👋 Welcome to Oracy Unpacked - a group for teachers who want to help their students speak up.
Whether you're taking on the oracy lead role, embedding speaking school-wide, or just curious to go deeper on the topic - you're in the right place.
💥 This works through collaboration. Written or spoken, it counts as speaking up - tell me what's useful and what you'd like me to expand on.
What you'll find here 🙌
- Frameworks and ladders for naming - and ordering - the parts of oracy beyond public speaking
- Language: how to talk about talking, key terminology etc.
- Audit & embed: finding where speaking already happens
- Explicit skills: like thinking on your feet
- A place to geek out together - I bring the research, you bring the classroom
About me: ex-teacher, now writer and researcher into transformative, collaborative speech. I was the shy student holding back in class - now I've written ten books, done a TEDx talk in Kazakhstan, and make videos online.
Can't wait to talk to you!
Joanne Whitlock