Teaching Public Speaking

Spent nearly 20 years teaching public speaking and introduction to communication classes both full-time and part-time on the college level. I have worked with many of the textbooks and with a variety of types of supervisors. The last class I taught over a five-year period was an introduction to communication course with a focus on public speaking but it also contained units on interpersonal communication and group dynamics. I have professional experience as a journalist and for the last year have been working with a partner (professional journalist, teacher, journalism M.A.) to develop lesson plans and Prezis for a variety of university-level journalism courses. Those lesson plans are being posted here as well.

I like a class that uses a variety of examples, from movie and TV clips, to current news stories, to interesting tidbits from history. The lesson plans incorporate videos, discussion questions, photographs and brief stories taken from a number of sources.

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Master's degree in speech communication. Undergraduate degree in sociology and math. Professional experience as a newspaper reporter, copy editor and page designer.

I have already set up a blog site collecting and describing many of the activities and videos that I used in public speaking and interpersonal communication classes along with general advice from my own experiences. Find the blog at teachingpublicspeaking.wordpress.com. I have already posted lesson plans for the topics I found most challenging when I began teaching public speaking. If you are looking for lesson plan information on any additional public speaking or interpersonal communication topics, please let me know.