Letting Student Voices Shine

Using Online Talks to Teach Public Speaking
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-47023-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 184 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

This book provides clear, accessible strategies for developing your students public speaking abilities – a valuable skill to help your students shine.

Letting Student Voices Shine provides a clear curriculum for improving public speaking competencies, including a progression of mastery, implementable classroom activities, video demonstrations, and rubrics for helping teachers to evaluate and students to improve. In addition to instructional and example videos created specifically for this book, chapters also feature TED Talk examples – the gold standard for effectively conveying accurate, easy-to-understand information to a target audience – to illustrate key points on what does or doesn’t work, and why.

Whether used as is, or broken up to focus on specific public speaking skills, teachers in any subject area will find this book an invaluable tool to ease students into public speaking until they are expert orators.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stanley, Todd

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Teildisziplinen der Pädagogik Sonderpädagogik, Heilpädagogik Hochbegabtenförderung
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik Literatur, Deutsch, Fremdsprachen (Unterricht & Didaktik)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction – Why public speaking is important: By Verlin Zhang, 7th grade student from a DDC Public Speaking course 1. Why you should teach your students how to publicly speak 2. What is a TED Talk and why should you use them to teach students about public speaking 3. Creating a safe space 4. How to get started – the two-minute bio speech 5. Finding your voice 6. Expository – the five-minute TED-Ed speech 7. Demonstrative – the ten-minute speech 8. Persuasive – the 15-minute speech 9. Oratorical – the 20-minute TED Talk 10. The little things matter Conclusion – How students can continue to build on their confidence in public speaking Appendix Works cited

Über Autor(innen)

Todd Stanley is the author of over 20 teacher education books, including A Teacher's Toolbox for Gifted Education: 20 Strategies You Can Use Today to Challenge Gifted Students. He has been an educator for over 28 years and is the Gifted Services Coordinator for Pickerington Schools, as well as an Adjunct Professor teaching gifted education at the University of Cincinnati.