Psychological Communication Between Teachers and Students

Book excerpt: Psychological communication between teachers and students is the essence of formal education. This book focuses not only on analyzing problems from the perspective of teachers but also from the perspective of students and provides educators with ways to communicate effectively with their students. It is necessary for teachers to be concerned with cultivating and stimulating the internal motivation of students’ development. This book discusses the significance of psychological communication and effective communication between teachers and students, the psychological preconditions of communication between them and strategies that teachers can utilize to communicate more effectively with their students. In addition, the author provides a large number of cases, psychological tests, and exercises to help teachers gain a better understanding of themselves and their students and to find more effective working methods, while establishing a democratic, equal, and harmonious interpersonal relationship between them. Communication between teachers and students is an essential and indispensable component during the process of teaching and learning. This book thus will be of interest to teachers, students, and researchers of educational psychology, education management and those who are interested in teachers’ professional development in general.