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Students and Their Needs

Prior Experiences

ask students to perform and speak about a topic that already interests them and that they are comfortable with

help students realize that anyone can be a good performer despite past experiences

address prior negative experiences - stage fright

Vygotsky

do not force students to overcome fear of performance all at once - zone of proximal development

Piaget

associate public speaking and performance with praise and good feelings to accommodate information that public speaking is good

Attention Span - 16-17 years old

20 minutes

keep performances to less than 20 minutes with intervals between for group work and evaluation

encourage audience to ask questions of speaker

make sure students in the audience are paying attention to the performance

Gender

Boys

need movement to attract attention

allow students to have props and movement in their performances

Girls

have a low tolerance for background noise

make sure audience is quiet and attentive during performance

Performing can be used to present ideas to a group, teach a lesson, and build confidence.

Cross-curricular Ties

Using props in performance

misconceptions

correlational features

the audience can interact with props - this is not always necessary or effective

props can be worn

props can be edible but not all are

overgeneralizing

using a PowerPoint will always add to the performance and never distract

undergeneralizing

only props that the audience can interact with are effective

non-examples

lengthy videos

wordy PowerPoint

distracts from speaker

examples

physical representations of topic

pictures

the ingredients of a recipe

a physical copy of a recipe

costume

PowerPoint

use pictures often

each bullet point should have less than five words

each slide should have less than five bullet points

defining characteristics

props do not distract from the speaker

props add to the performance

props are physical objects

History - theatrical performance of a historical event

Math - showing the class how to solve a problem

Science - presenting a project

English - theatrical performance of a story, public speaking