Improving Voice and Presentation Skills for Instructors Program

In this program, participants will meet once a week over for five 3-hour sessions. This activity-based program features a series of four short presentations, each designed to support the development of key voice and presentation skills. These presentations serve as a practical framework for integrating essential techniques, including: Volume, diction, emphasis, pausing, connection, reframing, calmness and confidence.

Through the delivery of presentations, participants will:

-Strengthen their sense of confidence and self-assurance;

-Demonstrate vocal volume and clarity;

-Employ enhanced diction;

-Display physical elegance and appropriate forms of physical gesture;

-Reflect on how various performative skills contribute to listener comprehension and engagement;

-Deepen the awareness of their impact of performative techniques through peer and instructor feedback.

Sessions will be held 1:00pm-4:00pm in-person in West Mall Centre 1384. The session dates go as follows:

-January 21
-January 28
-February 4
-February 11
-Feburary 25

*No session during Reading Week (Feb 18)

Facilitated by Sanders Whiting