Methods To Make The Power Point Presentation Effective For Teaching And Learning

                        Since I didn't attend the class last week so I have refer to Jasmine to know the seven methods to make the power point presentation effective for teaching and learning. How to ensure that we as teachers provide an effective power point slides to deliver our knowledge to the students.

            

                       Firstly, we should choose proper and suitable colour tone for our power point slides. This is to ensure that students are able to read the words in the slides clearly. If we use too dull and striking colour tones, students might have difficulties to read the slides. This will indirectly influence them not to pay attention in the classroom. Therefore, to avoid that, teachers must use only few suitable colour tones for their power point slides to make sure that they have the attention of their students.

                       Next, teachers are advice to use simple animation. This is because complicated or too many animation can cause the students to get confused with what they are viewing on the screen and they tend to lost concentration. Therefore, teachers should provide a simple and only use few types of animation to attract the students to look at the power point slides and also to get the content of it, Teachers can even include simple sound effect for their animation as it can prevent the students from not to fall asleep.

                                   

                      Thirdly, teachers must avoid themselves from putting a lot of information in one single slide as shown in the picture above. This is because students can easily get bored or sleep in the classroom if they view all the slides with long paragraphs or with long essays. So, to attract the students to focus and participate in the class, teachers should minimize putting everything in one slide. Teachers have to prepare slides with important  points or important sentences only. Let the students write down the elaboration about the points ad the teachers explain in front of the class. It is one way a teacher may use to ensure that the students are paying attention in the class and also to prevent them from sleeping. Therefore, teachers should provide slides with the main points so that it is easier for the teachers to explain and for the students to understand even better.

                      Not only that, teachers may include videos and pictures in their power point slides. This is also another way for the teachers to gain their students attention. This is because students tend to understand better when they watch a video or view pictures regarding what they are learning. It is like opening their mind or giving them a clear picture of what they are learning about to ensure that the students can absorb the knowledge. If they understand what they watch or what they view, they tend to remember it more that what the teachers have spoken. 

                      Teachers also should include the topic of the subject they want to teach and their names on the first slide of the power point. This is to make the students to know what topic they are going to learn today and to help them to prepare themselves before the lesson starts. Since the slides are prepared by the teacher itself, it is advice for the teachers to mention "prepared by"  to proof that they are the one who does the power point slides. 

                         

                         Right and suitable font must be used by the teachers when they are preparing the slides. This is because a teacher has many students in his or her classroom, so to ensure that all the students especially those students who are seating at the back of the class are able to read the slides without any problem. Therefore, teachers should estimate size of the class before deciding on which font and size of the font to be used to do the power point slides. This also to ensure that students at the back give their attention and gain the lesson of the day. 

                        Lastly, teachers should know how to present their power point slides. Teachers must avoid themselves from just reading the slides without giving a clear explanation and expecting the students to understand everything that they have spoken. Teachers should only take the main points and explain it to the students so that students understand better. Teachers are advised to communicate with the students as they are explaining in front of the class to get their students focus. Teachers must realise that the slides are only as their reference to conduct their lesson in the class.

    

                         As a conclusion, these are the seven methods that a teacher should consider before preparing the slides. As for me, it actually depends on the teacher itself how they want the slides to be as long as the students understand what the teachers have presented, what the teachers have spoken or taught and most important matter is the students gain knowledge from the power point slides.

                                               

  

  

                            

                      

                        

The Important Part In A Lesson Plan

                           The important part in a lesson plan is the Learning Objective. Learning Objective means what a teacher expect the students to achieve once the teacher taught the lesson. For an example, a teacher teaches the students how to do addition and subtraction involving numbers in Mathematics. Learning Objective from the above example is students are able to solve questions that are given to them which involving addition and subtraction numbers.

                            I think the Learning Objective is important because Learning Objective is actually a highlight for the teachers to ensure that they know exactly what the students will able to do once they have taught the lesson. This will guide the teachers to know the best ways to deliver their lesson to their students so that the teachers can achieve their Learning Objectives. 

                        If teachers don't know the Learning Objectives of the lesson they teach means the teachers won't know what to expect from the students once they finishing teaching. Therefore, the teachers tend to give their students homework and leave the classroom without knowing whether the students understand everything that have been taught to them. The Learning Objective will indirectly lead the teachers to know whether the students are able to understand what they have been taught today in classroom. 

                               

                       Without the Learning Objective, the teachers won't get a clear picture on how to teach their students. Teachers won't able to create ways to deliver their lesson to their students. This is because when teachers have the Learning Objective, the teachers know what they want their students to achieve or able to do. Therefore, teachers will find various types of methods to teach their students until they students understand the lesson that have been delivered to them. If the Learning Objective are achieved by the teachers means the techniques that the teachers have used work out. 

                           

                     As a conclusion,the Learning Objective is important in a a lesson plan rather than others because Learning Objective determine what students are able to do what the teachers taught them.The Learning Objective indirectly helps the teachers to choose the best ways to deliver the lesson.The Learning Objective also helps the teachers to know their students's understanding on the lesson that they taught. It will also helps the teachers to improve better their ways of teaching if the Learning Objective are not achieved and helps teachers to upgrade even better the methods of delivering the lesson to students if the Learning Objective are achieved. 

                                      

                                       

            

                                         

Lesson Plan

           

                  My lecturer entered the classroom and shoot us questions such as, Do you know what is a lesson plan? Have you ever seen a lesson plan? Have any one of you worked in a kindergarten and you are required to do a lesson plan? Some of us answered yes and some said no.

   

               Then the lecturer asked us, What do you think a lesson plan should content? All of the students including me got excited by telling her many elements that we know such as learning outcomes, reflection, introduction, teaching methods, conclusion, topic, subject, activities, performance, achievement and so on.

                 The lecturer then asked us to form 11 groups and create our own lesson plan. All of us were busy planning the lesson plan while the lecturer was walking around and monitoring our work. The lesson plans have to be posted in the UNIEC. Once all of us have done the submission, the lecturer open the lesson plan that have been send by each group and started questioning them for the reasons they used those elements.

                                                                       

                     My group was questioned about how to evaluate the students whether they are the beginners, intermediate or expert level since we haven't enter the classroom yet. At first we were mumbling but somehow we manage to answer the question by saying that teachers need to assume their students level before they enter the classroom so that they know how to deliver their lesson and knowledge to their students. At the end all the groups have helped each other as all of them could the lecturer's questions.

                      Once all the lesson plans have been presented, the lecturer shoot again with questions by asking among the 11 lesson plans, which lesson plan do we thought the better or the best. Some were saying that their lesson plan are better than others and some tend to think that others lesson plan are better than theirs. Then the discussion goes on until the lecturer was satisfied with all our answers.

  

                              As a summary, what I exactly learned today was what is a lesson plan, what are the elements that should be in a lesson plan according to the subject and how many types of lesson plans are there. As for me, I prefer a lesson plan which is simple, direct forward, clear and easiest for all the teachers to do because as we know nowadays teachers are burden with all of work especially the administration work. The lecturer explained that it is better for all of us to do more detail lesson plan during our practicum because it somehow will reveal what kind of teaches are we and help we to be more organized. She continued that once we are graduated, its up to us how we want to the lesson plan. Therefore, the lesson plan is important for a teacher as it acts as a guideline to make sure that the teachers and on track.