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- Welcome to this program on adding pizzazz to your classroom
presentations.
- To move through this program,
- Click the right arrow to move to the next slide;
- Click the left arrow to move to the previous slide.
- To revisit any section click the link at the bottom.
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- Articles and courses in classroom presentation skills often give
information on using multimedia.
- While slides, overheads, PowerPoint® presentations and video or DVD
tools can add interest, remember the facilitator is still the most
powerful teaching tool in the classroom.
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- We think training (orientation, inservice, continuing education, et al.)
should be fun for ALL learners.
- This program is dedicated to adding fun and interest and enhancing
learning when you train in the classroom.
- But we will focus on tools other than the multimedia technology you can
use. Most of the techniques are
simple to do and all of them inexpensive.
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- Learning is enhanced when learners are comfortable.
- Before you begin your class make
sure you:
- Provide adequate lighting; comfortable seating and room temperature,
and
- Provide at least water for refreshment.
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- Surroundings should be clean and pleasant.
- If your classroom isn’t the best,
try a few simple, low-cost things to spruce up the appearance.
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- Add attractive posters or pictures or even a few flowers.
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- Arrange the tables and chairs to encourage group participation.
- If the tables are battle-scarred, a simple white paper tablecloth can
clean up the appearance.
- You can even put crayons on each table and encourage participants to
doodle or take notes on the tablecloth, then throw it out after class.
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- Starting the class out the RIGHT way!
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- Icebreakers are widely used by educators to help create the kind of
learning environment that fosters communication, trust and fun.
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- Don’t just play a game for the sake of playing. Pick an activity that helps set the
tone for the class and link to the theme of the topic, when possible.
- Some activities are better suited when participants are strangers and
others are useful even if member of the class know and/or work with one
another.
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- Click here for instructions on “Blackout Bingo”
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- Click here for instructions on “The Interview and Introduction.”
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- Click here for instructions on “Accentuate the Positive.”
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- Click here for instructions on “Roll the Dice.”
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- Click here for instructions on “Truth and Lies.”
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- Music engages the right brain and offers the benefits of relaxation and
improved learning and retention – if you pick the right music for the
right activity.
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- If you want to relax learners while presenting material play soft music
in the background. If you want to
energize the group during upbeat activities play a little jazz.
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- If you want the subconscious to absorb information during a recitation
of material, play baroque music.
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- Play the music softly while reading a summary of material aloud to the
class. This can be done before
presenting the material or as a review.
- This type of presentation may be
referred to as a ‘concert’ or ‘recital’ in books and articles written on
whole brain learning, accelerated learning or neurolinguistic
programming.
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- Color helps stimulate right-brain learning.
- Keep a supply of colorful pens for flip charts or write-erase boards.
- Try some non-traditional colors, other than the usual green, red, black
and blue.
- Use colored paper for notes, handouts or posters.
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- If you class will last longer than 1 ½ hours plan for breaks, even if
they are only 5 or 10 minutes long.
- People need a chance to get up,
stretch, change positions and use the restroom. If you’re planning an extended class
(half-day or all day) plan for at least 15 minutes every 1 ½ to 2 hours.
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- Even if your class is relatively short remember to break up your
presentation into smaller sections.
- If you note attention lagging (this is a common problem after meal
breaks and late in the afternoon), stop for a moment, ask the group to
stand up, raise their arms in the air, shake their hands and shout.
- In a few seconds they will be ready to resume with a higher level of
attention.
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- Try to present 10 to 15 minute blocks with a planned reinforcement
activity that engages the learners.
- This can be as simple as posing a few questions to the class to review
the material just covered.
- Check out the section on “Games
People Play” for more suggestions.
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- Refocus
- If the group has had a break period and you need to help them refocus
attention, try a relaxation and concentration activity.
- Ask learners to sit comfortably in their chairs, backs straight, hands
resting comfortably on knees with eyes closed.
- Instruct learners to concentrate on slow deep breathing while feeling
the difference in temperature between the air breathed in and out
through their nostrils.
