The goal at the PP Exhibition is to communicate and share how they have met the 12 PP objectives. Each section of their report correlates to one of the 12 objectives. Students have extracted evidence of this and documented in the PP Process Journal Self Evaluation. The audience for the exhibition will be the whole school community - students, staff and parents.
I was recruited to give a session on public speaking so that students could do their presentations effectively.
Step 1: What do you know? Want to Learn?
The KWL Chart
The KWL Chart
I used a KWL (Know, Want to Know/Wonder, Learn) table for this lesson as it keeps students focuses of topic. KWL activates and documents the students' prior learning and experiences on public speaking. To start the discussion and understand the pre-existing knowledge and expectations of students, I asked:
- what does it sound like?
- what does it look like?
- how does it appeal to the audience?
Want to Know gives students a safe place to ask questions and addresses gaps in their knowledge. I let students do this on their own. This tells me what I need to highlight to make this lesson as useful as possible to them.
Finally the Learning aspect documents the students learning and they can refer back to it as their notes.
Students each had a KWL worksheet to make their own notes so that they could go at their own pace and individualise their learning of public speaking. However I used a chart for the Y11s as a group so they could use it as a reference point later. It also keeps our lesson on track for both students and myself. The chart I used will be uploaded to Personal Project Google site so they can all access it and compare it to their own KWL table if necessary.
Step 2: Public Speaking:
The Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly
After doing the K and W part of the KWL as a group, we reviewed a checklist for public speaking based on voice, appearance and content. This gave students the criteria to understand what defines good public speaking.
Then we watched 4 videos to apply this criteria and their existing knowledge and experience. After, we discussed whether they were good or bad examples, and why.
Step 3: What We Learned: Post Video Discussions
After viewing each video and having a discussion after, we noted down what we learned to do - and NOT to - from each example. Students were able to discern many good and bad qualities from all videos.
Well done Y11s and good luck with your Personal Project Exhibition on Dec 5 from 5:30pm to 7pm in the Main Hall.
