Hubungan (komunikasi) dosen – mahasiswa
Posted by pwijayanto on September 13, 2008
dikutip dari: http://www.as.wvu.edu/~mbb/teaching/teacher.htm
TEACHER-STUDENT COMMUNICATION
* Overview: I’m not going to “defend” poor teaching. My goal is to help you understand why it might occur, and how to make it better.
A. Teacher-student communication is characterized by asymmetry & complementarity.
1. Asymmetrical & complementary relationships
a. Asymmetrical = not on equal footing, not equally in control of resources
b. Complementary = one provides, the other receives (in instructional the most obvious is teacher provides info which students receive; teacher provides rewards of grades, etc. But students also provide rewards, (attention, learning, audience)
c. This is a Business relationship with a definite outcome expected. Teaching is a job; Studenting is a job.
d. In any asymmetrical relationship, communication rule-following is always important – because both people can’t equally make up the rules as they do in casual, equal relationships
_ Rule = expectations of behavior that describe what is expected or prohibited in certain conditions
2. Formal vs. Informal Rules
a. Formal rules = written, documented, relatively unchanging. Should be in syllabus, student handbook, etc.
Students who do the “best” in class are not always the smartest academically, but they know how to be an effective student. They know the informal rules.
b. Informal rules = unwritten, not directly stated, may change greatly from class to class
3. Background on teaching perspective at the college level
a. how you get to be (& stay) a “professor” – may have little training in educational methods
b. performance expectations: “publish or perish” at PHD granting institutions
c. supply & demand in some fields
d. teaching load of graduate students
e. cost of low student/teacher ratio is prohibitive
4. How to improve the teacher-student communication situation.
a. assertiveness
b. warm cues
c. rule-following & documentation
d. reduce anonymity: establish a relationship with the professor, get to know him/her
TEACHER “MISBEHAVIORS” – THINGS TEACHERS DO THAT STUDENTS DISLIKE
Three major categories:
1. Incompetence – professor doesn’t have basic teaching skills
- boring lectures
- may rush thru material to get it done due to poor planning
- unfair or tricky tests
- delivery problems such as monotone, accents, speaking too low
- don’t seem to know material, can’t answer questions, vague material
2. Offensiveness – teachers can be mean & cruel
- humiliation of students, sarcasm
- use of verbal abuse, insults, rude
- condescending to students by acting superior & arrogant
- racist, sexist, sexual harassment
3. Indolence – stereotypic absent-minded professor
- fail to show up for class or late
- miss appointments
- forget test dates & neglect to collect papers
- late in returning papers & tests
- often make their classes too easy; not enough information or learning going on
