When going on practice, it is common to have questions to which answers are sought. My advice is to keep a small note book handy, to jot things down which go toward providing information and answers.

As a part time person connected with teacher education, it is heart warming to know of the deep commitment of so many pre-service teachers to becoming our teachers’ of tomorrow.

Should the development of speech and speaking programs be part of the curriculum available to children and students of all ages? Is ‘speaking and listening’ becoming an extinct form of expression?

My concern is more with the qualities of speaking and LISTENING than with the mere speaking of words. There is speaking and speaking. Listening as a part of the speech platform seems to have gone by the bye. Too often people listen for pause, so they can begin speaking. They listen but don’t hear or comprehend