Types and Trends: Commentary on Article by Carol Severino

Virginia Darby, Dubuque Wahlert High SchoolFollow

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Any teacher who has done time in a secondary school can appreciate Ms. Severino's opening comments about classroom chemistry. Having taught high school English, theatre, and speech classes since 1971, I've experienced many of the same frustrations Severino describes in the rhetoric classes on which she focuses. Clearly, her analysis and experimentation with those student groups is right in line with current educational trends which call for major rethinking and restructuring of traditional classroom practices. As teachers looking towards the 21st Century, we must be willing to make a fundamental shift in our accepted perception of education as a mass production process. Students perceive the world differently, students perform differently, and students should be assessed differently. While allowing for and encouraging individual personality types, teachers must, at the same time, insist that students achieve a high level of communication or performance competence in order to function as contributing citizens in our democratic community.

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Iowa Journal of Speech Communication

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Recommended Citation

Darby, Virginia (1992) "Types and Trends: Commentary on Article by Carol Severino," Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 24: No. 2, Article 6.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol24/iss2/6