CTE/ARTS Speaking and Listening Workshop

In the fall we looked at ways that you could extend your students speaking and listening skills in your CTE/ARTS classroom. Each teacher received a book by Eric Palmer to read a chapter and think about how you may be able to use it in your specific classroom. 

Eric created PVLEGS for students to focus on improving speech. Here's the explanation of this from the Well Spoken book starting on page 58. 

Poise - appear calm and confident

Voice - speak every word clearly, use a volume just right for the space

Life - Express passion and emotions with your voice

Eye Contact - connect visually with your audience, look at each audience member

Gestures - Use hand motions, move your body, have an expressive face

Next Speaking and Listening Workshop: Jan 30 or 31

Your Assignment for our next workshop: review these ideas to demonstrate and discuss in our follow up CTE and Arts workshop on Jan 30 and 31. Each teacher will be asked to give a 2 minute presentation on that day using the ideas here. The presentation can be anything that you do in class to teach your students like introduce and idea, concept or project, demnostrate a skill or relate an experience.  Prizes for the best presentation!