Presentation karaoke and a 60 second pitch!

Sports and Exercise students are currently enrolled on the 'Oral Presentation Skills' Unit and we have been looking at ways for learners to present and think differently. To this end, a series of slides were put together for the students to try and talk on an unknown subject. Effectively they were stepping up to the plate and delivering a short 60 seconds pitch where they had to give a structured talk mentioning the two words on the screen. The topics were a mixture of sports, health, citizenship and vocational ideas and the students enagaged enthusiastically and performed really well. Ali in the Sports Faculty gave me a few pointers on the anatomical side of things and this will most definitely be used again next session. The onus was on structure, articulation, projection and timing. The slides are attached below.

Presentation karaoke!

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Stephen has been incorporating group reading and textual analysis team work into lessons his English class. It was suggested that Joyce could lead a staff development session on this participatory exercise some time in the future.

Madeleine has been using YouTube successfully with her HN Complex Oral Presentation Skills class for developing some of the more technical aspects of delivery.

Isobel has also been using YouTube to show famous speeches to her COP class, which has proved successful for developing analysis skills.

Mark is producing magazines with his CPC classes and noted the wide range of topics that students have chosen for their articles. Mark and Stephen are also contributing articles to the magazines. One of Mark's articles will be on the topic of why he believes the voting age should be lowered in the UK.

Mark and Scott are planning to use the sports hall and weights gym to assess presentations delivered by Sports and Exercise students for the Oral Presentation Skills unit.

Mark has found the integration of assessments with the Presentation Skills in Science unit valuable.

Caroline has been using recorded presentations delivered by the TV and Broadcast Production class for assessment.  These presentations are an existing aspect of their course and are delivered in the lecture theatre.

Scott reminded the team about the past paper questions for Higher English that have been organised by genre and which are saved on the S Drive in the Higher English/Exam folder. These have been particularly useful for preparation for the prelim. In relation to this, Deborah pointed out that there are good resources on the SQA website aimed at students to provide guidance on exams.