Student Tools

A great speech is creative and inspiring, but is also based in a real understanding of your topic. Do your research! Here are a few links to get you started but remember….every entry will start with these links so you will want to build out your argument with other resources if you want to really stand out from the crowd!

• Check out this great video lesson (distance learning-friendly!) focused on the UN’s education goal and encouraging you to think about how you would redesign the education system…PERFECT food for thought for your Speech Up! video.

• This video lesson will give you a good background in how access to a quality education varies around the world.

• You may also want to explore this article, which summarizes 10 barriers to education around the world.

• There are also some very specific barriers to girls’ education you may want to consider. See this article for example or this very practical article.

• You may want to spend some time on our website and blog reading stories about our current students in Mali to better understand real stories of real people struggling to make the most of their education.

• Our prompt this year asks you to create an argument that relates to the the United Nation’s Sustainability Goal 4. Do you know what the Sustainability Goals are? You will after you watch this short video module.

• There are so many more great resources out there! Remember, these resources are starting points for your research — keep digging to present your case.