Communication Models:

The communication model, the way you and your parents communicate, is the same one they learned from their parents, teachers and clergy. It's also the same model education & speech-communication professors use to teach teachers how to communicate subject matter. With both a B.A. and an M.A. in speech-communication I know of no university or college speech-communication curriculum that requires Leadership Training or proficiency with more than one communication model for its education or health care majors.

The present communication model used throughout the country (referred to as the Adversarial Communication Model) is the one that educators use to pathetically beg or strike for funds and salaries. It's used because educators have not been required to master any other model and therefore they have no choice other than to blame and complain. I.e. "@$%&* parents won't attend parent-student-teacher meetings."

It's the same communication model that many former "C" students, who now earn $90K per year as a dockworker, unwittingly use to keep teachers stuck at less than $40K. This wage disparity is a profound powerful non-verbal acknowledgment that's not being gotten.  The prevailing model guarantees, yes guarantees, that 25% of the nation's college freshmen require remedial composition and comprehension courses to learn what our K-12 "teachers" failed to communicate.

This topic will allow you to become more familiar with the term communication model. It will support you in creating a communication model that produces the desired results. I.e. Homework handed in on time and neatly. Communication is a function of intention, of intending that another recreate and support your intention.

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