Title: Speaker Lesson Plans Author: Beth Soderberg Published: April 26, 2016 --- [ ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bethsoderberg/) [Beth Soderberg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bethsoderberg/) 3:03 pm _on_ April 26, 2016   # Speaker Lesson Plans There are some almost-done lesson plans that will make up a speaker workshop track. The background on these is that some awesome people in Vancouver and elsewhere ran special workshops to encourage more diversity in speakers at WordCamps in their area. They then turned those workshops into lesson plans. Though the lesson plans aren’t quite done, they have been _almost done_ for a very long time. I connected with [@jillbinder](https://wordpress.slack.com/team/jillbinder), who had spearheaded the workshops and these plans, in advance of WCUS this past winter and she and I created a list of very specific tasks that need to happen with these plans in order for them to be considered “done.” We didn’t go through these tasks at the WCUS contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of [https://make.wordpress.org/](https://make.wordpress.org/) There are many teams that people can participate in, each with a different focus. [https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/](https://make.wordpress.org/support/handbook/getting-started/getting-started-at-a-contributor-day/) because of how the team reoriented at that time. I think this is a fairly interconnected list of individually manageable tasks and I am expecting that we’ll run into some minor questions as we’re reconciling all of these things. The speaker workshop will contain the following lesson plans: * [Finding a Topic for a WordPress Talk](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/speaker-training/finding-a-topic-for-a-wordpress-talk/) * [Creating Your WordPress Talk](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/speaker-training/creating-your-wordpress-talk/) * [Writing the Pitch for your WordPress Talk](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/speaker-training/writing-the-pitch-for-your-wordpress-talk/) * [Becoming a Better Speaker](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/speaker-training/becoming-a-better-speaker/) * [Creating Great Slides](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/speaker-training/creating-great-slides/) * [Imposter Syndrome](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/speaker-training/imposter-syndrome/)( this is an optional addition to the workshop that has not been started) For all speaker plans, we need to: 1. Create consistency by changing all places in the plans where , , or anything else like that appears to read or . 2. Change spelling throughout to correspond with American English. 3. Change any reference to “module” to “lesson plan.” These plans were written when we were still calling lesson plans “modules.” 4. Read through and make sure any women-specific language is taken out of the lesson plans (above) and workbooks (see item #6 in this list). The original pilot workshops were geared towards women. 5. Make sure the teacher notes for each plan match what is in [this Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/14NbGJgTexwUyshd8iNxh2UqoDGaHiKBW3IPUzQPIdcs/edit). 6. The [handouts that were made for the original workshop](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xwuRh5jstoA6iOaUQPQOo-0Ls_exzyQooX1Q00CHJiQ/edit?usp=sharing) need to be split up so that each handout corresponds to a lesson plan and that they are not bundled as one big workbook. 7. The agenda is incomplete in the description parts of the plans and could be added once any incongruities with the Vancouver script are clarified (see below tasks). In relation to specific plans: 1. [Finding a Topic for a WordPress Talk](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/speaker-training/finding-a-topic-for-a-wordpress-talk/)– go through content and exercises and decide what to merge from the [Vancouver script Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YUFz_DyjL8W3cFhKFlL8uFOEmWQBfliJXKrGYfhH-RE/edit#heading=h.pf9ro375yw8t). 2. [Creating Your WordPress Talk](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/speaker-training/creating-your-wordpress-talk/)– this plan needs to be created from the [Vancouver script Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YUFz_DyjL8W3cFhKFlL8uFOEmWQBfliJXKrGYfhH-RE/edit#heading=h.pf9ro375yw8t). 3. [Writing the Pitch for your WordPress Talk](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/speaker-training/writing-the-pitch-for-your-wordpress-talk/)– go through content and exercises and decide what to merge from the [Vancouver script Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YUFz_DyjL8W3cFhKFlL8uFOEmWQBfliJXKrGYfhH-RE/edit#heading=h.pf9ro375yw8t). 