{"id":1516,"date":"2012-06-01T13:34:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/presentation-skills-blog.co.uk\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2012-06-01T13:34:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T13:34:28","slug":"presentation-skills-in-schools-taught","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/presentation-skills-in-schools-taught\/","title":{"rendered":"Presentation skills in schools&#8230; Taught?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve no idea how it&#8217;s taken us over a week to spot this one (C&#8217;mon Google Alerts, pull your finger out!) but the Shadow Education Secretary, Stephen Twigg has floated the idea that presentation skills should be a (compulsory?) part of the school curriculum. (See here: <a title=\"presentation skills in schools\" href=\" http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-18176952\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/education-18176952<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Given our experience of training people in making presentations, it&#8217;s hard to argue with that approach, to be honest. It does beg on (big!) question though \u00a0&#8211; who&#8217;s going to teach it?<\/p>\n<p>My guess is that it&#8217;ll get hived off to someone like the drama teacher (Hey, you know about being on stage, right?) or maybe the teacher who doesn&#8217;t un-volunteer for the extra work fast enough. Perhaps it&#8217;ll be an extra responsibility for the Life Skills\/Citizenship\/Whatever-you-call-them team.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a thought, why not get them taught be professionals?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, okay, I&#8217;ve got a vested interest! :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve no idea how it&#8217;s taken us over a week to spot this one (C&#8217;mon Google Alerts, pull your finger out!) but the Shadow Education Secretary, Stephen Twigg has floated the idea that presentation skills [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}