Teaching and Learning to Communicate: Methods for Developing K-20 Students’ Presentation and Communication Skills

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Author(s): Cynthia J. Benton (SUNY Cortland, USA)and Kathleen A. Lawrence (SUNY Cortland, USA)
Copyright: 2013
Pages: 21
Source title: Handbook of Research on Teaching and Learning in K-20 Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Viktor Wang (Florida Atlantic University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4249-2.ch034

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Instructional Design

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Effective presentation skills and communication competence are important developmental qualities for teachers’ professional success and K-12 students’ learning. Yet identifying the definitive qualities and methods to practice and evaluate those skills has had minimal emphasis in current education programs. In addition to traditional abilities such as making clear presentations, speaking well, and articulating an argument, K-20 learners are faced with an explosion of options for accessing, organizing, and presenting information using technology. This study documents methods for college-level instruction and assessment of presentation skills, which serve as evidence of preservice teachers' readiness to demonstrate effective communication skills for K-12 student learning. The report summarized in this chapter tracks two years of creating and evaluating methods for promoting professional presentation and communication skills, and includes rubrics focused on the development and evaluation of those skills.

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