Presentation time is your key opportunity to share your knowledge. This is the part of the session where you lead the discussion and participants listen. To help keep everyone interested and engaged, keep your direct instruction segments concise and break them up with small bursts of interaction.
To support participant understanding, it’s useful to include examples and / or demonstrations of the teaching points or new skills you are discussing. You might choose to give participants a brief opportunity to identify or attempt a skill in a small way. For example, in an editing workshop, you may ask participants to spot certain errors in an example you have provided.
Most presentations are supported by a slide deck. These can include your key teaching points, examples, graphic organizers, images, videos, links and other relevant material. Slides can serve both as a visual aid for participants and as a prompt for yourself. In Section 4 of this course, we’ll explore in more detail how to plan and create effective and accessible slides.
Slides can be used to help increase engagement, especially during longer presentations. Consider including:
- Short examples
- Models or demonstrations
- Brief readings or writing excerpts
- Mini-activities
- Quick reflection questions