The Public Speaking Simulation + Courseware
Turnkey materials to add practical, hands-on learning to your course
The Public Speaking Bundle gives you turnkey tools to develop students’ oral delivery techniques and critical listening skills. This bundle includes the hands-on Stukent Public Speaking Simulation and the comprehensive “Public Speaking” courseware, two innovative resources that help you bring effective, hands-on learning into your course with less hassle!
The Stukent Public Speaking Simulation
Increase student confidence in front of an audience
Add more public speaking practice to your course with ease! The Public Speaking Simulation immerses your students in impromptu, informative, and persuasive public speaking scenarios. To succeed, students will need to identify their audiences, use public speaking frameworks, and practice new skills by recording a short speech each round.
Students also review their peers’ presentations, which improves their evaluation skills and creates opportunities for collaboration in your course.
Your students will master key professional speaking skills, including:
Applying public speaking frameworks
Performing audience analysis
Building confidence
Identifying credible sources
Adapting communication styles
Brainstorming topics
Crafting speeches
Enhancing speech delivery
Key simulation learning objectives
Over the course of 11 rounds, your students will ...
- Practice speaking by implementing a variety of established frameworks and models grounded by principles of public speaking
- Integrate impromptu, informative, and persuasive speaking frameworks to increase comfort and confidence
- Relate and execute the model of communication in a variety of contexts
- Analyze audiences to tailor verbal communication to fit their needs
- Analyze and create verbal communication using industry-standard frameworks
- Conduct tactical brainstorming techniques to support the ideation of speaking topics
- Identify reliable sources when performing secondary research to prepare formal verbal communication
Hands-on Learning without the Hassle
Stukent Simternships integrate with your favorite LMS platforms
Single Sign-on
Grade Book Syncing
Deep Linking
Rostering
Practice, Meet Pedagogy
Pair Your Simternship With Stukent Courseware
Stukent courseware aligns with your Simternship, giving your students a solid foundation for success.
Stukent Courseware
Courseware that puts classroom concepts into professional contexts
Stukent courseware goes beyond the limitations of the printed textbook, pairing powerful instructional resources for you with an annually updated, concise text for students.
An Authoritative Text + Robust Instructional Resources
The “Public Speaking” courseware
The “Public Speaking” courseware helps you give students the foundation they need to develop impromptu, persuasive, and informative oral delivery techniques, practice critical listening skills, and learn how to control their anxiety.
This courseware contains turnkey resources such as auto-graded assessments, lesson plans, and lecture slide decks. With Stukent, you can teach your best course in less prep time!
What’s Inside
Table of Contents
- Section 1: The Power of Public Speaking
- Section 2: Ethics & Public Speaking
- Section 3: Model of Communication
- Section 4: Idea Generation
- Section 5: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Nonverbal Delivery
- Section 2: Voice
- Section 3: Location
- Section 4: During Speech
- Section 5: Total Delivery
- Section 6: Assessment
- Section 7: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Communication — It’s Not About You
- Section 2: Diversity
- Section 3: Audience Attitudes
- Section 4: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Nerves: Why & Where
- Section 2: Nerve Control Tool Kit
- Section 3: Preparation
- Section 4: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Impromptu Speaking
- Section 2: The Trap of the List
- Section 3: Introduction & Conclusions
- Section 4: Delivery Tips
- Section 5: Day-to-day Experiences
- Section 6: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Purpose
- Section 2: Types of Informative Speeches
- Section 3: Organizational Patterns
- Section 4: Structural Elements
- Section 5: Audience Consideration
- Section 6: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Intention
- Section 2: Research
- Section 3: CRAAP Test
- Section 4: Referencing
- Section 5: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Presentation Structure & Outline
- Section 2: Ensure Accessibility
- Section 3: Creating Interest
- Section 4: Writer’s Block
- Section 5: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Choosing Support Material
- Section 2: Slide Deck
- Section 3: Handouts
- Section 4: Other Support
- Section 5: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Stages of Team Development
- Section 2: Assess Purpose
- Section 3: Team Conflict
- Section 4: Developing with a Team
- Section 5: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Preparing a Persuasive Presentation
- Section 2: Types of Persuasive Speeches
- Section 3: Persuasive Appeals
- Section 4: Audience Position
- Section 5: Audience Motivation
- Section 6: Audience Evaluation
- Section 7: Putting It Together
- Section 8: Fallacies
- Section 9: The Ask
- Section 10: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Active Listening
- Section 2: Giving & Receiving Feedback
- Section 3: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Master of Ceremonies (MC)
- Section 2: Ceremonial Speaking
- Section 3: General Rules & Etiquette
- Section 4: Summary
- Introduction
- Section 1: Connection
- Section 2: New Media
- Section 3: Pecha Kucha
- Section 4: Podcasts
- Section 5: Summary
- Content Summery
- What Now
Key courseware concepts
In this courseware, your students will ...
- Identify personal speech habits and characteristics to increase confidence
- Dissect the speech communication process, with respect for and adaptation to the audience
- Analyze presentation anxiety and develop strategies to control apprehension and anxiety
- Apply elements of speech writing, including organization, outlining, research, and vocabulary build
- Model the ethics of public speaking and the obligation to the audience
- Develop effective oral delivery techniques
- Develop critical listening and evaluative skills
Embedded Educator Resources
Everything You Need to Teach
Your Best Course
- 14 chapters
- 61 auto-graded Check Your Understanding activities
- 14 Strengthen Your Skills activities
- 14 auto-graded chapter quizzes
- 14 lesson plans
- 14 lecture slide sets
- Sample syllabus
- Sample course calendars
- Cumulative glossary for student reference
- Sample syllabus, course outline, and calendar
- Activities built for online, in-person, and hybrid modalities
About the Author
With a Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on creating innovation through partnerships, and a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing and Biotechnology Management, Tara Williams’ passion lies in integrating business and academic activities with community development. Tara uses her ability to see others’ assets to connect and create community impact.
Tara has been an instructor in the School of Business & Continuing Students at Medicine Hat College in Alberta, Canada, for 15 years. Her areas of interest include public speaking, organizational behavior, service leadership and its connection to corporate culture, and entrepreneurship.
Over the last 10 years, she has taught public speaking and has loved creating a challenging environment, watching students grow in their abilities and comfort level when sharing with an audience.
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