This slide corresponds with Wrench, McCroskey, and Richmond's (2008) Human Communication in Everyday Life: Explanations and Applications published by Allyn and Bacon.

2. Historical Background

6. Benjamin Bloom’s Three Domains of Learning (pp. 411-412)

7. Affective Learning The acquisition of likes and attitudes, values, and beliefs related to various aspects of knowledge.

8. Behavioral Learning The mastery of a motor act or skill.

9. Cognitive Learning The recall and recognition of knowledge and the development of intellectual abilities and skills.

11. Anxiety In the Classroom

18. Student Motivation (p. 415)

19. Sir Christopher Ball in his presidential address to the North of England Education Conference in 1995 said, “There are only three things of importance to successful learning: motivation, motivation, and motivation . . .any fool can teach students who want to learn.”

20. Motivation A force or drive that influences behavior to achieve a desired outcome (Millette & Gorham, 2002, p. 141).

24. Teacher Communication

25. Teacher Clarity (p. 416) The process by which an instructor is able to effectively stimulate the desired meaning of course content and process in the minds of students through the use of appropriately-structured verbal and nonverbal messages (Chesebro & McCroskey, 1998, 262-263).

36. Teacher Misbehaviors

38. Three Types of Misbehaviors (pp. 357-358)

39. Incompetence The extent to which a teacher does not know his or her content and/or how to present that content effectively in the classroom.

40. Offensiveness The extent to which a teacher is abusive or harassing in the classroom.

41. Indolence The traditional perspective of the absent-minded professor.

42. Ending the Course