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School' Transformation, Teachers' Social skills and their Development by Video Interaction Guidance

ABSTRACT Contemporary educational approaches comprehend the school as a complex social organism, where relations between participants play the main role, first of all relations between a teacher and pupils. The level and the quality of these relations determine the effectiveness of the education, the class and school climate. The term 'well-educated' doesn't mean only the skill of reading, writing and counting any more, but rather the ability to hold the job out, be an active citizen and the skills to establish relations. The success of men depends more on his/her ability of communication and positive interaction. The aim of the present discourse is to give a brief outline of, the possibilities of using video interaction guidance (VIG) to the development of social and communication skills of teachers and pupils. Video recording and feedback has been refined in the Netherlands over the last twenty five years as a method of intervention with children who have social and emotional difficulties or who experience forms of communication break-down. Positive video feedback techniques have been used in the context of families and schools to facilitate communication and meet children’ s emotional needs. This paper describes the theoretical basis of VIG and the background to its use in schools as part of an evaluation of its implementation within a variety of educational contexts. Results of researches suggest that this provide a valuable opportunity for personal, professional and social development for both teachers and pupils across a range of contexts. These investigations have shown that this approach improves the communication skills and self-esteem of both adults and children, therefore, enhancing effective learning and teaching and minimising negative contact, e.g. misunderstanding, inattention, conflict.

school transformation; social skills; interaction and communication; feed-back and self-reflection; effective learning and teaching; video interaction guidance (VIG)

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