Interaction and Communication in the Process of Education and Shared Common Area in the Classroom

Abstract

School is an institution that plays a significant role in a child's life. Being an active employee in this institution, a teacher should be democratic, tender, patient, reliable and humorous to his/her students during the interaction and communication processes so that the teaching and learning processes are affected positively. It is important to create a common living space in the classroom for students that have different family, economic, cultural and living backgrounds in order to achieve better motivation and learning. In the common living space in the classroom, the teacher creates a common living space with the students while the students do the same thing among themselves and accordingly a common synergy is created. Therefore this descriptive study aims to describe a common living space in the classroom by developing a common living space model in Caliskan and Karadag classrooms. ********** The most important component of education is a student. Teachers' interactions, ways of communication and verbal-non--verbal behaviors, class management and activities affect not only students' behaviors but also teaching system directly (Acikgoz, 1996). It is inevitable for teachers who are responsible for the education industry to have a policy and behavior. A teacher who always interacts with students is responsible for planning activities of teaching and application. Being a qualified teacher plays an important role in providing sit's quality disposed behavior (Gokce, 1999). Interaction simplifies the process of communication between teachers and students and provides them with the formation of a shared common area and with the enlargement of a shared women's area. During the enlargement of distracters can be easily destroyed though communication. Communication is the key of education, teaching and learning and it affects the life of an individual throughout his/her whole life. As communication is an important concept related to all sciences (communication is a multi-disciplined concept) it has lots of definitions (Caliskan & Karadag, 2006). For example, in a definition, it is said that communication is a process in which two or more people share the same meanings (Yahn, 2001), which emphasizes life is based on an information transfer and the without communication no life will be available (Balkan, 1988). Education and learning is a part of life. In this process, communication helps determining negative changes in behaviors and expressing ideas and thoughts in mind as well as affecting others. Today, the importance of communication increasingly rises because it is the fundamental tool of information transfer. That is why this era is called Information era. Individuals can form shared common areas through knowledge, technology and interaction. When the concepts of education, teaching and teacher are of concern, forming shared common areas is compulsory. This study is a descriptive study which includes interaction, communication and shored common life areas. It is a theoretical study concerning shared common life areas inside the classroom. Interaction and Communication Everyone must communicate. But teachers need communication more than anyone. It is an obligation. The only to communication is through interaction. Teachers should affect students are in order to interact; they should be democratic, tolerant, smiling, lovable, patient and reliable. If they want to teach in an effective way in the process of learning and teaching, they should interact properly. However, teachers can make use of communication as long as they learn communication factors. The reliability of the source is the most important factor in the process of communication. When people receive messages from the source and then send the feedback, they in fact, complete the process of interaction even without other supportive messages. If the sources, is reliable, communication grocers will, of course be completes more easily (Yalin, 2001). …