Objectives
The importance of communication skills to students cannot be overstated. Effective communication skills will not just help our children participate in a crowded classroom, but will enable them to stand out in a crowd.
Our goals are to help our children:
- Speak concisely and precisely, with confidence and clarity.
- Develop and deliver informative speeches, and connect with audience.
- Embrace disagreement and arguments of opposite views.
- Develop critical thinking.
- Develop teamwork & leadership skills.
Approach
We have developed our year long program based on Middle-School & High School Public Speaking & Debate concepts.
Students & Parent Coaches meet once every week for an hour to enrich students' presentation and communication skills with Public Speaking & Debate sessions. Industry leaders and guest speakers will provide real-world examples.
Typical class schedule for this program may include:
- 15 mins: Introducing Public Speaking & Debate topics
- 30 mins: Practicing Public Speaking & Debate
- 10 mins: Review
- 5 mins: Discuss next topic
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Curriculum 2020-21 Program
Below schedule, we will follow till winter break for Speech & Debate.
4th and 5th grades both will have the same topics with minor variation.
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Till Winter break | Topic | Week 1 | Lunar Helium Extraction | Week 2 | Federal Money for Pandemic | Week 3 | Presentation on Week 1 and 2 topics by students | Week 4 | Oil | Week 5 | Drones in Warfare | Week 6 | US Iran Foreign Policy (Session 1) | Week 7 | US Iran Foreign Policy (Session 2) | Week 8 | Presentation on Week 4-8 topics by students | Week 9 | Kahoot |
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