How Kristen Kelsch Teaches Communication Skills

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Teaching my students what good communication entails is a tricky one. I would say that it's a combination of out of class and in class activities. We have the benefit of a lecture series that comes through our college every year and it brings maybe five to six either academics or researchers or architects you know, into the college to present their work and, at the end of each lecture the next day in class, we always discuss the lecture we talked about what was interesting about their work, what was really compelling we learned a little bit more about their work, even further. But what I've also started to do in the past few years is we talked about their presentation style because some of the individuals who present really formal academic papers, others have a far more you know informal exchange or discussion. And I found that looking at examples, and this is one that's a common example that all the students have just experienced. It should be fresh in their minds. It becomes a wonderful way to talk a little bit about delivery and where did you get lost, where did the conversation get fuzzy, did they have a really compelling visual approach to their lecture presentation. So that's become a really great anchoring point for that discussion.