Getting Started with Introduction to Public Speaking


Jan 02, 2025 | Posted by the IEW Blog Team

The gifts on Day 8 of IEW’s Twelve Days of Christmas Giving provide everything you need to start your students on the path to becoming confident and competent public speakers. Be sure you are registered for the event to receive the email with links to the gifts and the free shipping code.

Today’s first gift is two weeks of free lessons in a completely digital format for IEW's video course Introduction to Public Speaking. This course provides middle- and high-school students with lessons for five speeches along with tools and practice techniques to increase their confidence when speaking in front of an audience of any size.

In Cultivating Language Arts – Preschool through High School, Andrew Pudewa refers to a 1904 report card and notes that elocution, the ability to speak clearly and confidently to peers and other adults, was a standalone subject. It was a valued skill. Andrew points out in the Arts of Language podcast episode “IEW’s New Introduction to Public Speaking (Episode 374) that no matter what people pursue in life, they will rise into leadership roles if they can speak and write well.

Homeschooling through high school can be daunting to some parents. In Hacking High School: Rethinking the Teen Years, Andrew Pudewa discusses tricks and tips on hacking high school. Most of us have presuppositions about what high school is based on our own experience. Times are changing, and the opportunities for home educating high schoolers have grown rapidly. Many of these opportunities will save time, help your family avoid higher education debt, and give your teens a head start on their next decade of life. Andrew offers a smorgasbord of these ideas but cautions listeners that “you can’t do it all.”

Introduction to Public Speaking (IPS) is packed with resources for teachers as well. Armed with the included instructional videos of Andrew Pudewa teaching each lesson to a classroom and exemplars for each speech, teachers, regardless of their speech training, can confidently facilitate the lessons. The blog post “IPS in the Classroom” provides tips and suggestions for using IPS with your students. In the podcast “Speech Exemplars – Models to Imitate” (Episode 388), you and your students will enjoy hearing the stories behind some of the exemplar speeches in the course.

Introduction to Public Speaking has received rave reviews. Once you use the two weeks of free lessons, we think you will agree!

P.S. Don’t forget to use the code for free standard domestic shipping on any online order from December 26–January 6.

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