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Why teach speaking?
Speaking and Listening:
Flexible communication and collaboration
Including but not limited to skills necessary for formal
presentations, the Speaking and Listening standards
require students to develop a range of broadly useful
oral communication and interpersonal skills. Students
must learn to work together, express and listen
carefully to ideas, integrate information from oral,
visual, quantitative, and media sources, evaluate
what they hear, use media and visual displays
strategically to help achieve communicative purposes,
and adapt speech to context and task.
Career readiness
5. Initiative
4. Analytical Skills
3. Teamwork Skills
2. Strong Work Ethic
1. Verbal Communication
New tools showcase speaking.
Webinars
Podcasts
Video
Skype
Digital stories…
Students don’t speak well.
Blame technology:
they text, tweet, Facebook
Blame us:
we don’t specifically teach speaking
It is up to
you
to teach
students
how to
speak
well.
Assigning
≠
Teaching
Necessary
Sufficient
Doable
Understandable
Two distinct parts
• Building a
speech
• Performing a
speech
Audience
Content
Organization
Visual aids
Appearance
Who?
What?
Important information
Interesting information
Connectors
Clarifiers
No verbal viruses
Basic speech plan
Grabber opening
Signposts
Powerful closing
Relevant
Accessible
Important
Designed, not decorated
Convey the
appropriate image
Poise
Voice
Life
Eye contact
Gestures
Speed
Poise
Calm & confident
No shuffling, rocking, fidgeting
Nervous smile
That one thing you do
Voice
Every word heard
Life
Feeling
Emotion
Passion
Eye Contact
Hands
Gestures
Face
Body
Speed
Too fast?
Fast & slow
Pause
Lesson ideas
Tell us what your favorite activity is.
Why is it your favorite?
I don’t think you’re dumb.
Tropical forests cover just 7% of the
world’s surface, but these forests
contain more than half of the world’s
living species. A sad fact is that these
forests are being destroyed. Each
year, 40 million acres--about the size
of the state of Washington--disappear,
along with the plants and animals that
live there.
They were huge--bigger than a car,
even bigger than a house. Suddenly
there were three more of them. My
heart started beating so fast I thought
it was going to burst. I looked around
for a place to hide.
Life is too crazy. We are always busy.
We rush to get up, wolf down
breakfast, run to school, race to get
kids to practice, hurry through meals,
do our chores…we are always in a
hurry. What if one day we just
stopped? I mean stopped. Dead halt.
Catch your breath. Relax. Take a
break. It will improve your life.
Evaluating
Speaking
PD 360
Articulation
Volume
Projection
Enunciation
Word choice
Eye contact
Body movement
Presence
Grammar
ReadWriteThink
Nonverbal skills
eye contact
body language “movements seem fluid…”
poise
Verbal skills
enthusiasm
elocution
Content
subject knowledge
organization
mechanics “no misspellings…”
SBAC scoring guide
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