Ms. Wilson's Oral Comm Class

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About The Teacher
Until the age of 12, I attended the smallest school Arkansas and probably the smallest in the United States: Snowball. I was the only one in the first grade; there were 5 of us in grades 1-3 and 32 in grades 1-12. Those early years convinced me that all students can achieve and have something to contribute to the class. One day, my 1st-3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Martin, asked me to work with a student who was having trouble understanding syllables. The gal thought "cowboy" had four syllables. The funny part was that the way we Hillbillies pronounced it, it did: "ca-yuh-bo-wee." I worked with her all morning but by the time recess was over, she could sing and stomp her foot to the "Cow-Boy" Song. Mrs. Martin hugged us both and said, "Why Deborah, I do believe you are a BORN teacher," I stuck my chest out and replied, "Yes, Ma'am. I am." That, as they say, was that. I believed in Mrs. Martin so much that I trusted what she saw in me, even though I could not see it in myself and certainly not in my circumstances. College seemed as far out of my reach as the moon. Here I am, three degrees later, wearing a rhinestone pin with matching earrings every day to honor her memory. Nadine Martin is still who I want to be when I grow up. In the same way I remember a teacher who changed my life because she believed in me, I hope you will remember me as someone who encouraged you to let your little light shine!

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Mission
"We won't get anywhere if we don't get there together." Making speeches is to communication what being a podiatrist is to medicine: just one piece of the larger picture! We'll study interpersonal and small group communication, conflict management, gender differences in communication styles and cross-cultural communication. You'll leave Oral Comm class having gained a better understanding of yourself as a communicator.