Explain The Importance Of Developing Positive Relationships With Children, Young People And Adults

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Developing positive relationships by using effective communication is an important part of working with children and young people as well as working alongside adults. Positive relationships can benefit everyone in the classroom situation, it can encourage children to feel secure and able to participate, and to enable everybody to understand what is expected of them in the situation.Using positive communication is also a good way of being a positive role model to children and young people. If everybody feels happy and comfortable in a situation it helps to boost their ability and want to interact with each other. Ensuring that you use language that is understood by the person you are talking to and looking directly at them while you talk will …show more content…

To become a good communicator you first need to ensure you are a good listener, taking the time to listen to how and what a person is saying will help you to form your reply in a way that will ensure that the communication is effective and that everybody understands. Showing that you are interested in what they have to say will also help them to feel that you are interested in them further helping to develop your relationship. Remembering facts about their life and interests show that you have remembered something about them which can make them feel like you see them as important. This is a really effective way of helping to develop a childs confidence as well. You should make sure that you are clear in what the purpose of what you are saying is, ensure that what you are saying will be understood by the recipient to avoid any miss understanding. Showing consideration towards the other person will also help to develop a good relationship, consider things that may be happening in their life outside of the school environment as this could cause them to be feeling upset or angry which can affect how they come across and wether the feel like communicating at that time. There will be people who have different cultural background to you and it is important to show respect towards those beliefs and rituals. Its also important to have a sense of humour,