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Speaking Outside of the Classroom
Every Student - Every Voice
Every Student - Every Voice
the perfect opportunity to encourage all students to share their views on something they are passionate about.
What is a Speakers' Corner Today?
What is a Speakers' Corner Today?
Speakers’ Corners have very considerable symbolic as well as actual value. They represent the rights of citizens to free expression and assembly.
It doesn’t have to be a polished or prepared speech. The idea is to just stand up and share your ideas with the school community. Allow your students to present their opinions in verse, as we see in spoken poetry, or in an informal speech format.
Speakers' Corners give students a dynamic format to practice skills of interaction and presentation in English.
How do I create a Speakers' Corner?
How do I create a Speakers' Corner?
Designate a corner of the school grounds with shade and space for seating as your Speakers' Corner.
Select a lunchtime when you will invite students and the community to sit on the ground, share lunch with students and listen to the speakers.
Decide on a code of conduct which can include a maximum time limit, respect for alternative opinion, courtesy to other speakers and members of the public.
Find a soap box or small platform on which students can stand. It should be very stable, but high enough so students are visible over the crowd.
You may decide to have an MC to introduce the speaker or a mobile chalkboard where the speaker’s name and topic can be written up as they step up to speak.
Your task for this Program
Your task for this Program
Run a Speakers' Corner once a week.
Run a Speakers' Corner once a week.
Help students choose their topics and talk about things that are important to them.
Help students choose their topics and talk about things that are important to them.
Help them write and practice their speeches or spoken poetry.
Help them write and practice their speeches or spoken poetry.
Put out light refreshments in your Speakers' Corner.
Put out light refreshments in your Speakers' Corner.
Make posters to encourage other students to come and listen.
Make posters to encourage other students to come and listen.
JHS Speakers' Corner
JHS Speakers' Corner
Show and Tell in JHS
Show and Tell in JHS
Students bring interesting objects from home to share with the class. In order to make it more than a "bring and brag" session, teachers must take an active role in guiding students how to plan, prepare and execute their talk.
1. Plan - Guide students to choose interesting objects, that have a story behind them. Anything from a meaningful photograph, to vegetables grown in their garden, to a pet hamster or pet project.
2. Choose a week or two to run this activity. 3-4 for speakers per day, so there is ample time, and interest does not wane.
3. Establish guidelines - both for speakers and for listeners. discuss the importance of positive feedback, and curious, polite questions, and what attentive listening looks like.
4. Model and share successful show and tells. Just like the writing process, students learn by seeing and processing.
5. Planning: show students how to make a cluster map, to plan their talk. This is when they can gather the vocabulary words to discuss their topic.
6. Presenting - students may want to practice in front of friends, so they feel more prepared to stand in front of the class.
7. Critiquing - each student can complete a rubric to give feedback to the speaker, and also complete a listening rubric to reflect on how attentive a listener they were.
Read more about this by reading:
CAMP, DONNA J., and GAIL E. TOMPKINS. “Show and Tell in Middle School?” Middle School Journal, 1990
HS Speakers' Corner
HS Speakers' Corner
Get on your Soapbox, and share your opinion about a Social Issue or an environmental Issue
Get on your Soapbox, and share your opinion about a Social Issue or an environmental Issue
Global Warming?
The Opioid Crisis?
What do you have an opinion about? Make others aware of the problem, and maybe even a solution... in a powerful one-minute speech on your soapbox.
What do you need to keep in mind?
message
simplicity
repetition
practice
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