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Phone: 481-6558
Email: dixson@ipfw.edu
Objective: To create effective lessons for teaching high school speech in the following areas:
Unit One: Overcoming communication apprehension
Resources:
Understanding Communication Apprehension - McCroskey's concepualization
Questions:
Given this conceptualization of CA - what are the requirements for helping students in a speech class overcome this? What can you do (3-5 ideas/exercise etc.)?
Assignments:
- 2-4 page paper explaining CA and methods for helping students. Due date: July 6th
- Create a unit that is designed to help students overcome CA in the speech class. Due Date: July 13th.
Unit Two: Developing the nonverbal aspects of public speaking:
Resources
Dobkin and Pace Chapter
Questions
What nonverbal channels are important to public speaking?
What do students need to know about those channels to improve their public speaking?
What exercises/activities could they do to improve their nonverbal public speaking skills?
How will you grade the nonverbal aspects of public speaking?
Assignments:
- 2-3 page paper answering the above questions. Due Date: July 13
- Create a unit that is designed to help students both understand the importance/effects of nonverbal communication and to work on their nonverbal skills in the public speaking environment. Due Date: July 20.
Unit Three: Using groups successfully in the speech class
Resources
Team learning: Designing activities
Harvard Education Letter on Cooperative Learning
Berkeley's Perspective on Designing Cooperative Learning Activities
Questions
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using cooperative learning?
What is the difference between teams and other cooperative learning activities? When might each be appropriate?
What are some considerations when designing cooperative learning assignments/exercises? When grading them?
Assignments:
- 2-3 page paper answering the above questions. Due date: July 20.
- Create a unit that is designed to help students with their public speaking skills by using cooperative learning. Due Date: July 27
Unit Four: Evaluating speeches - different kinds
Resources:
Stevens/Levi, Introduction to Rubrics - Chapters 1, 2 and 3
Questions:
What are some reasons to use rubrics?
What do you need to consider in constructing a rubric?
What criteria would you use to evaluate a rubric?
Assignments:
- 1-2 page paper answering the above questions. Due date: July 27
- Create 4 rubrics for grading different types of oral presentations. Due date: August 3.
Unit Five: Teaching public speaking
Questions
What are the primary components of teaching public speaking (i.e., audience analysis, research methods, organization patterns, delivery aspects, introduction/conclusions) ?
What kinds of resources would be helpful for students to have access to?
Assignment:
- Develop a website/packet of handouts that students can use to find information about public speaking - choose 3-4 areas and develop a webpage/packet for each area. Due date: August 3
All nine assignments will be equally weighted and averaged for the course grade.
90 - 93% A- 94 - 100% A 80 - 82% B- 83 - 86% B 87 - 89% B+ 70 - 72% C- 73 - 76% C 77 - 79% C+ 60 - 62% D- 63 - 66%; D 67 - 69% D+ 0 - 59% F