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Body Language for Competent Teachers

Nonverbal skills are invaluable for teachers in ‘getting the message across’ to classes and

understanding the messages pupils are sending—messages of interest or messages of

confrontation, which are first expressed non-verbally. With increasing interest in

classroom competence, teachers need to understand the use of gesture, posture, facial

expression and tone of voice. These have become especially important for effective

teachers in a climate where respect has to be earned rather than coming automatically

with the job.

Each chapter of the book has training exercises related to its theme for the new teacher;

answers are provided at the end of each chapter. The last chapter is addressed to staff

responsible for staff training and development, especially in the school context, and

includes suggestions for half- and whole-day courses.

Sean Neill has been carrying out research on non-verbal communication at the

University of Warwick over the last ten years, and has taught, and published numerous

research papers and an academic book, Classroom Nonverbal Communication.

Chris Caswell is a member of the Senior Management Team at Myton School,

Warwick and has wide-ranging teaching experience. He has taught school-based courses

on classroom non-verbal skills at Myton and other schools, and related courses in other

institutions, as well as counselling many inexperienced colleagues.

Body Language for Competent

Teachers

Sean Neill and Chris Caswell

London and New York

First published 1993

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2005.

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Permission is hereby granted to reproduce

the materials in this book for non-commercial

classroom and other educational use.

A catalogue reference for this title is available from the British Library

ISBN 0-203-39269-8 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-39551-4 Adobe e-Reader Format

ISBN 0-415-06660-3 (Print Edition)

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Neill, S. R. St. J. (Sean Rupert St. John), 1945

Body language for competent teachers / Sean Neill and Chris

Caswell.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p.) and indexes.

ISBN 0-415-06660-3

1. Nonverbal communication in education—Great Britain—Problems,

exercises, etc. 2. Teachers—Training of—Great Britain—Problems.

exercises, etc. 3. Interaction analysis in education. I. Caswell,

Chris, 1950- . II. Title.

LB1033.5.N44 1992

371.1 ′ 22—dc20 92–24744

CIP

For our children

Clare, Richard, Riki, Rupert, Samantha and Suzannah

and their teachers

Celia and Liz

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