Demonstrates the ability to provide empathy. Demonstrates the ability to express themselves clearly in interpersonal settings. The ability to establish and maintain professionalism in the field. Demonstrates a formulated philosophy of speech performance and program administration. Demonstrates an ability to write educational critiques.
Proponents exist for both curricular instruction and supervised experience.
Obviously, in order for competencies to be reached, both coursework and guided experience will be essential components of a training program. An endless number of models exist under the structure of the graduate assistantship which serve perfectly for training, whether reporting occurs individually or within a small group, as teams of GTAs or alongside the Director. Both formal and informal approaches should be developed, where a graduate student has both course requirements for the accomplishment of competencies as well as gains competency from individual mentorship. Serving as the trainer would most likely be the Director of Forensics, who is the person most likely to teach the Directing Forensics course and to whom the graduate assistants in forensics most often report. This is often the person who provides an evaluation of the graduate assistant for decisions regarding future funding, and the one who will most likely provide the letter of recommendation for future employment in the activity.