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Simply put, you never want to focus on yourself, your testimony, or your narratives. Rather, you want
to keep the audience as your primary focus. Will they understand what you're saying? Can they relate to your
narratives? Are you providing them with enough examples to encourage them to go out and make a change?
As an added bonus, keeping the focus on them (and not on you) will help keep your nervousness at bay.
5. Conclude With a Compelling Thought
Like the hook, the manner in which you close is also important. We humans are so fickle and distracted,
it's very possible your audience will walk out of the room and forget everything you just said.
But, you can stay with them if you can close in a manner that lingers in their mind. Ask them to take
some sort of action. Ask them to step outside their busy lives and do something peculiar to them. Or, you
can simply ask a rhetorical question that they can answer within their own minds. A motivational speech is a
persuasive speech. You want to foster some type of positive change.
Many struggling readers and writers have decided that improving their reading and writing skills is
not worth the effort. Teachers may not know what to do when confronted with students who do not or will
not read or write. When school leaders are aware of the connection between student motivation, engagement,
and achievement, and know the strategies and practices that have been effective in breaking through students'
resistance, they can support necessary changes in classroom environments, instructional practices, and school
culture. Principals can support teachers' professional development, sponsor discussions among teachers about
what they can do to infuse their content-area teaching with the effective practices mentioned in this chapter,
and ensure that classroom environments and instruction include a strong focus on student motivation and
engagement. Caring teachers, along with instructional and environmental supports, can go a long way to
turning around a history of failure for many adolescent readers and writers.
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