FOR PUBLIC SPEAKING TEACHERS AND COACHES
RESOURCES, TEACHING TIPS, AND SUPPORT
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Resources and support for public speaking teachers
Love your work and find time for the rest of your life with resources and advice from a speak-the-truth colleague and a hold-your-hand friend who wants you to thrive in your public speaking classroom and find time for life beyond the school setting.
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Hey there!
I’m so happy you’re here.
If you’re teaching a public speaking course, you’re helping your students unwrap the greatest evergreen gift: communication.
No skill is more important.
Public speaking classes are a joy to teach, but they also present certain challenges: scheduling, no-show speakers, fair evaluations completed on the fly, audience involvement, and the fine balance between nurturing and enabling students who are nervous. Oh, yeah—let’s not forget about that kid who’s been living on energy drinks and faints in the middle of his speech.
Gratefully, you don’t have to manage these challenges alone. If you’re looking for strategies, resources, advice, and a dedicated cheerleader (who can’t do a cartwheel), I’m your person. I’ve locked in the public speaking course for you, and I’m already celebrating your new confidence in the classroom and your free time, too.
Thrive in your public speaking classroom AND find time for your life.
Featured Posts
Why is public speaking important? When students connect the what to the why, real learning is the result. In other words, students need to understand not just WHAT they’ll be learning, but WHY they need this information and these skills. Let me share ten great answers for the sake of brevity (and there are more):
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WHY IS PUBLIC SPEAKING IMPORTANT? 10 GREAT answers
What’s classroom management? here’s a hint: it doesn’t begin in the classroom.
Classroom management means more than positioning the pencil sharpener in a convenient location. So, what’s classroom management?
Effective classroom management IS proactive, and is rooted in an educator’s desire to connect with students, to foster interpersonal relationships between students, and to provide a safe space for student learning.
Effective classroom management IS NOT reactive, which often results in punitive and demeaning student experiences.