Geog 106LRS - Prof. Fischer
Class Presentation
Here are instructions for your class presentations. Please read and save for
reference.
I've written up a rubric for your presentations and posted it under downloads/misc.
It's primarily based on your ideas from class the other day. I recognize that most of
the lessons I plan don't score perfectly on this rubric, and do not expect perfection
from you. More details are on the rubric which would do well to read before
preparing your presentation.
To get at the "equality of work" issue, each student will receive a separate
evaluation, but one of the categories includes integrating your portion of the lesson
with the other students. Most groups will have 3 students, some will have 2. In
either case, the total combined lesson is to be 15 minutes in length.
Please work with your fellow students to have an integrated lesson. I would much
rather have one integrated lesson than three separate mini-lessons where each
person in the group just covers one standard in isolation. I encourage hands-on
learning activities and I discourage the idea of throwing up a five-minute video.
Brief animations, however, can be quite helpful. The book’s website has many as do
other sites. It’s more important to spend time understanding the topic than to
spend time locating the perfect animation or slide.
If you want to use the computer projector, please email me your files the
night before, and whether or not that is possible, please also bring them on
a thumb drive.
Important tips:
You are to teach your fellow students at the college level. You want to make sure that
they leave understanding the subject areas related to your assigned standards. The
frameworks (posted under Downloads) give a better idea of the range of topics related
to each standard and give some ideas on how to teach them. My advice is to look at the
standard, see how the framework expands upon that standard, and then look in your
text to see how it treats those subjects.
If the assigned standards are too broad for you to cover adequately in 15 minutes, I
would much rather have you work on thoroughly teaching part of the material and
leave me to teach the rest of the topic, rather than have you just touch on everything
without achieving any in-depth learning in your students.
Please practice your lesson, especially if you are going to give a lecture for most of
it. The more you practice, the better it will go. Ten times through is a good number
of practice runs while you are getting accustomed to teaching.
For any lecture portion, please learn your talk so you can TALK to us with minimal
reference to notes. Speakers who READ to an audience might as well hand out
sleeping pills.
Geog 106LRS - Prof. Fischer
Tips on public speaking abound. You might get some mileage out of
http://polisci.lsa.umich.edu/documents/howtotalk.pdf
If you use powerpoint:
Do use simple backgrounds.
Do use consistent fonts and background and font colors throughout.
Do not use distracting transitions, flashing or moving text unless you have a
very good reason. The time spent animating powerpoint slides is much
better spent on content than things that distract from content.