1. If you are looking to improve the overall communication skills of all the children, including the back benchers
2. If you want to bring out the confidence in each child
3. If you want your children to use better choice of words and speak gracefully
4. If you want your children to speak English ( notTanglish or Hinglish or any other ish..)
5. If you know that a child’s professional success depends more on their communication skills than technical skills
| Category | Practills’ Speaker’s Lab | Spoken English |
|---|---|---|
| Listening and Speaking | Speakers Lab enables each child to listen and speak clearly. Only a good listener can be a good speaker | Focus in more on templates and sentences rather than practice |
| Reading and Writing | Children are given opportunity to present their reading materials and write creative content on a periodical manner | Only emphasis on grammar than encouraging creative writing |
| Organizing skills | Children take up leadership roles and plan for their sessions. They learn soft skills such as teamwork, organizing skills, and interpersonal communication. | No importance given for organizing skills |
| Critical reasoning | Children are given challenging simulations to practice and it aids them to think on their feet and communicate effectively | No importance given for critical reasoning |
| Public Speaking | Children learn the nuances of public speaking such as choosing interesting topics, body language, voice modulation, and building impressive presentations | No public speaking opportunity |
| Boards curriculum | Speakers Lab is developed in line with central board curriculum of improving co-scholastic skills. So each task a child would result in building their personality | Follows generally established principles regardless of age and level |
Learn continually, there is always one more thing to learn - Steve jobs
Speeches
Warp Zone
Reflection
Speeches
Children would deliver speeches every week to practice their speaking skills. Practills’ manual serves as a guideline.
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Warp Zone
Activity will be done every session to improve their critical reasoning, vocab building, engaging people, and on different aspects of public speaking.
Reflection
Feedback and inputs given to each child to address the area of improvement after every session
Every child would be provided with a course manual to do the speakers’ lab session
Projects to enhance the kids real life interactions with people. Learning is fun only when we know the application of it.
Children would apply the learning they have during the sessions by taking part in practical projects.
1. Create a campaign – Children would promote a campaign they believe in and spread the noble message throughout the school – Save water campaign
2. Contribute in school events – Children would participate, organize, and compete in schools events such as Independence day speech, Being an MC for annual day, Being an organizer for teachers day and so on
3. Interact with experts – Children would be offered multiple opportunity to talk with experts and learn live (attach Helen poster and Jitesh poster)
Periodical assessments and reports to the school to understand the growth.
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Certificates to all the children at the end of the academic year (add certificate images)