This course offers excellent information and recommendations that focus on challenges I faced last semester teaching a Speech Communication course. I intend to adapt my syllabus, Canvas modules, classroom instruction and grading methods to reflect what I learned.

Teaching speech requires a great deal of student presentation performance development. While students' knowledge of communication theory and the history of rhetoric best practices are essential, students improve their verbal and nonverbal skills through practice. Maintaining motivation, while students engage in group discussions, research, outlining and delivery, is especially critical in Speech Communication courses.