Speech Mentoring

& In-Service Professional Developement

Elevate the power of your teaching voice and storytelling with customized Creative Speech workshops that enrich your classroom experience and inspire your students.

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Pedagogical Creative Speech & Mentoring Offerings

Educators speak throughout the learning day. The quality of their voice is an essential element of communication. Raising speech to consciousness creates an opportunity to understand ourselves and others better.

Creative Speech makes us better teachers

Clear in our instructions, enlivened in our storytelling, soulful in our poetry and objective in expression of our experiences. We can listen more deeply, and understand our students better. We can experience their spirit and soul in words, because through our own study of Creative Speech, we have done it for ourselves.

Creative Speech makes stronger schools

Bringing creative speech into a school to support the health of individual teachers, tangibly strengthens those teachers’ presence and brings life, breath, and imagination to the atmosphere of their classrooms. The healthy life of each class in turn is felt throughout the entire school.

Debbie offers a free 45 minute consultation to determine your needs and the best plan for workshops and speech mentoring required for you and your school.

Contact Debbie to schedule your consultation and design your program.

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PEDAGOGICAL CREATIVE SPEECH

Discover the Transformative Power of the Four Pillars of Speech: Imagination, Movement, Sound, & Breath

Each of the following Workshops can be selected as a half day, full day or multi-day workshop.

Voice of the Teacher

Breath

Listeners of all ages mirror a speaker’s voice and breath -for that reason it is vitally important that our voices be worthy of imitation.

You will:

  • Learn how to use your voice to create a positive and engaging learning environment.

  • Discover how to express yourself with warmth, strength, and clarity.

  • Learn to create a well-managed and focused classroom.

  • Explore imagination and gesture to learn how it impacts student health and learning.

  • Implement practical strategies to enhance student engagement and achievement.

Storytelling

Unfolding the Imagination

Creative Speech Brings Your Stories to Life by Touching the Soul of the Listener. Stories Captivate, Inspire and Connect the students with your subject and the their imagination. This is why throughout history Stories are the most powerful tool for Educators.

You will:

  • Develop your imagination to create strong storytelling abilities

  • Understand the impact of the quality of your voice in storytelling

  • Learn techniques to raise consciousness of your voice and to use words and sounds to deepen and strengthen the effects of the story

  • Use these skills and learn how they can enhance classroom management

  • Encourage your students to explore their own creativity and imagination through storytelling

Drama

Movement and Gesture

Use Creative Speech to Unleash the Power of Drama in Your Classroom by Experiencing the Joys of Imaginative Play.

You will:

  • Integrate drama into your lessons to make learning more engaging and effective.

  • Learn to adapt stories into enlivened performances.

  • Gain practical techniques to guide and inspire your students.

  • Transform your classroom into a dynamic stage where students can explore, express, and learn.

  • Use drama for social-emotional learning that promotes empathy, communication, and self-expression.

  • Use these skills to enhance classroom management

Poetry

Language and Sound

Spoken Word Poetry brings song into speech, strengthens memory and enhances experiences of sounds.

You will:

  • Explore the rhythmic beauty and emotional depth of poetry.

  • Learn Practical Techniques: Acquire tools to effectively teach exciting and engaging choral recitation and spoken word to students of all ages.

  • Develop students’ reading, writing, and speaking skills through spoken poetry.

  • Foster a love of language and literature.

  • Use poetry to make lessons more dynamic and memorable.

FAQs

  • Intro to Creative Speech (30 min)

    Speech of the Teacher - The Art of Breath - Part 1 (1.5 hours)

    Break (15 min)

    Unfolding the Imagination through Storytelling - Part 1 (1.5 hours)

    LUNCH (45 minutes)

    Unfolding the Imagination Through Storytelling - Part 2 (1.5 hours)

    *All agendas will be customized per the participants needs. Weaving a combination of mentoring and teaching sessions is possible.

  • Class Visits - Observation and Demo (15 min each)

    Individual Pedagogical Speech Lessons (4 teachers at 45 min each)

    Conversation with organizer (30 min)

    *All individual sessions will be customized per the participants needs by weaving a combination of mentoring and teaching sessions.

    • Individual speech mentoring: includes classroom visit, sample teaching, three private and follow up lessons focusing on the needs of the teacher

    • Workshops

    • Certificate Offerings

    See TheArtofSpeech.org for more information

  • Full Day $750

    Pedagogical Speech Mentoring $425 (half day - class visits, demo and four individual sessions)

    Faculty or Community meeting $150 - $350

    10% discount for schools who book multiple days

    *Additional Fees include will travel, airfare, lodging, food, car

Contact Debbie to schedule your consultation and design your program.

Contact Debbie