Level Up: Adding a Persuasive Spin to Student Passion Projects

Description

How can you enhance student passion projects by integrating persuasive elements? When students move from sharing their projects to persuading an audience, they improve their communication skills, fostering critical thinking and effective argumentation. Join Natalie Mitchell for this hands-on, interactive workshop as we explore strategies for taking passion projects to the next level through student activism and audience, including how to take a "teach you all about it" passion project to a "here's why you should care" persuasive passion project. Get ready to elevate student engagement through passion projects that will inspire real change! Natalie's expertise as a literacy consultant will equip you with the essential tools and resources, empowering students to create impactful passion projects that inspire them to become conscious, aware citizens.

Objectives

1. Identify key strategies for adding persuasive elements to student passion projects.
2. Explain the importance of student activism and audience engagement in enhancing passion projects.
3. Implement techniques to help students transition from sharing to convincing in their projects.
4. Evaluate different approaches to integrating persuasive elements into student projects.
5. Assess the impact of persuasive passion projects on student engagement and learning outcomes.
6. Design lesson plans that incorporate persuasive elements into passion projects, fostering student activism and audience engagement.

Key Take Aways

• Learn how to transform passion projects by integrating persuasive elements that elevate student work and engagement.
• Discover methods to encourage student activism through projects that aim to convince and inspire real change.
• Explore techniques for guiding students to effectively engage and persuade their audience, making their projects more impactful.
• Gain insights into developing students' persuasive communication skills, preparing them to be conscious and aware citizens.