Speak Up – PTSA Secondary Oracy Project
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07/03/2022
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Speak Up – PTSA Secondary Oracy Project
SPEAKING up.
So much in life depends on our ability to talk cogently about our thoughts and ideas. But, somehow, oracy, the critical skill of communicating orally, has slipped off the school agenda. In spite of the proven and immediate effects it can have on learners’ progress, confidence, wellbeing and future employability, only a very few schools have started making oracy a central part of the curriculum.
At PTSA we are a leader in a nationwide movement to get secondary schools speaking again. We firmly believe not just in the central importance of oracy across all subjects and levels, but in the range of new and exciting, results-based methodologies for teaching it.
Now we have pulled together those approaches into a comprehensive and systematic 9-module course to share with our colleagues across our city. Available this spring, Speaking Up offers fresh, eye-opening ideas and techniques which you can put into action straight away. An opportunity to make oracy the learning priority it deserves to be.
Speaking up, The comprehensive, school-wide key to oracy for secondary teachers.
This programme is fully funded by the Plymouth Secondary Commission and PTSA, each secondary school is entitled to send 3 delegates, including a senior leader responsible for delivering whole school improvement to the launch on March 7th 2022, these colleagues will be the Oracy leads and implementation champions through out the project. PTSA have developed 9 digital modules that are available as self-study to all school staff, these modules are supported by 3 live seminars as well as PTSA Oracy leads on call for bespoke support as you need it.
| Phase/Timeline | Face to face | Self-study | Detail | Optional Seminar (live and recorded) |
| Introduction
End Feb 2022 + release of Phase 1 Modules 1-3 (self-study) |
Oracy Launch – Importance of Oracy and Educational Landscape (1.5 hours) | |||
| Phase 1
Getting pupils Talking
Engagement Window: Spring 2
Live Seminar: w/c March TBC + release of Modules 4-6 |
Module 1
The Oracy Framework + Exploring the 4 strands of Oracy (1 hour self-study) |
Importance of oracy – studies, research and data
Talk for learning Whole school drive 4 strands of Oracy – explain and develop |
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| Module 2
Foundational Building Blocks for Oracy (1 hour self-study) |
Starting points
Assessment framework Whole school considerations Groups / talk protocols/ discussion rules Sentence stems |
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| Module 3
Effective task setting and planning (recorded session) (1 hour self-study) |
Talk roles
Planning a talk task |
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| Live seminar
Economist Foundation (Using News through Oracy) 2 hours |
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| Phase 2
Developing the Quality of Talk
Engagement window: Summer April
Mod 6 Face-to-Face w/c 23 May TBC + release of Modules 7-9 |
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Module 4
Planning for whole school impact (2 hour and project action planning) with case study & keynote: James Mannion (Introducing Oracy in a secondary school) |
EEF implementation guidance
Support for whole school implementation Design a whole school implementation project |
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| Optional seminar to support in school projects. | ||||
| Module 5
Effective Vocabulary Instruction (2 hours self-study) |
Closing the word gap
Breadth/depth of vocabulary The explicit teaching of vocabulary The 3 tiers framework |
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| Module 6
Functional language (1 hour self-study) |
Embedding functional language
Subject specific language Academic language |
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| Live seminar
Classics for All (Morphology and Etymology) 1 hour |
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| Phase 3
Deepening and embedding the quality of interaction
Engagement window: Summer June |
Module 7
Dialogic and exploratory talk (1.5 hours self-study) |
Exploring the cognitive strand
The dialogic teaching framework 7 talk moves |
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| Live seminar
A case study – Oracy implementation in a Secondary School |
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| Module 8
Deepening exploratory talk (1 hour self-study) |
Embedding the talk moves
Developing the 4 strands across the curriculum |
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| Module 9
Retrieval practice and recall (1 hour self-study) |
Using talk to embed learning
Activities to support retrieval |
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| Conclusion
July |
Project submission | |||
| Oracy implementation Plan Showcase and celebration event |
