My daughter reminds me that the last presentation I made, I ended up sobbing, so maybe take that into account
Absent an in-person class of my own to run these days, I've been interested in my children's educations once more. Last week, this included a discussion about how to chose who had to do their English presentation in class.
Talking about it with the kids, it's clear they had as many ideas as I did about the way(s) we go about this, shaped by their understanding of the exercise. And since it's something that most of us have to do at some point, I thought it'd be handy to run through some ideas once again, ahead of your autumn/fall commitments.
Note, I'm going to put to one side presenting of work done in class, even if it involves presenting. I assume here that we're really only looking at presentations that students have had to prepare beforehand.
First things first: what are you trying to achieve with a class presentation?
For my kids, there's a requirement that they all do a short talk to class, to develop speaking and research skills. That's really clear and defining; it's also very unlikely to be your situation, if only because you don't teach an English (or any other language) class, but a PoliSci one. Plus you probably set most of the curriculum.
So you probably had some other objectives in mind. What those might be is up to you, but you need to be clear to yourself about them, since it will shape whether and how a student presentation is used. So do you need everyone to do a presentation, or do you need all the presentation topics to be covered? What happens with the stuff that's presented: do we never really hear of it again (please say no to this one BTW) or is it pulled back into other content (and if so, how)? Does it need to be individual presentations or can groups do it?
Once you have this clear, you can work on formats.
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