setting the stage for success: saving students from themselves

Setting the Stage For Success: Saving Students from Themselves

Inherited Problems

• Little time spent on oral communication instruction

Presentational skillsDiscussion skillsSmall group communication skillsListening skills

Inherited Problems

• Little time spent on oral communication instruction

• Instructional time + practice + thoughtful evaluation + practice…repeat = Effectiveness + Perceived Importance

“I think I should get a C for just standing up.”

Students don’t…

– Take oral communication seriously– Know what effective oral communication looks or

sounds like and why– Know how to prepare for it or why they should

prepare for it

The Bottom Line In academic and professional communication, if the

message is not attended to, understood, or remembered, the whole endeavor is a waste of time.

Similarities With Written Communication

• Thesis and purpose

Similarities With Written Communication

• Thesis and purpose

• Organization• Introduction, body, conclusion• Clear relationship among main points and supporting material

Similarities With Written Communication• Thesis and purpose


• Supporting Material• Information limit• Enough accurate information from appropriate and credible sources to

accomplish purpose• Need for citation

Similarities With Written Communication• Thesis and purpose


• Supporting Material• Information limit• Enough accurate information from appropriate and credible sources to

accomplish purpose• Need for citation

•Style •Clear•Engaged•Interesting•Appropriate for context and audience

Differences from Written CommunicationReal Time Delivery

• Must get and hold audience’s attention



• Must be memorable




• Must be immediately understandable





• Must be organized explicitly and transparently

Differences from Written Communication:Real Time Delivery


• Must be easy to remember


• Must be organized explicitly and transparently

• Limited amount of material can be presented

Differences from Written Communication:Delivered with Voice and Body

• Can distract and confuse attention or aid in attention, clarity, and memory


• Can aid in attention, clarity, and memory or distract and confuse attention.

• Can make a speaker seem competent, honest and attractive or incompetent, evasive, and awkward



• Can make a speaker seem competent, honest and attractive or incompetent, evasive, and awkward

• Can only be developed through physical rehearsal



• Can make a speaker seem competent, honest and attractive or incompetent, evasive, and difficult to attend to


• Takes longer to develop



• Can make a speaker seem competent, honest and attractive or incompetent, evasive, and difficult to attend to


• Takes longer to develop

• Can be profoundly affected by performance anxiety

Students Need To…

• Understand the process• Be able to recognize an effective performance• Take the process seriously• Treat the process strategically• Prepare carefully and effectively over a period

of time

Four Keys to Success

Outlines

IntroductionOutline Model - “Cryonics” by Jayne Richtor

Thesis: Although cryonics has moved in recent years from science fiction to scientific reality, it is still far from foolproof.

Introduction

The time is now. Imagine your mother or father has suffered a heart attack. Deprived of its vital blood supply, a part or their heart is dying. Or imagine your grandmother or grandfather lying nearly motionless in their nursing home bed. Advanced age, complicated by pneumonia, is about to end their lives. Or imagine a close friend has just entered the hospital with a massive system-wide infection. AIDS has left their body ravaged by multiple diseases. For most people, these circumstances would herald the end of life. Today’s medicine can no longer help them. But all of you may be able to meet again in the far future. Does this sound like science fiction? Perhaps. But it may one day be possible. How? Through the process of cryonics. Cryonics is the process of freezing human beings after death in the hope that medical science will be able to revive them in the future. Intrigued by the prospect of being cryonically frozen, I’ve spent some time researching the subject of cryonics. After reading dozens of newspaper and magazine articles, I would like to give you a brief overview of the history, methods, and future of cryonics. Let’s start with the development of cryonics.

BodyBody

I. Cryonics has a very interesting history. A. Notion of preserving people after death very old

1. Ben Franklin said “immersed in a cask of Madiera wine…”(qtd. in Jones 43 )

2. Featured in science fiction novels, movies, and magazine and newspaper articles. B. Remained science fiction until 1964 1. Robert Ettinger’s The Prospect of Immortality (Jones 12) 2. James H. Bedford – first human cryonically frozen, Jan. 12, 1967 (Anders 22) C. Has steadily increased in popularity 1. Four cryonic institutions in U.S. (United States 1193) 2. 80 people have been cryonically frozen (Seely 25) 3. 800 people have signed up to be frozen when they die (Seely 26) II. When a person who has signed up to be cryonically frozen dies, a specific procedure must be carried out. (Seely 54-60) A. Person must decide whether the whole body or the head should be frozen B. If the whole body, it must be preserved. 1. Immediately after death, connected to heat-lung machine 2. Chemicals circulated to prevent tissue damage 3. Cold packs used to reduce internal temperature C. If only the head is used 1. Head surgically detached and preserved in separate container 2. Why someone would choose to preserve only head a. body may be in very poor condition b. hope that science would be able to create new body in future D. Once head or body is ready, process proceeds 1. Cryoprotectorants circulated to reduce cell damage

Checklists

Introduction:

Did you begin with a something that will get your audience’s attention?

Did you make the topic of your presentation clear?

Did you preview all of the presentation’s main points explicitly at the end of the introduction?

Body:

Are all of your main points clearly stated?

Are your main points closely related to one another?

Are your main points mutually exclusive?

Do you support all your main points with expert opinions, examples, statistics, definitions, explanations, facts, descriptions, or analogies?

Are there enough of the above to support all your main points well?

Is all of the information above accurate and clear?

Is the above information all from appropriate sources?

Have you made notes of the sources in order to cite them in your presentation delivery?

Is your organization clear enough that your audience will know exactly when you move from point to point and exactly how all the supporting information connects to your main points?

Have you included material which will draw and hold your audience’s attention throughout the body?

Agendas

Group AgendasINQ 120: The Examined Life

Group Agenda Report

Date: Place: Members Present: Tasks accomplished during this meeting and members who led work for each task: Tasks to be accomplished during next meeting and responsible members for each task:

Group Member Evaluations

1. What specific task roles did this member play in the group process? What did this person do to help the group complete its tasks?

2. Did this member work well with other members of the group? (Give specific examples of behavior.) 3. Was this member critically open-minded and did

he/she center conflicts on issues? (Give specific examples of behavior.)

4. Was this member well-prepared and positive? (Give examples of behavior.) 5. Did this member participate actively in the work of

the group? (Give examples of behavior.)

6. What were this member's overall strengths? 7. How could this member improve?

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