Communicating to Support Teacher AwarenessSummaryChapter three supports your growing capacity tomentor through dialogue;communicate for understanding and build common ground;pay attention to communication basics;listen with attention and acknowledgement;give and receive feedback for reflective thinking;engage in a cycle of mentoring communication strategies;understand asynchronous communication basics$-$ online, virtual, and written feedback;reflect on conflict and repair relationships;recognize and support effective teacher dispositions; andpractice culturally responsive mentoring.Supporting teacher's awareness of their interactions with children require a mentor to understand how to use a cycle of communication basics effectively. $($see figure $3\mathrm{.}3)$ Communication choices that build upon common and culturally responsive understanding are at the heart of the process of meaning. These choices include facilitating observation, reflection, and application of new ideas to a setting, small transformations may be facilitated, one conversation at a time, by noticing effective teaching dispositions and making teachers aware of how they can build upon their existing assets to become the teachers they want to be$.$Your task for this chapter:$1.-$ Read the chapter$2.-$ Assignment: Write a $2$ page summary of the chapter and submit online under the assignment tab.Developing

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