In this article, we present five points to consider when looking to improve your communication skills as an important life skill.
How to Improve Your Communication Skills
Welcome to our kitchen to classroom series where we will look at five topics in which the kitchen inspires education. This article will focus on the importance of communication skills both inside and outside the classroom.
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The five points are:
- Audience
- Word Choice
- Intonation
- Clarity
- Body Language
Get a sneak peak at how to improve your communication skills by watching this video below!
How to Communicate from Kitchen to Classroom
Communication in the kitchen adds to the enjoyment of cooking! Communicating how delicious the meal you ate is one example! It can also be in how you teach someone how to make that recipe into an amazing meal for all to enjoy!
In the classroom, improving language skills through the four means of communication (listening, speaking, reading, writing) is one of the most important goals for both teachers and students. With the right choice of words, communication in any form will always be at its best.
Improve Your Communication Video
Watch this video below to see how communication in the kitchen can help build our language skills in the classroom.
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Improving your communication skills will also help you to better understand and handle your studies since you will be able explain with clarity what you know.
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Ways To Build Your Communication Skills
We now look at the five points to consider when building your communication skills to help make life more enjoyable inside and outside the classroom.
I. Audience
Before you think about choosing the words you will speak or write, consider who will be listening or reading what you have to say!
Your audience is a very important point to consider since if you don’t consider who will benefit from what you have to say, you might as well talk to a wall.
II. Word Choice
Words matter, so be careful how you put them together!
Kindness also is the first thing you should consider when choosing the words to say. The golden rule (treat others the way you want to be treated) applies inside and outside the classroom.
The words you choose to speak should be to make what you feel and what you think known to others, all while considering that you speak with the intention to benefit others (your audience) and not yourself.
And if you can’t find anything nice, you can simply restrict your words to be about the weather.
III. Intonation
Intonation is the rising and falling of the voice when a person speaks.
It’s what comedians (and teachers) use to bring laughter into people’s lives!
Intonation is an important point to consider in speaking because it adds to what a person says. What it adds is an implicit (unspoken) meaning to the explicit meaning the person speaking is trying to give to others.
In other words, the intonation we use while speaking lets others in on the emotions we feel as we speak, so they should recognize then how to respond in the right way.
IV. Clarity
If people don’t easily understand what we are trying to communicate, then we need to check our word choice, and intonation.
Clarity in how we communicate is important to show so that misunderstanding do not happen.
There are a few things to check to see if you give clarity when you speak;
- first, is the information easy to recall/follow
- second, is the word choice appropriate
- third, is the intonation choice appropriate for easy communication
V. Body Language
Using one’s voice is only one way of communicating. Body language is a very important point to consider when communicating since a person’s actions can ‘speak volumes’.
A person’s body language can show others if they are interested or not, or a whole other range of emotions.
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Final Thoughts...
Improving your communication skills inside and outside the classroom means you are aware that the points mentioned in this article help make a more positive impact on yourself and others in your daily life.
I hope you enjoyed reading this article and found it useful for building good communication skills that will help with your educational goals in learning for years to come!
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