Speak Up: Performance Activities to Build Your Students' Confidence

Particularly in adolescence, students may have brilliant ideas, but a plethora of emotions and social anxieties preventing them from sharing. To encourage speaking up in any class, this workshop will give you some warm-up activities and techniques that will help your students tiptoe towards the front of the class, increasing comfort and community. From audience engagement exercises to performance games, you'll find an arsenal of activities to slowly ease your students out of their shell in whatever way feels best! Session Objectives: 1. Gaining classroom-ready skills that can be applied on Monday 2. Getting real, hands-on writing ideas that give a fresh spin to creative writing & literary devices.