Public Speaking & Communication Teacher | TED Speaker & Author

Dr. Julie Connor

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Boost public speaking confidence and communication skills in this interactive 8-week class. Teens (ages 14-18) learn to (1) create and deliver a strong speech and (2) master conversation skills with an expert TED speaker and speech coach.

Are you ready for public speaking fun?  Sharpen your public speaking confidence and practice conversation skills with teens.  Don't worry; speeches are only 1-4 minutes long.  Join us in class and find encouragement every time we meet.

Participants will introduce themselves to one another and practice conversation skills.  They will use an outline to develop speeches about a favorite memory or special event in their lives.

"All About Me" Speech / Create an Outline

Participants will deliver "All About Me" introductory speeches in class. They will offer one another positive feedback. Participants will practice minimizing use of filler words in short exercises.

"All About Me" Speech / Use Outline for Speaking

Participants will use words to clearly express how to complete a task. They will practice skills to give and follow instructions.

Demonstration Speech / How to Explain Instructions

Participants will use words, gestures, and props to clearly explain how to complete a task.  They will offer one another positive feedback. They will act as "speech judges" to evaluate 2 student demonstration speech videos.

Demonstration Speech / Speech Delivery

Participants will speak with expression through use of vocal variety to tell stories. They will participate in a group storytelling activity. They will practice essential storytelling skills.

Storytelling Speech / Use Vocal Variety

Participants will speak with expression and use vocal variety to read aloud a story.  They will offer one another positive feedback. Participants will discuss elements of biographies and autobiographies. They will share short autobiographical summaries about themselves.

Storytelling Speech / Speech Delivery & Biographies

Participants will learn essential elements of preparing a report. They will participate in activities to verbalize a topic sentence and support it with facts. Participants will identify the source of information for each fact.

Informational Speech / How to Prepare a Report Using Facts

Participants will deliver a speech about a topic they believe is important. They will use facts to support their topic.  Participants will incorporate sources of information for each fact in their speeches. They will offer one another positive feedback. They will work in small groups to create short topic/facts presentations.

Informational Speech / Speech Delivery

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Debate / Using Facts to Support Your Position

Participants will work together and in small groups to state positions regarding different topics and supporting positions with facts. They will practice skills to defend both the affirmative and opposition related to different debate topics.

Debate & Public Speaking Skills

Participants will discuss and identify ways persuasion is used in advertisements and in the media. They will use an outline to prepare a persuasive speech.

The Art of Persuasion / Using Words to Influence Others

Participants will share persuasive speeches.  They will offer positive feedback to one another. Participants will compare how persuasion was effectively used in short videos about creative inventions. They will work in small groups and use persuasion to support the sale of an "invention" created by the group.

Persuasion & Speech Delivery Skills

Impromptu speaking is a short speech delivered with little to no preparation.  Participants will participate in small groups to practice improvisation and acting skills.

Impromptu Speaking / Imagination & Acting Skills

Participants will have opportunities to practice public speaking skills as they practice improvisation activities and share aloud a play in class.

Impromptu & Acting Skills

A TED talk combines elements of storytelling (often from personal experience) and relates these experiences to share important information with the audience.  Participants will prepare a short motivational speech based on a personal experience and what they learned from the experience.

Motivational Speech / Information & Storytelling

Participants will share their motivational speeches with one another. They will provide one another with positive feedback. Participants will learn information about the TED talk and how they can submit a motivational speech for TED talk consideration.

Motivational Speech / The TED Talk

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