In a presentation, a source relates, dramatizes, or otherwise provides information to learners. The Source may be a textbook, audio, video, online via eLearning tools, a teacher, a student, and so on. This method makes use of verbal information and or visual symbols to convey material quickly. Presentations typically provide students with essential background information. A presentation can also introduce a new topic, provide an overview, and motivate students to learn. It is a one-way communication method controlled by the source, with no immediate response form, or interaction with, the audience.

In a presentation, the content can be presented verbally by the teacher or a student and the audience listens and takes notes. video, audio, and computer bass presentations can also be used, either as the main way of presenting new material or as a supplemental approach for covering a specific topic in more detail.

• Inform students of the purpose of the presentation by providing them with an agenda or outline.

• Highlight the critical points of the presentation by showing a visual that illustrates a key point, by using voice inflections to emphasize important points, and by simply declaring a point as one of central importance.

• Make the presentation relevant. Learners need to be able to relate to information from the presentation to their own experiences. You can accomplish this by asking questions such as the following:

  1. How does this relate to you?

  2. Have you ever had a similar kind of experience?

  3. how could you use this information now or in the future?

• Use variety to maintain attention. Add variety by introducing Graphics or other forms of media, by asking questions, by incorporating relevant personal experiences, or even by making a simple change in your volume or rate of speech.

Motivation Activities

• What strategies will you use to hold students’ attention throughout the lesson?

• What strategies will you use to help students see the relevance of the information?

• Will you use to increase students’ confidence in learning?

• What strategies will you use to increase student satisfaction in learning?

Orientation Activities

• Do to help students understand the objectives of the current lesson?

• What will you do to link the lesson to previous lesson?

• What will you do to form transitions?

• What will you do to summarize the lesson and Link it to future lessons?

Information Activities

• What major content ideas will you present? In what sequence? Using what examples?

• What will you do to help students understand and remember those ideas?

• What will you do to help students see the relationships among the ideas?

• What will you do to help students understand when and why the ideas will be useful?

Application Activities

• What will you do to give students an opportunity to apply their new knowledge or skill?

• How much guidance will you provide in what form will that guidance take?

• In what way will you give students feedback about their performance during practice?

Evaluation Activities

• What will you do to determine whether students have achieved the learning objectives?

• how will you give students feedback about their performance during the evaluation?