4. [Imposter Syndrome](https://make.wordpress.org/training/handbook/speaker-training/imposter-syndrome/)– The [materials that were open sourced by the Ada Initiative](https://adainitiative.org/2015/10/19/help-teach-women-to-overcome-impostor-syndrome/) can be adapted into an optional imposter syndrome training. We are looking for a few volunteers to help with going through this list and helping to get the speaker workshop past the finish line and into copy editing and testing. If you can help with any of the tasks listed out here, please pipe up in the comments! 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[toniaslimm](https://profiles.wordpress.org/toniaslimm/) 5:32 pm _on_ April 26, 2016 3. I am interested in taking on, Creating your WordPress Talk. 4. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/19aaaab5b8bd4e69e658865958076e39950c4162f5f884ef9bcda3bed3f8e010? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [bethsoderberg](https://profiles.wordpress.org/bethsoderberg/) 6:08 pm _on_ April 26, 2016 * Great! Am assigning that plan your way now 🙂 - ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/b057687bc043084d52cb7f99df450ce2b6ea2504dfa6c44fa913c48e001b5546? s=32&d=mm&r=g) - [toniaslimm](https://profiles.wordpress.org/toniaslimm/) 6:53 pm _on_ April 26, 2016 - 🙂 Thank you! 5. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/30d95d5d89a4507a99707b69f27440d2ae45b20667224648415aed7c3d354c16? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 6. [melindahelt](https://profiles.wordpress.org/melindahelt/) 4:01 pm _on_ April 27, 2016 7. I can’t volunteer to take on any of these at this time (working on Tier 2 plans), but I know [@rkoffy](https://profiles.wordpress.org/rkoffy/) (and a few others from NE Ohio) have spoken on Imposter Syndrome a few times at WCs. Perhaps they also have some materials that can be folded into this LP. 8. Pingback: [Training Team Update for April 27, 2016 – Make.WordPress.Org Updates](https://make.wordpress.org/updates/2016/04/28/training-team-update-for-april-27-2016/) 9. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c9dd46c79b7701fe634e73ce1665d27a04d710b53c1dd901f4ba49b5bc97a064? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 10. [Jill Binder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jillbinder/) 9:07 am _on_ June 15, 2017 11. #1 and #2 under “all speaker plans” are complete 12. * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c9dd46c79b7701fe634e73ce1665d27a04d710b53c1dd901f4ba49b5bc97a064? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Jill Binder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jillbinder/) 9:11 am _on_ June 15, 2017 * #3 under “all speaker plans” also complete * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c9dd46c79b7701fe634e73ce1665d27a04d710b53c1dd901f4ba49b5bc97a064? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Jill Binder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jillbinder/) 9:38 am _on_ June 15, 2017 * #5 under “all speaker plans” also complete * ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c9dd46c79b7701fe634e73ce1665d27a04d710b53c1dd901f4ba49b5bc97a064? s=32&d=mm&r=g) * [Jill Binder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jillbinder/) 2:56 pm _on_ June 15, 2017 * #4 under “all speaker plans” is complete * Under specific plans, I have completed: #1 – Finding a Topic #2 – Creating Your Talk #3 – Writing a Pitch * I’ve almost finished: – Becoming a Better Speaker (not listed above) – Slides( not listed above) (All that’s left on these two items is re-reading them to make sure they flow well and deciding if the intro sections are relevant to these. I plan to complete these in the next couple of days, but noting them here just in case that doesn’t happen.) 13. ![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/c9dd46c79b7701fe634e73ce1665d27a04d710b53c1dd901f4ba49b5bc97a064? s=32&d=mm&r=g) 14. [Jill Binder](https://profiles.wordpress.org/jillbinder/) 1:56 pm _on_ June 19, 2017 15. The reason I have added “[and Diversity Speaker Outreach]” to all of the titles is because at WCEU I talked to folks who were doing diversity outreach work and who had seen that there are speaker training lessons but who had ignored them not realizing it was for outreach. ### Leave a Reply 󠀁[Cancel reply](https://make.wordpress.org/training/2016/04/26/speaker-lesson-plans/?output_format=md#respond)󠁿 You must be [logged in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fmake.wordpress.org%2Ftraining%2F2016%2F04%2F26%2Fspeaker-lesson-plans%2F&locale=en_US) to post a comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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