Freshman Honors Public Speaking Class

For this paper I was required to observe three speeches from a freshman honors public speaking class. The students in this class were giving their first speeches of the year, apparently K-state has been busy tweaking the way in which we teach public speaking. Students were to give an informative speech. The speech had to have some sort of visual aid and had to be under five minutes in length.
I personally decided to work on the first three speakers. Before the speakers began their professor, Craig brown handed me a piece of paper. On the paper it was marked in almost a T-chart format. The top of the paper tells you the speech type, the semester, and class. Under that is where the T is formed, and on the top of the T it asks for the name of the performer and the time of their speech. The first column of the T-chart it says AG for attention getter, and the other side you can make notes. There is also a place on this paper to tally the number of sources. Mr. Brown explained all this, and because it was his class I used his method. Personally I would have preferred to just write down things my own way, but I am open to new experiences and obviously this has o for him. …show more content…
We discussed what went well, and what didn’t. We discussed their visual aids and if it helped them or not. I was also unaware up until that point that it this was the first speech given. This information shifted my initial thoughts on the performances as a whole. He said that he was pleased overall for their first go around and that already he has seen a major difference in some students from how they interact in class to their delivery of a speech. Mr. Brown then handed me a rubric to grade by, he said that that rubric can serve as the guidelines for grading, and that is more of the analytical approach that K-State has been leaning towards