1. Note: These slides are mostly image free. I bought the images you saw and do not have the right to give them to others. (Today’s lesson: copyright rules! We don’t teach that but we should.) For a class presentation, just go to Google and download images. Type in “gestures”—select “images”—select high resolution, for example.

2. Two fish…

3. Title: Water & Insanity What I will share today: The Common Core Standards for Listening and Speaking and a practical way to create competent communicators

4. 100% Of your lessons that depend on… Of life’s important communication

5. 75% Of adult communication is spent speaking& listening (40 % listening, 35% speaking…16% reading,9% writing)

6. zero books in NCTE catalog teacher prep programs workshops your school has provided kids who have specific instruction confidence you have that you can teach speaking

7. Speaking…

8. Digital Speaking…

11. 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.

12. Teacher perspective

13. Parent perspective

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

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

18. Assigning ≠ Teaching Assigning ≠ Teaching

19. Students listen and speak in your class.

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

21. That is not the same as commenting after the fact.

23. What are the pieces of effective speaking?

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

25. Necessary Doable Sufficient Understandable

26. Two distinct parts Building a speech Performing a speech

27. Audience Content Organization Visual aids Appearance

28. Who? What?

29. Important information Interesting information

30. Connectors Clarifiers No verbal viruses

31. Basic speech plan

32. Grabber opening Signposts Powerful closing

33. Relevant Accessible Important Designed, not decorated

34. Convey the appropriate image

35. Audience Content Organization Visual aids Appearance

36. Poise Voice Life Eye contact Gestures Speed

37. Poise Calm & confident No shuffling, rocking, fidgeting Nervous smile That one thing you do

38. Voice Every word heard

39. Life Feeling Emotion Passion

40. Eye Contact

41. Gestures Hands Face Body

42. Speed Too fast? Fast & slow Pause

43. Poise Voice Life Eye contact Gestures Speed

44. Mini lesson: life

45. Life Feeling Emotion Passion

46. I don ’ t think you ’ re dumb.

47. 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.

49. Evaluating Speaking

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

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

52. Nonverbal skills eye contact body language “movements seem fluid…” poise Verbal skills enthusiasm elocution Content subject knowledge organization mechanics “no misspellings…” ReadWriteThink

54. SBAC scoring guide

57. Taylor Mali

58. erik_palmer@comcast.net www.pvlegs.com