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stevenpiziks) wrote2009-01-16 08:25 pm
stevenpiziks) wrote2009-01-16 08:25 pm
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Presentation
I made a short presentation during today's staff development. Nothing calms the nerves like making a speech to professional public speakers!
See, recently the district decided to add a public speaking component to the core English curriculum, meaning all year-long English classes have to have a formal speech in the third marking period. English 9's is a demonstration speech. English 10's is informative. English 11's is persuasive. In order to track student improvement, all speeches would be graded on the same rubric and the scores entered into a computer program designed to track such things.
The problem was with the rubric we got from the district. It was more for an essay, not a speech. After I went through some back-and-forth with the Person In Charge at the district level, I finally sat down and redesigned the rubric from top to bottom and side to side. (This is what happens when you open your big mouth, see.) It was well received by some, opposed by others, and that was the last I heard of it.
All this happened last year.
On Tuesday, I learned that my rubric was being adopted district-wide, and would I please do a presentation on it to all the English teachers in the district on Friday? Oh! Uh, sure.
So I had to give a speech to professional public speakers about giving speeches.
I kicked ass. :)
See, recently the district decided to add a public speaking component to the core English curriculum, meaning all year-long English classes have to have a formal speech in the third marking period. English 9's is a demonstration speech. English 10's is informative. English 11's is persuasive. In order to track student improvement, all speeches would be graded on the same rubric and the scores entered into a computer program designed to track such things.
The problem was with the rubric we got from the district. It was more for an essay, not a speech. After I went through some back-and-forth with the Person In Charge at the district level, I finally sat down and redesigned the rubric from top to bottom and side to side. (This is what happens when you open your big mouth, see.) It was well received by some, opposed by others, and that was the last I heard of it.
All this happened last year.
On Tuesday, I learned that my rubric was being adopted district-wide, and would I please do a presentation on it to all the English teachers in the district on Friday? Oh! Uh, sure.
So I had to give a speech to professional public speakers about giving speeches.
I kicked ass. :)