1. The Teacher’s Silent Language
Learning to Teach Non-Verbally
Dr. Thomas G. Ryan
Faculty of Education
Nipissing University
North Bay, ON.
Canada

3. Level 1 Dress – Costume – Uniform & Sensing – 5 Inputs

4. Listening – Eyes/Ears/Silent

5. Sensing – Angst!

6. Calm – Ready – Happy “Wait Time”

7. I like my look so, I feel good - Lets Learn!

8. Student or Teacher Dress?

9. Level 2 Posture – Rigid, Tense, or Relaxed

10. I have to come back?

11. Anger – Walk away – teacher time out!

12. Level 3 Gestures – Signals Eyes – Gaze - Stare

13. Teacher – “EYE” – No/OK!

14. Teaching – Mask?

15. Classroom Signals ?

16. Start ~ Stop signals?

17. “Get Out”

18. Level 4 Proxemics – Distance ‘Personal, Professional’

19. What is your distance?

20. Level 5 Voice – Paralanguage - Pitch, Tone, Pause, Disfluences Sarcasm, Stammering – um!

21. Intensity – The Yeller!

22. Too Much Talk !

23. Level 6 –Touch Too Much!

24. Hands Off

25. Teacher: The Observer

26. Impressions – Image OK?

27. What do you see and think?

28. In sum -watch people touch.
Friendly Touch
Helpful Touch
Attentional Touch
Incidental Touch
“Guys use helpful touch”
“Women use friendly touch”
Richmond & McCroskey, 1995

29. Thank – you!
Questions
Thoughts
Reflections