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Lesson: Making an Effective Presentation

Description

Once students have created a clear, articulate, engaging presentation, they need to learn how to effectively deliver their presentation. Whether discussing a diorama, poster, or making a PowerPoint presentation, there are certain guidelines that students need to consider. While this lesson will use a PowerPoint presentation as the vehicle for looking at guidelines for making an effective presentation, the guidelines apply to any type of presentation students might make.

Learning Outcomes   I   Suggested Procedure   I   Assessment    for this Lesson

Learning Outcomes

Students will learn the "Dos and Don'ts" of making an effective presentation
Students will practice their presentations using identified effective presentation "Dos and Don'ts"

Set-up

• Have students in their presentation groups
  
• Computer hooked up to a TV, LCD panel, or video projector and screen in place.
  

Suggested Procedure

Tell students that they will be making their presentations in the next couple of days to their parents and other students in the school so they will need to practice. Tell students that there are guidelines for making presentations that they need to learn if they are going to be effective presenters.

The teacher asks the class for volunteers who would like to practice in front of the class and act as a teaching tool so the teacher can point out the "dos and don'ts" of effective presenting.

• The teacher chooses a group that has resilient students who can take criticism, also known as constructive feedback.
  
• The teacher informs the rest of the class that they need to take out a piece of paper from their note books, divide it into two columns, and label one column "Dos" and the other column "Don'ts."
• The teacher tells the chosen group that he/she will interrupt them often during the presentation to point out what should and should not be done during a presentation. He/she asks the group to begin.

As the group does something appropriate for presenting, the teacher stops the group and points it out.

As the group does something inappropriate, the teacher also stops the group and points that out.

He/she reminds the rest of the class to take notes on the "Dos and Don'ts" of presenting .

When the group has finished the presentation, the teacher asks the class if they have any other "Dos and Don'ts of presenting that he/she might not have addressed.Students share any "Dos and Don'ts" not addressed by the teacher and discuss.

The teacher collects students' "Dos and Don'ts" papers and at a later time collates students ideas into a 10 Tips for Making a Presentation check-off sheet for the students.

The students finish the rest of the class time practicing their presentations incorporating the "Dos and Don'ts" suggestions by the teacher and students.

Assessment

The assessment for this lesson is the effective presentation by the students. As students make their presentations, the teacher uses the Tips for Successful Presentations or the students' generated list of "Dos and Don'ts" as a guideline for assessing students' presentations.

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This page was last updated April 8, 2002 This lesson was created to support the AT&T/UCLA Initiatives for 21st Century Literacies. Determining Authority and Accuracy was created by Sharon Sutton