School speech topics can be hard to come up with. After all, they need to be appealing to students yet also engaging for the teacher (who, after all, controls the grade). The topic must be appropriate and easy to give a good speech on. Here’s a few speech topics for school.

• Standardized testing. What does it measure? Is it good or bad? What are alternatives?
• How to cheat and not get caught. Just kidding on this one. Make it the title of an anti-cheating speech and you’ll catch some ears.
• History of the school. How did it get it’s name? How long has the building been around? What neat things have happened there?
• Best campus food (or dining hall tricks, or cafeteria lines… anything food-related). Both teachers and students need to eat.
• Ways to save money while in school. Teacher’s salaries aren’t spectacular. Neither are student’s.
• Time management. Both teachers and students carry a load. Explore how to balance it more effectively.
• The value of education. Just don’t brown-nose too much.
• The place of technology in education. How do computers help and hinder education? Cell phones? Ipods? What potential have we not yet tapped?
• Staying fit at school. School involves a lot of sitting and sedentary activity. What can you do to stay physically fit?
• Practical applications of school subjects. Sometimes the things learned in school can seem somewhat… useless. Why do they matter? How can you use them?
• List of moreSchool Speech TopicsGeneral
  1. The life and times of _____ (e.g. Abraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar/ Winston Churchill/ Bob Dylan)
  2. My Pop Idol (Give a speech on John Lennon, Elvis or someone similar)
  3. The evolution of _____ (e.g. the railway locomotive headlamp)
  4. On this day in history
  5. When will man get to Mars?
  6. The first Moon Landing
  7. Top Internet searches
  8. The Darwin Awards
  9. Origami in action – Show how you can make things out of paper (prepare some paper examples for the audience)
  10. Colour blindness
  11. 25 uses for a _____ (paperclip/ tennis ball/ bus ticket)
  12. Who says that crime doesn’t pay?
  13. My dream holiday (e.g. Walking a donkey in Ireland)
  14. Does wearing the Hijab (the scarf worn over the head) give a muslim women more freedom?
  15. Why the Titanic sank?
  16. Just how long do we expect to live?
  17. How much do we need to save for a comfortable life?
  18. Formula one
  19. Healthy Eating
  20. 5 easy to grow vegetables
  21. How to make a perfect soufle
  22. How to have your cake and eat it
  23. What I’d do if I won the lottery
  24. Anglicized spanish words
  25. 21 things to do with your
  26. internet connection
  27. The race for the White House
  28. How cheap will PCs become?

  History

• The six wives of Henry 8th
• The spanish civil war
• The rise of Nazism
• Decline and fall of the Roman Empire
• 1066 and all that
• The Gettysburg address
• Roman military hardware
• The telegraph: the ‘internet’ of the 19th Century
• Who invented the internet? Nature
  1. Wolves in the living room – how the wolf evolved into of the domestic dog
  2. The secret life of an eel
  3. Is an owl really wise?
  4. A day in the life of a Beluga Whale
  5. Why Dolphins jump out of the water
  6. Cats and lions – how do they compare?

  Books

  1. All quiet on the western front
  2. Little Women
  3. Pride and Prejudice
  4. Tom Sawyer
  5. A tale of two cities

  Business

  1. Why businesses fail
  2. Test marketing your idea
  3. 10 easy marketing ideas
  4. Time management for dummies
  5. Emotional Intelligence
  6. The One Minute Manager
  7. Equal Opportunities

These school speech topics should help you build a speech that matters to both teachers and students. Mix in some humor, get excited, and speak well!

Vishal Jain