How do you sound to your students

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How do you sound to your students? Linda
Glassburn, Assistant Professor Cuyahoga
Community College Cleveland, OH
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What is a great communicator?

• Are you?
• Prepared
• Committed
• Interesting
• Do you?
• Make students comfortable

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Prepared

• Assess the knowledge, interests and needs of your
  listeners.
• Review the lecture
• Prepare an outline
• Use your own material
• Be prepared

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Committed

• Be yourself
• Be your best
• Be persuasive
• Show your commitment
• Be committed

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Interesting

• Imagination
• Dont be boring
• Style versus substance
• Think creatively
• Be interesting, you must be committed

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Make students comfortable

• Appear comfortable
• Be positive
• Stay clear of bad news
• Accept students for who they are
• Be comfortable

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Do you use fillers when speaking?

• Do you use the word OK after every sentence?
• Do you use ahs and ums in your lecture?
• Do you use proper grammar during your lecture?

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Example of fillers

• The Course Technology 2009 Conference ah- is in
  Las Vegas ah- and this is ah- my first time
  in Vegas. I always ah- look forward to
  attending the conference ah- during my spring
  break. um- I wish all of you um- a wonderful
  time. ok-

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Impromptu speaking

• Will improve your speaking skills
• Make you aware of when its time for a break
• Make you ready to respond to any comment
• Get your students attention

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A Great Communicator

• Practice the way you present information to the
  students.
• Try different introductions.
• Exaggerate the message.
• Force students to use a specific vocabulary word
  during each class.

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The word of the day

• Philomath \FIL-uh-math\, nounA lover of
  learning a scholar.
• It is precisely for the Philomath's that
  universities ought to cater. --Aldous Huxley,
  Proper Studies
• "It's nothing to laugh about," he says. "Strange
  things happen in this country--things that
  philosophers and other Philomath's had never
  dreamed of." --Tomek Tryzna, Miss Nobody
• Philomath is from the Greek philomathes, "loving
  knowledge," from philos, "loving, fond"
  mathein, "to learn, to understand."

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Prepare yourself

• Opening
• Body
• Use the word Philomath
• Closing

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Speaking Roles

• Grammarian
• Count the uhs, ums and oks
• Note that the word of the day is used
• Timer
• Times each speaker for 2 minutes raising hand
  when there is 30 seconds left for the speaker to
  close
• Speaker
• Speaks impromptu for 2 minutes on a selected
  topic
• Evaluator
• Evaluates the speaker (up to 2 minutes) with a
  short summary, noting the positives and a
  statement for improvement

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Topics of the day

• Funniest class moment
• Favorite vacation
• Best class taught
• Why you selected to become a professor?
• Something that you wish to share with us

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Conclusion

• Be aware of how you sound to your students.
• Ask a peer to evaluate your lecture
• Practice impromptu speaking to improve your
  professional lectures.
• Attend Toastmasters or
• Dale Carnegie training
• Be the professional speaker.

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Internet Resources

• Dale Carnegie Training
• www.dalecarnegie.com
• Select, Search locations, select a state or zip
  code
• Toastmasters International
• www.toastmasters.org
• Select, find a location near you, enter United
  States, state or zip code
• American Communication Association
• http//www.americancomm.org
• National Speakers Association
• http//www.nsaspeaker.org

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Book Resources

• Genderspeak Men, Women, and the Gentle Art of
  Verbal SelfDefense. Suzette Haden Elgin, Ph.D.
  John Wiley Sons Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New
  York, NY 101580012. 1993.  ISBN 0471580163
• How to Read a Person Like A Book, Gerald
  Nierenberg. Original 1971.   Pocket Books
  Reissue edition (December 1982) ISBN
  0671735578
• Speaking Your Mind in 101 Difficult Situations.
  Don Gabor, Simon Schuster, New York. 1994 ISBN
  0671795058
• That's Not What I Meant! How conversational style
  makes or breaks relationships. Deborah Tannen.
  Ballantine Books Reprint edition (January 1991)
  ISBN 0345340906

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Book Resources

• How to Win Friends Influence People, Dale
  Carnegie, Simon Schuster, New York. 1982 ISBN
  0671723650
• When I say no, I feel guilty (bestseller on
  Assertiveness Training). Manuel J. Smith.
  Bantam/Non-Fiction Reissue edition (February 1,
  1975) ISBN 0553263900
• Will the Real Me Please Stand Up? 25 Guidelines
  for Good Communication.  John Powell, Thomas More
  Publishing Reprint edition (June 1995) ISBN
  88347316X
• You Just Don't Understand Women and Men in
  Conversation. Deborah Tannen. Original 1990. 
  Quill (July 24, 2001) ISBN 0060959622