Skills for Life
SKILLS FOR LIFE: CONFIDENT PRESENTING
Whether you’re putting your hand up in class, meeting new friends at an after-school club or delivering a speech to a large group, confidence is key.
During this course you’ll learn small skills that will make a big difference to how you feel about speaking in public. These valuable skills will not only enable you to engage more deeply with your learning, they will also help you feel more comfortable when confronted with unfamiliar situations or people for the first time. These are skills that you will use time and time again throughout your professional careers and personal lives as adults.
Whatever career you choose- YouTuber, politician, famous footballer or doctor- you will need to feel confident about your delivery; start that journey today with this course!
COURSE OVERVIEW
WEEK 1: MEET THE TEAM AND HAVE A GO
We’ll play games and brainstorm what we already know about confidence
We’ll be introduced to a detective who has a crime to solve and learn some calming techniques
WEEK 2: EXPLORING BODY LANGUAGE AND FACIAL EXPRESSION
We’ll take part in physical games to explore confident postures, gestures and facial expressions and how they make us feel
We’ll meet our detective who finds some clues and learn how to be confident as part of a team
WEEK 3: PLAYING WITH VOICE AND BREATH
We’ll develop our vocal skills and breathing techniques through a series of fun exercises
We’ll work with our detective to reveal a breakthrough in the case and learn how to read a text confidently
WEEK 4: THE WHOLE PACKAGE- BODY AND VOICE
We’ll integrate our vocal and physical skills, recognising confidence in others and evaluating our own performance
We’ll help our detective solve the crime and prepare for a news conference with journalists
WEEK 5: CONFIDENT PRESENTING
We’ll recap calming techniques and vocal/physical warmups- exercises we do before presenting publicly
Our detective will present in front of journalists and receive great praise for a confident performance!