I had the wonderful opportunity to observe Riva’s Year 3 English student. She did such a good job helping her student work on reading and writing.
They worked on writing and practicing a speech for a class project. They went through editing the creative story that she had previously come up with. They then went through tools on how to memorise a speech, such as understanding the key concepts and topics in each sentence. Riva was great in letting her student speak aloud her response and when she got stuck she would give her some hints to help her recall the next phrase, this helped her student to stay back on track.
Riva and her student kept going over the speech, which helped her build confidence when public speaking.
They also went through public speaking strategies such as having constant eye contact, speaking loudly, taking good pauses between speaking and slowing down her pace as she tended to speak faster when she was nervous.
They also went through hand gestures to use to help explain her story.
Her student asked lots of questions on how to best practice the response so it was great to see how invested her student was in wanting to improve her public speaking skills.
Riva’s student kept practicing through the session and by the end she was able to memorise most of the words.
The first time she read it out she didn’t know what she was going to say next, so she didn’t sound very confident, yet after all her practice she sounded a lot more confident as she had a clear understanding of what was happening next.
Riva did such a great job and should be so proud of herself! Great session! Such a pleasure to observe. Keep it up!
Ashley Cohen
