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Two fish…

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

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

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

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

Speaking…

Digital 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.

Teacher perspective

Parent perspective

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

Assigning ≠ Teaching Assigning ≠ Teaching

Students listen and speak in your class.

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

That is not the same as commenting after the fact.

What are the pieces of effective speaking?

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

Necessary Doable Sufficient 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

Audience Content Organization Visual aids Appearance

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

Gestures Hands Face Body

Speed Too fast? Fast & slow Pause

Poise Voice Life Eye contact Gestures Speed

Mini lesson: life

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.

Evaluating Speaking

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

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

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

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Taylor Mali