Public Speaking Enrichment Camp 101 – Let’s Talk in Class!
How does a student develop the self-confidence necessary to make a speech in public or at school? Simple! By spending some time this vacation in the Ustar Public Speaking 101 Camp! You can recognize your own areas of strength and development by discovering the skills necessary to overcome your natural fears of speaking in front of a group by participating in a series of speech activities and drills custom-designed to develop your talents as a dynamic communicator while having fun in our safe and supportive online classroom! Good oral communication is the one skill that teachers agree is the most important academic and social ability students can have in today’s world, and this is the best place and time to discover it!
Debate Camp 101- Debate Discovery Camp
Debate is not just an academic pursuit – it’s used every day in real life and in school! So, how can you argue without becoming argumentative? With so many important issues facing students these days, learning how to advocate for your own position is becoming a vital academic and life skill! In Ustar’s Debate 101 Exploration Camp, students can learn how to express an opinion or take a stance on an issue that is important to them while elevating their public speaking skills by practicing debating skills and making claims based on logical reasoning in a fun, yet challenging atmosphere of teamwork and friendship. Students will participate in custom-designed training debates employing the fundamentals of constructing arguments and defending positions in competitive debate formats including Spontaneous Debates (SPAR), Public Forum Debate, and in real-world classroom and social discussions.
Advanced Public Speaking Enrichment Camp Featuring Oral Interpretation and Declamation
Week One
Advanced Public Speaking Camp embraces all of the themes in the 101 Enrichment Camp, and takes a deeper dive into verbal and nonverbal communication techniques with Week One focusing on lifelong skills: Opportunities are provided to learn, develop, and practice:
• Independent learning – students learn techniques to self-evaluate their presentations in public.
• Effective communication – effective communication is based on a student’s confidence in expressing his or her ideas to an audience and to improvise off-the-cuff.
• Critical thinking – the ability to create a speech designed for a specific audience, the ability to analyze an audience and its needs.
• Prose, Poetry, and Drama Interpretation.
While the class is custom designed to meet the needs of the students based on an initial day one pre-assessment, students should have some experience with public speaking to make this experience more meaningful and enjoyable.
Advanced Public Speaking Enrichment Camp Featuring Impromptu and Extemporaneous Speaking
Week Two
Advanced Public Speaking Camp embraces all of the themes in the 101 Enrichment Camp and takes a deeper dive into verbal and nonverbal communication techniques with Week Two focusing on how to develop and write a speech, how to deliver a speech with confidence, how to actively listen to a speech, how to speak extemporaneously, and how to assess another student’s speech.
While the class is custom designed to meet the needs of the students based on an initial day one pre-assessment, students should have some experience with public speaking to make this experience more meaningful and enjoyable.
Debate Camp – Advanced Debate Enrichment Camp Featuring Spontaneous Argumentation (SPAR)
Week One
Advanced Debate Enrichment Camp embraces all of the themes in the 101 Debate Discovery Camp and takes a deeper dive into choosing evidence, documenting sources, studying logical reasoning, recognizing fallacies of reasoning, cross-examining opponents, delivering rebuttals, and other elements of Spontaneous Argumentation Debate.
While the class is custom designed to meet the needs of the students based on an initial day one pre-assessment, students should have some experience with debate terms and public speaking to make this experience more meaningful and enjoyable.
Debate Camp – Advanced Debate Enrichment Camp Featuring Public Forum Debate
Week Two
Advanced Debate Enrichment Camp embraces all of the themes in the 101 Debate Discovery Camp and takes a deeper dive into affirmative and negative debating skills and styles, logic and reasoning, and value and policy principles inherent in their position and why that position is superior to the opponent’s. Various types of debates will be introduced including Lincoln-Douglas and essential elements of Public Forum Debate.
While the class is custom designed to meet the needs of the students based on an initial day one pre-assessment, students should have some experience with debate terms and public speaking to make this experience more meaningful and enjoyable.
