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Promises: To transform the way you think about oral communication To give you a practical, powerful way to improve all student oral communication To share ideas for updating current speaking activities

And now, about you: Your name, subject, grade level The biggest “speech” you ever gave

100% Of your lessons that depend on… Of life’s important communication Of what you do will be better if…

75%

zero books in NCTE catalog teacher prep/workshops confidence you have that you can teach speaking

Speaking… Teacher in class

Speaking… Staff meeting

Speaking… Speaker at conference

Speaking… Speaker in auditorium

microphones in front of him Speaking… Speaker with many microphones in front of him

Wedding toast picture

Digital Speaking…

Video conference picture

Tablet and smartphone picture

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.

1. Ability to verbally communicate… 9 1. Ability to verbally communicate… 9. Ability to create and/or edit written reports

New tools showcase speaking… Webinars Podcasts Video Skype Digital stories…

but students don’t speak well. Blame technology: they text, tweet, Facebook Blame us: we don’t specifically teach speaking

Students listen and speak in your class.

Speaking in your class: List all the times students are asked to be verbal

Book reports Why?

It is up to you to teach students how to do those well.

That is not the same as commenting after the fact.

Assigning ≠ Teaching Assigning ≠ Teaching

The Iraq War is a good idea. It will keep America safe. There are bad people there. We need to stop them. My dad says that they have a bad religion,too. We are making the world safe.

three diferent groups are fiting for control in iraq the sunnis the shiites and the curds. For 1300 years they have been killing each other we need to stayin iraq to stop them from fiting and destaybleizing the entire region, not doing so would open the door to violint movemints And terreris organazations

Multiple-trait writing Content Organization Voice Sentence structure Word choice Mechanics

inflection loudly elocution body language articulation pitch enunciation hold head up poise rhythm slowly enthusiasm volume clearly stance tone eye contact posture gestures look at audience stand up straight expression projection body movement presence fluid expression intonation vocal modulation

Necessary Sufficient Doable Understandable

Two distinct parts Building a speech Performing a speech

Audience Content Organization Visual aids Appearance Building Audience Content Organization Visual aids Appearance

Audience Who? What?

Important information Interesting information Content Important information Interesting information

Content Connectors Clarifiers No verbal viruses

Organization Basic speech plan

Organization Grabber Opening Signposts Powerful closing

Visual Aids Relevant Accessible Important Designed, not decorated

Appearance Convey the appropriate image

Audience Content Organization Visual aids Appearance Building Audience Content Organization Visual aids Appearance

Performing Poise Voice Life Eye contact Gestures Speed

Poise Calm & confident No shuffling, rocking, fidgeting That one thing you do

Voice Every word heard

Life Feeling Emotion Passion

Eye Contact

Gestures Hands Face Body

Speed Too fast? Fast & slow Pause

Performing Poise Voice Life Eye contact Gestures Speed

BUILDING PERFORMING Poise Voice Life Eye Contact Gestures Speed Audience Content Organization Visual Aids Appearance

Mini lessons:

Tell us about a great vacation spot.

Tell us what your favorite activity is. Why is it your favorite?

Life Feeling Emotion Passion

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.

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.

Every night, almost one billion people on this planet go to bed hungry Every night, almost one billion people on this planet go to bed hungry. That’s one out of every eight people. Children are starving. I don’t think that’s right. In fact, I know it isn’t right. Let me tell you how we can solve the problem.

What is your favorite restaurant? Why?

The dog was real little. He hardly came up to my knee The dog was real little. He hardly came up to my knee. But he opened his mouth real wide, jumped up, and bit me on the hand! I looked at my hand and there were tooth marks.

It was a crazy play. I was on 2nd base and my teammate was batting It was a crazy play. I was on 2nd base and my teammate was batting. He hit a ball to left field. I was running around third, the ball was coming in from the outfield, the catcher was blocking the plate, there was a big crash, we looked at the umpire, but she just stood there. We waited. And waited. And waited. And finally the ump said, “OUT!”

Redesign one of those assignments: Insert a mini lesson

Evaluating Speaking

Proper paper markage Commas, semi-colons, etc. Squiggles and dots used correctly

Proper use of large letters Correct upper-casing Cases appropriately used

Hold head up Calm demeanor Good stance and posture

Speak loudly Projection Good volume

PD 360 Articulation Volume Projection Enunciation Word choice Eye contact Body movement Presence Grammar PD 360

PD 360 Articulation Volume Projection Enunciation Word choice Eye contact Body movement Presence Grammar PD 360

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

The answer? Use the framework.

Steven Reed: Weber cooks

Miss Colorado speech

https://www. google. com/ https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=marshall+davis+jones+touchscreen

Go to pvlegs.com

Redesign a rubric & break: Create a PVLEGS rubric for your grade level 1:45-2

Practicing Speaking

vocaroo.com

Tell teammates why we need to vocaroo.com email: erik_palmer@comcast.net Googlevoice: 720.383.7451 Tell teammates why we need to increase emphasis on speaking skills

Activities to update Chapter summaries Explanations Announcements Foothill Intermediate Discussion starter

Continuing discussions

Google Voice www.google.com/voice

flipgrid.com flipgrid.com/#41cde9ae Lock

Redesign one of those assignments: Use one of the new tools.

Impressive! Vocaroo.com Google Voice Building a speech Photo Booth Glogster Flipgrid Open the door Building a speech Performing a speech Mini Lessons Rubrics for speaking

Homework http://padlet.com/erik_palmer/marysville

www.pvlegs.com erik_palmer@comcast.net