Public speaking remains, in the general population, one of the most dreaded forms of communication. Glossophobia or speech anxiety is the most common fear people have across the globe
In his anthology of great speeches Lend Me Your Ears, William Safire writes: “A good speech has a beat, a changing rhythm, a sense of movement that gets the audience tapping its mind’s foot.”
Musing about Landrieu’s impressive eloquence took me back to my own elementary school in the 1950s and being “encouraged “ to participate in our New South Wales beachside town’s annual eisteddfod. I mention this because, although I did not realize it at the time, my childhood eisteddfod experience set me up for a career in public education — not only as a beginning teacher comfortable in a classroom, but in other later-life situations that required being relaxed while speaking in public or to a group of peers.
With the curriculum redesign in 2016, the course shifted to Big Ideas and a competency-based approach. Teachers now explore competencies and skills associated with oral communication and the different tone and tenors appropriate for public speaking across a variety of subject areas.
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