Communication Models:

The communication model your parents use is the same one they learned from their parents and teachers. It's also the same model your education & speech-communication professors used to teach you how to teach. I know of no university or college speech communication curriculum that offers mastery in more than one communication model.

The prevailing communication model in our community is the one that educators use to beg or strike for funds and salary increases. It's used because teachers have not been required to master any other model and therefore they have no choice.

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. One of the interesting things about a communication model is that it's virtually invisible. Like water to a fish most don't know or see their model except through its results. The prevailing model guarantees, yes guarantees, that some students will not turn in their homework on time with legible penmanship.

This topic will allow you to become more familiar with the term communication model. It eventually will support you in having more than one model to choose from throughout the day or even within a given conversation.

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