This book provides clear, accessible strategies for developing your students public speaking abilities - a valuable skill to help your students shine.

Letting Student Voices Shine provides a clear curriculum for improving public speaking competencies, including a progression of mastery, implementable classroom activities, video demonstrations, and rubrics for helping teachers to evaluate and students to improve. In addition to instructional and example videos created specifically for this book, chapters also feature TED Talk examples - the gold standard for effectively conveying accurate, easy-to-understand information to a target audience - to illustrate key points on what does or doesn't work, and why.

Whether used as is, or broken up to focus on specific public speaking skills, teachers in any subject area will find this book an invaluable tool to ease students into public speaking until they are expert orators.