Establishing a positive communication between teachers and students is an extremely important issue in the success of educational activities. For this reason, it is an inevitable necessity for the teacher, who is the most effective element of classroom management, to have basic communication skills. The purpose of this study is to examine pre-service teachers' self-evaluations of the communication skills they want to develop within the scope of teacher-student interaction. The research was designed as a basic qualitative research. The participants of this study consist of pre-service teachers studying in different departments of the faculty of education at a state university in Turkey. The research was conducted with a total of 58 pre-service teachers, 47 of whom were female and 11 were male. Criterion sampling and maximum diversity sampling, which are among purposeful sampling methods, were used together to determine the participants. A structured interview form developed by the researchers was used in the study. The data of the research were analyzed using the descriptive analysis method. Accordingly, the data regarding the communication skills that pre-service teachers wanted to develop were summarized and interpreted. According to the results obtained from the research, pre-service teachers want to develop skills such as understanding and tolerant, empathy, effective use of Turkish language, oratory, respectfulness, effective use of body language, active listening and being free from prejudices. For this reason, it is recommended that other applied courses, especially “human relations and communication” course, be conducted based on interaction in a way to develop the mentioned skills of pre-service teachers.