Reviews 15 documents in the ERIC system on the basic course in speech communication covering philosophy, research, teaching approaches, and challenges. (PD)

Uses ERIC documents to examine ethics in forensics, media, and communication research. Considers implications for speech communication teachers. (PD)

Presents results of a survey of Association for Communication Administration (ACA) members concerning their awareness and use of the 1995 ACA Definition of the Field of Communication. Finds that 40% of administrators who responded were unaware of the definition. Urges the need to further promote the definition of the field. (NH)

Presents a sampling of documents from the ERIC datebase on the role of gender in communication. Includes documents in the following categories: instructional strategies, secondary school studies, gender and language choices, intercultural situations, and communication practices. (PD)

Within each speech communication class, the teacher can more easily realize the overriding goals of general education by expanding the horizons of the assignment using the method of forced choice. Forced choice operates within the assumptions that the spectrum of structure helps reach a more thorough set of educational goals, and giving the…

This paper argues that the individualized education plan (IEP) mandated by Public Law 94-142 for mainstreamed handicapped students provides educators with a model for the future--when all students will have a right to an IEP. The paper first discusses the characteristics of an IEP, suggesting that it should ideally identify the child's present…

Television debates provide a powerful stimulus for speech communication classes as students focus on the effectiveness of debate in the political forum. This report reviews ERIC documents on the nature, quality, and format of television debates. (PD)

This paper proposes a high school curriculum that incorporates education in oral communication as an essential graduation skill--a skill taught systematically by trained instructors in a communication course. The paper points out, however, that other innovative arrangements are possible as long as the instruction is systematic; follows…

Reviews publications and documents from "Resources in Education" useful to speech communication teachers in curriculum planning or classroom instruction. (PD)

Linking teaching portfolios to the scholarship of teaching can help the teaching profession in general (and communication departments in particular) and can help expand the ways to document what teachers do to help students learn. E. Boyer's report "Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate" provides a structure and…

Presents abstracts of 17 documents from "Resources in Education" on programed instruction, personalized system of instruction, and computer-assisted instruction. (PD)

Aware of the societal problems stemming from a lack of communication skills, the American public is pressing for instruction in speaking and listening in the schools. This response is reflected in the speaking and listening competency recommendations in many national reform reports. Such reports include "A Nation at Risk" by the National…

Suggestions for the development of a national perspective on the place of functional communication competencies in the speech communication curriculum are presented in this paper. The first section of the paper describes current trends in functional communication curriculum development, including the theoretical perspectives underlying various…

Presents abbreviated abstracts of selected documents from the 1979-81 issues of "Resources in Education." Covers the following categories: research studies; analysis systems for the classroom; nonverbal communication in the library; nonverbal deception studies; and teaching nonverbal communication. (PD)

An assignment was developed that requires each student in a communication class to observe the dynamic of classroom communication. In this way, both the students and the professor receive feedback about various communication roles both can take. Systematic observation systems can be defined as part of classificatory systems that record certain…