The 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, they 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
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
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Stukent Simternships integrate with your favorite LMS platforms
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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.
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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
Introduces the foundational principles of public speaking, including ethics, communication models, and effective idea generation.
Focuses on understanding audience needs, embracing diversity, and fostering meaningful connections through communication.
Covers the basics of research, including establishing intent, evaluating sources with the CRAAP test, and proper referencing techniques.
Explores quick-thinking skills for impromptu speaking, focusing on structuring ideas, delivery techniques, and everyday communication.
Focuses on how to craft persuasive presentations, analyze audience motivation, and use appeals effectively while avoiding logical fallacies.
Covers how to create clear, engaging informative speeches by focusing on purpose, structure, organizational patterns, and audience needs.
Explores the art of ceremonial speaking, providing tips for mastering etiquette and excelling as a Master of Ceremonies (MC).
Focuses on structuring presentations, creating audience interest, ensuring accessibility, and overcoming writer’s block.
Explores how to enhance presentations with effective support materials, including slide decks, handouts, and other visual aids.
Offers tools and techniques to manage nerves, build confidence, and prepare effectively for presentations.
Emphasizes the key elements of effective delivery, including voice, nonverbal communication, location, and overall performance assessment.
Explores the dynamics of team presentations, covering stages of team development, conflict resolution, and strategies for delivering as a cohesive group.
Highlights the importance of active listening and provides strategies for giving and receiving constructive feedback.
Explores emerging trends in communication, including new media, podcasts, Pecha Kucha, and the evolving importance of connection.
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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