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“presenting a workshop is a form of teaching
in which you invite those in attendance
(participants) to interact with you and each
other in the exploration of a professional issue,
curriculum content, or instructional
methodology.
Planning a workshop:
Choosing a topic
First, choose a topic that is workshop- friendly.
This means you need a hands-on topic that
allows your participants to carry out
activities and engage in discussion.
For instance, a topic that
demonstrates how to conduct interactive
reading activities would be good for a workshop.
Attending a workshop:
One of the best ways to prepare for your
workshop is to attend other workshops.
Make notes about what went well and why.
What did you like or dislike about how the
presenter conducted the workshop?
What kinds of problems did you see that
you would want to avoid in your own workshop?
For example, I have liked workshops with
well-prepared and confident speakers
who knew how to manage time and offered
the audience techniques they could add to
their teaching repertoire.
Practice your workshop before you deliver it
professionally. An ideal practice audience
would be other English teachers since they
can respond to your content in an authentic
fashion.
If unable to secure an audience of English
teaching professionals, you might be able
to coax friends or family members to act as
participants for a rehearsal
Provide hands out for participants
:
Prepare a handout that outlines the activities
or processes you will cover so that participants
can reenact the activities at a later date.
Simply providing a copy of PowerPoint
slides is not always enough since much
of what you actually do in your workshop
will not be on the slides. Make sure you
bring more than enough handouts for
participants.
Parts of a workshop:
A workshop (or presentation) should have
a clear beginning (introduction and warm-up),
middle (body), and end
(conclusion and question-answer session).
Introduction:
When you start your workshop, introduce
yourself and state your affiliation.
Thank your participants for attending your
workshop. Present the title of your workshop,
and give a brief introduction of your topic.
Let your workshop participants know the
expected outcomes of your workshop so
that they will have an idea of what learning
or skills development they will take away.
Warm up:
Warm-up activities are ice-breakers that help
participants get acquainted and feel more
relaxed with one another before the main part
of the workshop begins.
Warm-ups also serve as a diagnostic for your
workshop, helping you to learn a bit about
what the participants know about your topic
Middle stage :
Group Work:
Remember that a workshop needs to involve
active learning, not just passive listening, and
the challenge is to keep participants engaged.
In the body of your workshop, allow time for
pair, small-group, and whole-group discussion
as you run your activities.
Managing Time:
Before you plan your workshop, check the time
allotment carefully. Time allowed for workshops
is typically 40 to 50 minutes, but
can be as little as 15 to 20 minutes, and you could
be asked to deliver a workshop that is an hour
or longer.
Ending Stage:
At the end of your workshop, briefly go over
what you covered. Make sure participants
know the names of the activities presented
and how they can conduct them in the future.
Allow time for questions and answers and final
comments. Get feedback from your participants
on how the workshop went. Find out if your
proposed outcomes were achieved.
Written feedback is, of course, always
preferable if you want honest feedback.
The topic is presented through a data show screen,
a projector and a computer. The time is from 30 to
45 minutes. It starts with a warm up, self-introduction,
the topic and ended by the attendants' questions
comments and a written report.
You can also outline your presentation:
In today’s presentation I’m hoping to cover three
points:
4. Explaining that there will be time for questions
at the end:
If you have any questions you’d like to ask, please leave
Definition:
A demonstration speech is a form of informative
speech where the speaker’s primary purpose
is to teach the audience how to complete a
task (or process), and this is largely
accomplished by demonstrating the task
(or process) through a series of steps.
It is a speech given for the purpose of telling and
or showing how to do something. Often times
they have visual aids and or hand outs including
Power Point and Key Note presentations.
The steps:
45 minutes. It starts with a question that needs an
answer or a problem that needs a solution.
The topic is presented through asking questions
and getting the attendants' answers to form the
content of the demonstration. It is followed by
the attendants' comments
1-Captivate students from the beginning
In secondary teacher training, one of the first
things that teachers are taught is the concept
of the ‘plenary’, otherwise know as the ‘starter’.
2-Organisaton is everything!
Preparing a lecture in advance also allows you
time to research valuable resources, such as
educational videos, YouTube clips, academic
articles etc…
3-Be animated
Try to vary the intonation (pitch and tone) of your
voice, it doesn’t matter how interesting the contents
, a monotone voice is guaranteed to send a lecture
room full of students to sleep. Be conversational
in tone. Use humor, since students are more
motivated when they're having fun.
4-Adopt student centered learning strategies
Student-centered learning is all about placing the
student at the centre of the teaching process.
It is making students an active and a responsible
contributor in their own learning. Teaching has
moved away from the ‘one size fits all’ pedagogy
and instead now embraces the fact that students
learn in different ways.
5-Question time
One of the most effective tools a lecturer has at
their disposal and which ensures interaction, is
to ask and encourage questions. Questions can
be used as a plenary, can stimulate interaction
throughout the lecture and can be used to re-visit
content at the end.
6-Change can be good
I personally think that it is good to try new strategies
and new ways of doing things. Not only for the
student’s interest, but also for our own It might be
that the original way of doing something was
the best way.
7-Make the lecture interactive
An interactive lecture is one that includes and
encourages student participation.
Using techniques that encourage all students
to contribute, helps to promote student retention
and learning of the content presented during lecture.
8-Technology
My three favorite technological resources are:
Power-Point which is great for summarizing key
points and presenting visual stimulus.
Educational videos are both engaging and informative.
Finally, Virtual Learning Environments such as
Moodle, which are great for ensuring that the
students continue to be engaged with the
content after the lectures, have ended.
9-Student Feedback
Sometimes just saying to the students “what did
you think about the video I showed today?’
Or “was that a useful resource?”
Provides valuable feedback that you can use to
inform future planning.
10-Closing Time:
1-Active learning 1
2- Active learning 2
3-Active Learning 3 .
4- Learning outcomes.
5- Interaction.
6-Critical Thinking 1
7- Critical thinking 2
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