- Continue this activity for 30
seconds to a minute.
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- If you are using PowerPoint,
video or DVD tools you may have to dim the lights to improve visibility.
- You will also, however, increase
the chances of boredom and lagging attention among participants.
- Make sure you break this kind of
training into manageable bits and turn up the lights every 10 minutes or
so.
- Use this ‘illumination break’ as a time for a reinforcement activity
(refer “Games People Play” for examples).
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- Energizing activities and group work are excellent tools to reinforce
learning and capture the attention of adult learners.
- Groups engaged in this active learning can, however, become a bit rowdy
and noisy from time to time.
While this is good, you will need to bring them back to order.
- Never raise your voice and yell at the group to get their
attention. Try using a noisemaker
such as a clacker or clicker.
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- Another tool to regain classroom control without raising your voice is
the use of the “secret word” or other pre-arranged phrase.
- Select the word or phrase at the beginning of the class and tell them
you will use it when you need to refocus attention after a class
activity.
- Simply repeating the word or
phrase in a normal tone of voice until you have everyone’s attention is
very effective.
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- You might simply say repeatedly, “If you can hear my voice raise your
hand.”
- You will soon find everyone in
the class sitting quietly with hand raised and you will have their
undivided attention.
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- Click here for instructions on “The Windmill”
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- Click here for instructions on “The Parking Lot.”
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- Click here for instructions on “The Brain Game.”
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- Click here for instructions on “The Ball Toss.”
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- Click here for instructions on “The Five Question Review.”
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- Click here for instructions on using “Playing Cards.”
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- Click here for instructions on “True or False”.
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- Click here for instructions on “Analogies and Metaphors.”
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- Click here for instructions on “Synthesis Exercises.”
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- Click here for instructions on “The Group Teach.”
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- Try incorporating several of these tools in your class
- Mind Maps
- Posters/pictures
- Flip charts
- Models
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- Stimulate right brain and kinesthetic learners by fostering the use of
mind maps.
- You can begin by creating a mind map on a topic, using it as a class
handout, and encouraging participants to use it for taking additional
notes.
- These mind maps, or cluster diagrams can then be used for review later.
- After being introduced to the concept of mind maps you can simply hand
out a blank piece of paper and encourage participants to make their own
mind map of another topic or section presented.
- Check out the following example.
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- We notice our surrounding
environment and it has an impact on us whether we are aware of it or
not.
- Placing pictures or posters that
present information can enhance learning by engaging the subconscious
mind of the learner.
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- If you are teaching critical lab values or safety rules you can make
colorful posters representing a concept on each poster and placing the
posters on the walls or on easels around the room.
- You don’t need to draw attention to the posters or even mention
them. You may notice
participants glancing at the posters during class or even walking
around and looking at them during breaks.
- Remember to make the print on the posters large enough to read from a
distance ( at least 2 inches).
Make them neat, attractive and colorful. Present only one concept per poster.
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- Even small visual enhancements can help the learning process. You don’t need to be an artist.
- Dress up your flip charts by using colorful pens and stickers.
- You can find inexpensive stickers in any hobby, craft or the children’s
toy section of the discount store.
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- Competitive games between groups can be fun and energizing class
activities.
- While engaging groups in some of the previous activities you can create
a competitive atmosphere by awarding a prize to the first group that
finishes the assignment, or to every group that participates, or to the
group voted the most creative or innovative by the class, etc.
- Prizes can also be given to individuals who answer questions during a
review activity.
- Prizes can be as simple as play paper money, a piece of chewing gum, a
piece of candy, or an inexpensive sticker.
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- Prepare your training bag by gathering a few items that can be used in
your classroom presentations.
- Click here to review a list of simple and inexpensive training toys you
can include in your ‘bag of toys.”
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- To receive a certificate from NurseLearn for 2 inservice contact hours,
complete the test.
- Click here to answer the questions and submit the test.
- You will receive the certificate by return email.
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