Verbal And Nonverbal Communication In High School

Introduction

Through out my English classes in high school, I lacked the confidence in my writings and group projects. In my written projects, I would dread peer review due to being scared that my classmates would judge my writing. I also would view every critique they gave as insulting me instead of trying to help me better communicate my ideas in my paper. During peer review sessions, I would be so wrapped up in the idea that my peers did not like aspects of my paper, that I would ignore the positive feedback they gave me. This lack of confidence in my writings also were evident in oral presentations and projects. I would avoid making eye contact when speaking and I would talk as fast as I could in order to be done with my part of the presentation. This lack of effective non-verbal communication would overshadow the ideas and value in my presentation. …show more content…
Throughout high school, I knew my projects were to the best of my ability and there were something to be proud of, but once I started to present my ideas, my nonverbal communication would suggest that I was not proud of my work. I addressed this very issue in my first artifact for the class. I took the artifact as an opportunity to address to my instructor my goal for the semester and to create a video that would serve as a starting place for my continued improvement in oral and non-verbal communication. The artifact allowed for me to determine the root of my fear of presenting and address the things I hoped to improve through out the class, such as using filler words, such as “um”, “uh”, and “like”. Due to the project being due the first few weeks of school, I was able to document my oral and non-verbal communication before I started my road towards improvement. It would be able to serve as a mode of reflection towards the end of the semester in order to judge how far I had improved and grown in