Task Presentation Flashcards
What is task presentation about?
- Communication
What does effective communication with learners do?
- Improves Clarity
How do you know when you have been an effective communicator?
- Learner intent is the same as teacher intent
What are some ways to get attention of the learner?
- Establish signals/procedures
- Make sure students can hear you/see you
- Make sure students are not uncomfortable
- Control distractions
- Consider attention span
What does sequencing the content and organizational aspects of the task mean?
- Dont mix the directions
- Put students into groups
- then talk about what to do
What should you do if organizational aspects are critical to how to perform the task?
- They should be part of the presentation
- Demonstrate with partners
What improves clarity of the task presentation?
Set Inductions
- Prepare students for what, how and why.
What can you do to make your presentation more clear?
- Set Induction
- Sequence presentation
- Use examples and negative examples
- Personalize the Presentation
- Repeat difficult things
- Draw on other experiences
- Check for Student Understanding
- Present Material Dynamically
What does sequencing presentation in logical order mean?
- Chronological sequence the way the skill will be performed
What can sometimes be effective for sequencing presentations in logical order?
- Backwards chaining
What does using examples and negative examples look like?
- Describe what something is and what something is not
What are some examples of examples/negative examples?
- A push not a throw
- What is soft and what is hard
- What part of the hand to use and what part not to use
- Elbows locked and elbows not locked
What does personalizing a presentation mean?
- Refer to experiences of the student
- Refer to experiences of the teacher
What does repeating hard to understand things look like?
- Repeat cues before students go to practice
- Repeat cues after students have had a chance to practice
What does drawing on other experiences of the students look like?
- Show the progression in students
- Transfer is facilitated if students are alerted to possibility of transfer
Why should you check for student understanding?
- improve clarity
- Find out what students know/dont know
What are some examples of checking students for understanding?
- Ask students to give you an example
- What are the cues you are going to use
- Why is this important
- How are you going to do this
- Ask a student to demonstrate
What does presenting material dynamically look like?
- Inflection of voice
- Use non verbal behaviour
- Contrast slow and fast delivery
- Use motivating media
What is the task presentation checklist?
- Orient the learner (set induction)
- Use logical sequence
- Use examples and non-examples
- PErsonalize the presnetation
- Repeat difficult things
- Draw on personal experience of learner
- Check for understanding
- Present material dynamically
What are some options of ways to communicate?
- Verbal
- Demonstration
- Media
What does verbal communication look like?
- If students are familiar with skill or task, verbal communication may be all that is necessary
- Use checks for understanding if you are unsure whether students know what you mean
What does a good demonstration need?
- Full (not partial)
- Accurate
- Use students when appropriate
- Demonstrate the organizational format
- emphasize important info
- Info on why skill is performed
- Check understanding after demo
- Repeat demo more than once if needed
What are the advantages of using media in your presentation?
- Can be motivation
- Give students perspective
- Models provide usually good ones
- Frees the teacher to do other things
What are the disadvantages of using media in your demonstration?
- May not be appropriate level
- Oftentimes too much info
- Requires teacher previewing and prep
What is a learning cue?
- a word or phrase that identifies and communicates critical features of a movement task or skill
What are characteristics of good cues?-
- Accurate
- Critical
- Few in Number
- Age Appropriate
What do critical learning cues do?
- Reduce information for what is most critical
- Keeps things brief
What is a summary cue?
- Single word that capture the essence of a feature
What are some learning cues for volleyball set?
- Get low
- Make like a chicken (elbows out)
- Triangle (hands above head)
- Contact above forehead
What are some learning cues for young learners?
Throwing
- Throw as hard as you can
Jumping
- Jump to the line on the floor you think you can reach
What do learning cues for beginning learners do?
- Give learner whole idea or gross action
- Use cues with a demonstration
What do learning cues for advanced learners do?
- Be selective about what you want the learner to focus on
- Use process-oriented cues
What are some things to think about with learning cues for young learners do?
- they dont have the vocabulary
- Do not have movement experience to draw on
What are some things to think about for learning cues for older learners?
- May have idea of whether they succeed or not succeed
- Can profit from more verbal presentation - dont overload
What are some things to think about with learning cues for closed skills?
- Should create a visual picture of skill for learner
- Should be able to be “rehearsed”
- Use a few descriptive cues in sequence
What are some things to think about with learning cues for closed skills/tactics?
- Initial cue can be as for a closed skill
- Cues should quickly move to helping the learner adjust the response to environmental factors
How should you organize cues for learners?
- Sequence: cues in order
- Practice: Sequence of cues verbally with students
- Allow: students to rehears the cues
