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This blog will take on a new dimension as I investigate and share what happens in a variety of child development areas in the field. My understanding of child development, as well as yours, will expand and deepen as personal experiences are compared to what is discovered through understanding diversity and identity. Newly acquired knowledge with information about child development from learning about this issue will add so much to “flavor” my own prior knowledge, as do new spices in food. This journey this should be exciting!

Saturday, February 2, 2013


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Operation Communication Evaluation

Well, we are evaluating our communicating styles and taking notice of the differences and similarities of how we evaluated ourselves and how others evaluated us. This is how I stack up:

I enjoy communicating with others and tend to prefer listening to others. I am also non-confrontational and try to look for ways to communicate that present less “static”

The evaluation of my communication as given by someone else says that I am confident and comfortable with speaking in a large group. I am also confident with talking to others I do not know. I am viewed as being respectful even when angered in conversation; My husband says different, however.

This did not come as a surprise but my conversation is seen as informational, as in I do not engage in much small talk. I like to listen to others but I have little patience for those that usurp and dominate a conversation. I will make excuses to escape!!! My score read as action oriented by another.

I can say that the greatest insight about this week’s learning about communication is how random and mindless our thoughts can be when we first encounter people. As we speak we learn more of the people we are speaking to and begin to file yet another experience in our minds to fit additional patterns of schema. When dealing with our students and parents as education professionals, everything we say is measured by them.  

When making mindless assumptions based on past experiences it is important that we let the children and the parent speak to us and tell us what they desire for their children. The parents depend so much on our being professional in every way.

This is eye opening, good stuff I tell you!

My Scores

Score; Communication Anxiety 37 - mild
Score; Verbal Aggressiveness 68 – moderate
Score;  Group 1 – people oriented



Family Evaluated Score; communication Anxiety – 33 – Low

Family Evaluated Score;  Verbal Aggressiveness – 69 – Significant (according to my husband)

Friend Evaluated Score:  Listening styles – Group 2 – Action Oriented


2 comments:

  1. The evaluation from your husband on verbal aggressiveness is sort of comical. I can see how a husband may say that about a wife. Is it not true that we tend to be more hyped up with the one's we love? Thanks for sharing!

    Josie Zbaeren

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  2. Shelia, I am not confident and comfortable speaking in a large group of people in a meeting. I will be so nerve in front the people that I problem freeze up. But you have good nerve to speak to people in a large group that is good.

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