ReadingTown

Presentation

리딩타운의 프리젠테이션 많은 학생들이 어려워하는 발표 능력을 강화하도록 고안되었습니다. 여러 수준별로 마련된 다양한 프로그램 속에서 학생들은 설득력있는 주장을 발표하고 논리적인 방법으로 자신의 관점을 표현하기 위한 지침을 배우게 됩니다.

ReadingTown Approach

리딩타운에서는 Reading 프로그램 안에서도 학생들이 책의 내용과 등장인물, 배경, 갈등 등에 대해서 선생님과 토론을 할 수 있도록 프로그램을 개정하였습니다. 학생들은 프리젠테이션을 하기 전에 토론에 대한 충분한 경험을 함으로 프리젠테이션으로 자연스럽게 발전하게 됩니다.
리딩타운에서는 학생들의 프리젠테이션 능력의 향상을 위해 녹음과 녹화를 위한 멀티미디어 기계를 활용합니다.
리딩타운에서는 주어진 주제에 대해 학생들이 한 발표에 대해 저장할 수 있는 PinPoint라는 웹프로그램을 개발하였습니다.
리딩타운에서는 Common Core 기준에 맞추어 아래와 같은 새로운 커리큘럼을 추가했습니다.
- (1)Show & Tell: 저학년 학생들이 발표에 대한 두려움을 없애고 사람들 앞에서 자신의 생각을 발표하는 훈련을 하는 프로그램
- (2)Speech: 자신의 의견을 타당한 논리와 사실을 활용해서 사람들에게 전달하는 훈련을 하는 프로그램
- (3)Public Forum: 학년 레벨에 맞는 주제와 내용으로 다양한 상대와 통합적인 토론을 진행함으로써 자신의 의견을 정확하고 논리적으로 표현하는 훈련을 하는 프로그램

Introduction

To build a foundation for college and career readiness, students must have ample opportunities to take part in a variety of rich, structured conversations-as part of a whole class, in small groups, and with a partner. Being productive members of these conversations requires that students contribute accurate, relevant information; respond to and develop what others have said; make comparisons and contrasts; and analyze and synthesize a multitude of ideas in various domains.

New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. Digital texts confront students with the potential for continually updated content and dynamically changing combinations of words, graphics, images, hyperlinks, and embedded video and audio.

Standards

The standards require that students gain, evaluate, and present increasingly complex information, ideas, and evidence through listening and speaking as well as through media.

An important focus of the speaking and listening standards is academic discussion in one-on-one, small-group, and whole-class settings. Formal presentations are one important way such talk occurs, but so is the more informal discussion that takes place as students collaborate to answer questions, build understanding, and solve problems.

Including but not limited to skills necessary for formal presentations, the Speaking and Listening standards require students to develop a range of broadly useful oral communication and interpersonal skills. Students must learn to work together, express and listen carefully to ideas, integrate information from oral, visual, quantitative, and media sources, evaluate what they hear, use media and visual displays strategically to help achieve communicative purposes, and adapt speech to context and task.

Just as media and technology are integrated in school and life in the twenty-first century, skills related to media use (both critical analysis and production of media) are integrated throughout the standards.

Comprehension and Collaboration

Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others' ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
Evaluate a speaker's point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.

Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas

Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.
Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.