Confident Communication: Speaking Tips for Educators

In his new easy-to-read resource, trained counselor and experienced educator Douglas A. Parker demonstrates a sensible, skills-based, humorous, and psychologically savvy approach to the strategies that every educator needs to develop as a public speaker. Parker also illustrates how to gain confidence and make nervousness work for you during a speech.

Ideally suited for:

• Use in and out of the classroom
• Professional settings and community meetings
• Improving educators′ confidence
• Creating and evaluating written speeches

Confident Communication provides the building blocks needed for public speaking while eliminating the fear factor. Now educators can perfect their oratorical capabilities as well as enjoy the security, confidence, and support needed to create and deliver dynamic speeches.

Douglas A. Parker holds dual Masters degrees in Education and Counseling. He is a lifelong educator, veteran teacher, coach, and school administrator. Debate and Speech teams that have used his lessons and techniques for public speaking have won numerous local, state, national, and international titles. His strategies are sensible, psychologically valid, easy to use, and can be an essential resource for teachers and principals in schools and in all professional settings.