„Teacher as an ideal public speaker in the classroom“ thesis starts with defining speech as optimal human phonic communication shaped by means of three parallel rhythmic patterns, those at sentence, word and syllable level (Škarić 1986: 5). Speaking is one of the primary language activities that is specific to humankind. Speaking is an innate human ability that can become a skill with the implementation of speaking exercises. Speaking (rhetoric) is a skill in the effective use of speech – the art of speaking, and a speaker is a person who has mastered the art of speaking very well. The aim of this research was to examine the opinion of final-year students of the Integrated undergraduate and graduate Educational Studies of the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb (all modules and fields) on how they see the role of the teacher as an ideal speaker in the classroom. In addition, this research aimed to examine what students think are good speaker characteristics. And also, the aim was to determine whether students have had courses related to public speaking at the Faculty that would prepare them for the role of public speaker in the classroom. The research was conducted on a sample of 106 (F = 101, M = 5) final-year students of the Educational Studies of the Faculty of Teacher Education, University of Zagreb. The research instrument was a survey questionnaire created using the digital tool Google forms. The questionnaire was published on the social network Facebook and shared via WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. The research established that the 96,2 % of participants believe that the role of teachers as a speakers in classroom is very important.