Patterns of communications
Play Patterns |
Men- Ritual opposition
- Creates hierarchy.
- Games have winner/loser -.
- Status conscious
- Low competency is painful.
- Centered around doing rules important.
- Conflict an important participant of play
| Women - Ritual connection
- Creates cooperative Relationships.
- Best friends tell secrets.
- Relationship conscious
- Being an outcast is painful.
- Centered around talking.
- Rules not important
- Open conflict feared
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Uses of Language |
Men - Challenge
- Defect control attempts.
- Take center stage.
- Who is up/down?
- Am I
being pushed around?
| Women - Cement relationships
- Keep others from pushing isolating.
- Promote harmony.
- Are we close or distant?
- Am I being cast out?
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Characteristics of Talking |
Men - Goal oriented
- Thinks in head.
- Comfortable giving own credentials.
- Volunteers’ ideas.
- Nodding means “Yes I agree”
- Comfortable with open challenge
- Not likely to ask opinions of others.
- Important to be respected
| Women - Shows involvement, caring.
- Thinks out loud.
- Uncomfortable giving own credentials.
- Waits to be asked for ideas.
- Nodding means “Yes, I understand”
- Not comfortable with open challenge
- Likely to ask opinions of others.
- Important to be liked
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- Most men will emphasize the ways they are
more skilled then others. - Most women will emphasis the ways they are
the same
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Originally Published on https://boomersnotsenior.blogspot.com/
I served as a teacher, a teacher on Call, a Department Head, a District Curriculum, Specialist, a Program Coordinator, and a Provincial Curriculum Coordinator over a forty year career. In addition, I was the Department Head for Curriculum and Instruction, as well as a professor both online and in person at the University of Phoenix (Canada) from 2000-2010.
I also worked with Special Needs students. I gave workshops on curriculum development and staff training before I fully retired
