4 3 2 1 Non-Verbal Skills Eye Holds attention of the Uses eye contact, may Minimal eye contact with Virtually no eye contact Contact/Poise audience with direct and focus mainly on one or two audience members with audience members varied eye contact audience members Presents with mild tension; Presents with tension; Relaxed self-confident Presents comfortably; movement(s) do not movement(s) or lack of manner, movement(s) movement(s) are aligned enhance presentation, may movement detracts from enhance presentation, with presentation, struggle to recover from presentation, significant quickly recovers from any recovers from any any mistakes struggle to recover from mistakes mistakes any mistakes Volume Uses a voice so all Uses a relatively clear Uses a voice that is too soft Uses a voice too quiet for audience members can voice, most audience or too loud, audience the majority of audience to easily hear presentation members can hear members may have hear presentation presentation difficulty hearing Correct pronunciation of presentation Mumbles, incorrectly words, no fillers (um, so, Mostly correct pronounces words, etc.) pronunciation of words, Incorrectly pronounces repetitive use of fillers minimal use of fillers (um, some words, use of fillers (um, so, etc.) strong, positive so, etc.) (um, so, etc.) feelings about topic Shows negative feelings or throughout presentation positive feelings minimal positive no emotions during about topic during most of emotions about topic presentation presentation during presentation
Non-Verbal Skills 4 3 2 1 Eye Contact/Poise Holds attention of the audience with direct and varied eye contact Relaxed self-confident manner, movement(s) enhance presentation, quickly recovers from any mistakes Uses eye contact, may focus mainly on one or two audience members Presents comfortably; movement(s) are aligned with presentation, recovers from any mistakes Minimal eye contact with audience members Presents with mild tension; movement(s) do not enhance presentation, may struggle to recover from any mistakes Virtually no eye contact with audience members Presents with tension; movement(s) or lack of movement detracts from presentation, significant struggle to recover from any mistakes Volume Uses a voice so all audience members can easily hear presentation Correct pronunciation of words, no fillers (um, so, etc.) strong, positive feelings about topic throughout presentation Uses a relatively clear voice, most audience members can hear presentation Mostly correct pronunciation of words, minimal use of fillers (um, so, etc.) positive feelings about topic during most of presentation Uses a voice that is too soft or too loud, audience members may have difficulty hearing presentation Incorrectly pronounces some words, use of fillers (um, so, etc.) minimal positive emotions about topic during presentation Uses a voice too quiet for the majority of audience to hear presentation Mumbles, incorrectly pronounces words, repetitive use of fillers (um, so, etc.) Shows negative feelings or no emotions during presentation
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