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How to Stop “Likes,” “Ums,” and Other Distracting Speaking Behaviors

March 8, 2016 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

Part of quality speaking instruction — particularly speech delivery instruction — is helping students eliminate their distracting speech behaviors. If you’re familiar with Erik Palmer’s PVLEGS acronym for speech delivery (a must-use, in my opinion), such behaviors are Poise issues. Here are some of the distracting habits my kids bring into their pop-up debates and small group discussions each year: Fillers (“like,” […]

Pop-Up Toasts: A Last Day of School Activity that Teaches PVLEGS, Character, and Classiness

June 6, 2015 By Dave Stuart Jr. 48 Comments

(Note: This post is updated every year with modifications or lessons learned, by Dave and others, in using this activity. Scroll to the end of the post for those updates.) The curriculum is completed, the last tests are taken, and, for one reason or another, you’ve got your students for 30 or 60 more minutes. […]

Three Great Points in Erik Palmer’s “Effective Communication” Video

July 28, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

I’ve written about Erik Palmer’s work before (remember PVLEGS?), and I’m working through his latest book Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking. But recently, I found something else of his that’s totally free and pretty powerful. It’s a video called “Effective Communication,” and while I’d encourage you to click here to watch it yourself, I […]

PVLEGS: A Public Speaking Acronym that Transforms Students

April 15, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 11 Comments

Before I start lathering at the mouth about PVLEGS, let me just state plainly that this acronym for effective speaking was developed by Erik Palmer, a professional speaker/edu-consultant/former-teacher and the author of Well Spoken, Digitally Speaking, and Teaching the Core Skills of Listening and Speaking. To my knowledge, Erik is doing the. best. work. around teaching kids to […]

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