Resolving Interpersonal Conflict

In the Burmese culture, teachers are the same level as parents. Students love, respect and frighten their teachers especially in primary and middle school level. Parents give teachers the trust for their children in school time.
There is a student ‘z’ who is studying at Grade 6 (start of middle school level). ‘z’ ‘s parents are rich enough that they give their child private tuition on English language, even with a native speaker!
During one of the English classes in school, ‘z’ ’s teacher, “Mr.A” ,is trying to explain his pupils on a particular topic. When “Mr.A” is pronouncing an English word, he hears a soft laughing sound. He continues explaining others English words and hears some kind of laughing sound. He tries to find out during his teaching and finally spots that ‘z’ is making chuckle. Mr.A blames ‘z’ for making chuckle and not paying attention to his teaching. The similar situation happens again in next class and this time, Mr.A gets so upset and presumes that ‘z’ is disrespectful and demands ‘z’ to bring his parents to school and meet up with him.
What happens to ‘z’ is that he is not disrespectful. He just cannot control himself when he hears Mr.A’s pronunciation of some English words. Mr.A, who has more exposure to Burmese language and come from a rural village, sometimes cannot pronounce some English words correctly. His temperament is some sort of impatient type.
When ‘z’ ’s parents finally finds out what has happened at school after carefully asking out their child, they try to carefully think how to resolve the problem. If you were a parent of ‘z’, what and how would you do to resolve the problem? What and how would you say to your child? You are also afraid that if you tell the teacher directly about his wrong pronunciation, he would feel ashamed, and in later classes, he would not be careful to your son or scold and blame your son all the times whenever there is a chance. Should the third party, such as another colleague teacher or even a headmaster/headmistress be involved in this matter to resolve?

Effective Communication Skills

In the 21^st century, people say that “the world becomes a village”. This implies that we are in the age of information technology (IT) and it is within our range to be accessible to any type of information, news and media. The challenge is how to communicate each other (from small committees to multinational corporations across different countries) using modernized technologies. Effective communication becomes of paramount importance to be successful in different areas; from volunteer community service to international organization, especially in the IT age.
In my opinion, effective communication skills are the most basic foundation to be successful in a way as to have more useful and good friends, to increase and gain the interested knowledge and to make prosperous of the population and hence the country.  If you can deliver a message clearly, concisely and in an attractive way, the receiver will be able to do things without confusion and this can make to increase the efficiency of the productivity.  Effective communication can make us to build good relationship not only in organizations but also in family to make the bond stronger.
If two countries want to negotiate on a particular topic, the way the two countries communicate impact a lot on becoming fruitful of the negotiation. When the leaders fail to communicate effectively, the more unresolved problems are occurred. Hence, people are trying to be a more effective communicator nowadays. And I also want to possess more effective communications skills so that to get a better chance of both a successful career and building up and raising my country better in a professional way.