Lauren a recently hired high School principal has been invited to give a speech to the PTA about her overall vision for the school and her educational priorities Lauren decides to talk about her commitment to developing global citizens and lifelong Learners through student-centered classrooms as she drafts her speech she defines what these terms mean to her and provide some examples of how she sees them playing out in the classroom and the interest of time she deletes several paragraphs that she wrote about the history of the school based on what you have learned about strategies for improving verbal communication assess the strength of Lauren's approach a it could be improved because she is not considering the needs of our audience by skipping over the history of the school B it's strong because she has kept the needs of her audience and mind by matching her speech to their interest see it's strong because she is choosing to use sophisticated terms like global citizen or D it could be improved because she is defining terms that are likely already understood by her audience
Based on what you have learned about strategies for improving verbal communication, the strength of Lauren's approach can be assessed as follows:
C) It could be improved because she is defining terms that are likely already understood by her audience.
By defining terms like "global citizen" and "lifelong learners," Lauren assumes that her audience may already be familiar with these concepts. This could potentially make her speech less engaging or condescending to the audience, as they might perceive it as unnecessary explanations of terms that are commonly understood. To improve her approach, Lauren could focus on providing specific examples or anecdotes related to developing global citizens and lifelong learners, rather than spending time defining these terms.
Based on what I have learned about strategies for improving verbal communication, I would assess the strength of Lauren's approach as follows:
D) It could be improved because she is defining terms that are likely already understood by her audience.
While it is important for Lauren to define terms that may be unfamiliar to her audience, in this case, terms like "global citizens" and "lifelong learners" are commonly used concepts in the field of education. As a high school principal, it is likely that the PTA members would already be familiar with these terms. Therefore, spending valuable time defining such terms may not be necessary and could result in a loss of engagement from the audience. Instead, Lauren could focus on providing concrete examples and practical strategies that demonstrate how she plans to develop global citizens and lifelong learners in the student-centered classrooms.