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
