Posted on 09/13/2018 1:13:08 PM PDT by C19fan
or many middle- and high-school students, giving an in-class presentation was a rite of passage. Teachers would call up students, one by one, to present their work in front of the class and, though it was often nerve-racking, many people claim it helped turn them into more confident public speakers.
“Coming from somebody with severe anxiety, having somebody force me to do a public presentation was the best idea to happen in my life,” one woman recently tweeted. According to a recent survey by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, oral communication is one of the most sought-after skills in the workplace, with over 90 percent of hiring managers saying it’s important. Some educators also credit in-class presentations with building essential leadership skills and increasing students’ confidence and understanding of material.
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Here is the response, It is very simple. Do your assignment or you make “F” . If you make enough “Fs” get your ass out of our school that we are paying for.
Will they? I am no longer so sure about that. Mob rule looks to be winning out over tradition, and Constitutional protections.
Just let them text their presentations to their classmates or just post them on reddit since they are incapable of speech.
Mankind is really earthrocketing downward as fast as it can.
Full Title:
Teens Are Protesting In-Class Presentations
Some students say having to speak in front of the class is an unreasonable burden for those with anxiety and are demanding alternative options.
Or post them on FaceButt....................
““Coming from somebody with severe anxiety, having somebody force me to do a public presentation was the best idea to happen in my life,” one woman recently tweeted.”
Gotta agree with her. One of the best moves I made in college was to (bite the bullet and) take a public speaking class.
Now we understand why they want us to reverse global warming so badly...they’re afraid they’re gonna melt!
Hand them a piece of chalk and they’ll eat it....
Its not the students, its the parents. There are some extremely fragile, entitled, annoying helicopter parents out there.
These kids can't write cogent, simple English prose, they can't spell, and now they are refusing to speak in front of a class?
They can't do math, don't know any factual history ( not even recent history! ), but still have THE highest view of themselves ( falsely! ) of any generation.
This bunch of morons shan't be functioning adults ever.
Nothing wrong with hating it. I always despised it. Still do. I’m certainly not going to spin a yarn how it made me soooooo much more confident blah blah blah.
But hey, welcome to being a student. Do it early. Fake your way through it, get you B-, and enjoy 2 days of just listening to everyone else do theirs.
I can remember having to do this. We also had a Junior Class Public Speaking contest. I was a nervous wreck putting my paper together. The day of my presentation, I almost barfed I was so nervous, but I had very kind teacher that encouraged me and coached me along. I did just fine. But the experience instilled in me a desire to overcome that “fear”. I didn’t not want to be held back or defeated by it. Later on, I joined a ToastMasters group and thru that organization, I was able to overcome and control the fear of public speaking. Yeah, I still get nervous, but I’m in control of it and confident of my presentations.
As one poster above stated: “Do the assignment or get an “F”. Enough “Fs” and you’re outta here...for good.
It’s like trying to help a trapped animal: It may peck and bite at ya, but in the end, it’s for their own good and they’re set free.
These poor, little snowflakes have no idea about how life really is. They’re in for a huge rude awakening.
Every student HAD to take speech when I went to college. Can’t believe I got only a B.
Very few people like doing that, but doing it is a big step toward removing the fear of it. It also provides an example of how other things people fear can be overcome. My son, who just started college, has actual anxiety that is a side affect of a chronic ailment, and was anxious about having to present in one of his classes. Well, he did it, and he noticed that all the other students’ hands shaking as they held their notes, and after that it became not such a big deal to him. He isn’t completely over it, but one step at a time...
I didn’t like having to do it when I was in school and I was nervous about it. But now, as a teacher, speaking to groups of people is something I do every day, without notes or prepared text, and I could hold forth like freaking Fidel Castro if I had to.
Whaaaaa!
Too many teens never learned to speak to people because they live in their video games or cells.
I absolutely hated that in highschool. BFD. It's an absolutely necessary part of one's education. The only way to learn how to give a presentation is to give a lot of presentations. One semester of "speech" class just isn't enough.
I took "Speech" in high school. Except that it wasn't called "Speech". It was called "Fundamentals of Effective Communication".
So I went off to college, where a graduation requirement was to take a semester of "Speech" class. That requirement would be waived for students who had taken "Speech" class in high school.
I'm sure you can see where this is going ...
I had to take "Speech" class again in college. At the time, I was not amused ... but now I'm glad I did.
Told my kiddo at her first dance recital not to be nervous because all the parents in the audience will be focused on their own kids and not notice if she messed up. No more butterflies after that.
Pretty much the same with those middle school kids. Most classmates will be daydreaming or asleep during the oral presentation and will only start paying attention if you’re stuttering and peeing your pants.
After the things teens post on social media, youtube, and video sites, you’d think nothing could embrass them
Shy? In this day and (r)age???
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