Section Name
Directing the Basic Course
Abstract
Basic speech courses enroll many students. Basic course instructors are often under great pressure to succeed and to be effective. Because of the numbers of students and the pressures, they experience many problems. Five are discussed in this article: rigor versus leniency, independence versus dependence, theory versus skills, being close versus being distant, and objective evaluation versus subjective evaluation. Solutions to these problems are likely to affect both student and instructor motivation. Solutions are also likely to affect how students perceive instructors. That's why, with respect to basic course instructors, you have to have solutions for the problems.
Recommended Citation
Weaver, Richard L. II and Cotrell, Howard W.
(1989)
"Teaching Basic Courses: Problems and Solutions,"
Basic Communication Course Annual: Vol. 1, Article 16.
Available at:
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/bcca/vol1/iss1/16
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