Presentation and Communication in a
Learner-Centered Classroom
Session Leader: Dr. Rosalind Warner, College Professor
Political Science, Okanagan College
University of British Columbia Okanagan
Centre for Teaching and Learning Annual Conference
“Enhancing Student Learning”
Content of the
message…
Form of the
message…
Shorter
sentences
Pauses &
emphasis
Repetition
& use of
three
• 7 ounces finely chopped
bittersweet or semisweet
chocolate
• 4 tablespoons unsalted
butter
• 1 1/2 teaspoons pure
vanilla extract
“I’ll be floating like a
butterfly and stinging
like a bee.” –
~Muhammed Ali
“Government is like a
baby. An alimentary
canal with a big
appetite at one end and
no sense of
responsibility at the
other.”
~Ronald Reagan
“If I have seen further, it is by standing on
the shoulders of giants.”
~Isaac Newton
Democracies Have:
Non-Democracies have:
• Pluralism
• The rule of law
• Accountability
• Fewer participants
• Arbitrary rule
• No accountability
“Those who cast the votes decide
nothing, those who count the
votes decide everything.”
~Joseph Stalin
“That’s one small step for man, one giant
leap for mankind.” ~Neil Armstrong
“It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
~The Bible
What is the
meaning of
spaghetti?
Terminology
Concept &
Application
Critical &
Higher
Order
Thinking
• My Evolution as a Teacher/Learner
• How I see ‘Lecturing’
Rosalind Warner
rowarner@okanagan.bc.ca
Okanagan College Institute for Learning
and Teaching:
http://ilt.okanagan.bc.ca/
Blog: http://rozwarner.wordpress.com/
• List three things that you saw me do or say in this
presentation that improved the communication
• Write the most complex/long winded or difficult
sentence you can think of from your discipline…
• Now simplify it as much as you can
• Convert the following bullet list into a narrative or
sequence
• Make comparative sentences from each the following
• Develop a question that might be a basis for an entire
lecture in your discipline
“The lure of
imaginary totality is
momentarily frozen
before the dialectic
of desire hastens on
within symbolic
chains.”
Making Monstrous: Frankenstein,
Criticism, Theory, by Fred Botting
(Manchester University Press, 1991)