Audience-Centered Teaching: How to Use Communication Strategies to be Student-Centered When Teaching Skills
Gain practical strategies to become a more student-centered educator. Dr. Steven Beebe shares tips for enhancing your instructional practice and keeping students engaged in the learning process.
Dr. Steven A. Beebe, PhD, Regents' and University Distinguished Professor emeritus at Texas State University
Teaching and learning is essentially a communication process. When interacting with others, whether your objective is to teach, persuade, or simply enjoy the conversation, it is the audience or listener that is the most important element in achieving your communication goals. This webinar offers tips for being an audience-centered educator with a special emphasis on teaching skills. Dr. Steven Beebe distills practical strategies for being a student-centered educator based on several decades of research in instructional communication. This webinar offers ways of enhancing and assessing your instruction, whether in person or online, applying skills and techniques to keep students engaged in the learning process.
About the speaker
Dr. Steven A. Beebe, PhD, Regents' and University Distinguished Professor emeritus at Texas State University
Steven A. Beebe is Regents' and University Distinguished Professor emeritus at Texas State University. He served as Chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Texas State for 28 years and concurrently as Associate Dean for 25 years. Steve is the author or co-author of 14 widely used communication books, most of which have been through multiple editions (including Russian and Chinese editions), as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and conference presentations.
He has been a Visiting Scholar at both Oxford University and Cambridge University in England. He made international headlines when conducting research at Oxford; he discovered a manuscript that was the partial opening chapter of a book that was to be co-authored with J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis called Language and Human Nature. Steve's book, C. S. Lewis and the Craft of Communication, chronicles the discovery of and identifies Lewis's contributions to communication.
Steve has travelled widely in Europe and Asia, and has played a leadership role in establishing new communication curricula in Russian universities. He has received his university's highest awards for research and twice for service, has been recognized as Honors Professor of the year, received the Texas State Everette Swinney Excellence in Teaching Award twice, was designated a Piper Professor by the Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation, and was named Outstanding Communication Professor by the National Speaker's Association. In 2013 he served as President of the National Communication Association. His passions include his family and a lifelong love of music; he is a pianist and organist and a struggling cellist.