Lecture: Final Presentation Assignment Instructions
Overview
The purpose of the Lecture: Final Presentation Assignment is to
demonstrate your understanding and use of effective teaching/lecturing
strategies. The Lecture: Final Presentation Assignment will also give you
experience in creating an audio recording of a lecture to communicate
academic material. For the Lecture: Final Presentation Assignment you will
submit an 8 10 minute narrated PowerPoint lecture Lecture: – based on the
Topic and Outline Assignment submitted earlier in the term. To complete
your narrated PowerPoint, you will need to create an audio recording of
yourself giving your lecture to a hypothetical classroom of students.
Instructions
Your submitted lecture will be graded on the following components:
Lecture Content/Organization – For full credit, your lecture should
contain sufficient definitions/descriptions of the topic/content along with
appropriate examples and/or research support. Your lecture should be
organized and flow in a logical manner.
Active Learning/Demonstration Description – Your presentation
should include a slide in which you describe one -class active in
learning exercise demonstration that you would give to the OR
hypothetical class listening to your lecture. You do need to actually not
administer or complete the exercise/demonstration. You are only
required to briefly describe what would happen in the actual classroom.
Your description should include:
o Details of the demonstration or steps the students will need to
follow for the active learning exercise
o Explanation of how the demonstration or activity connects to
what students are learning in the lecture
*Note that this description count toward your 8 10 minute lecture time does –
frame.
Oral Communication Skills – You will be graded on oral
communication skills including: tone of voice, inflections, speech
volume/speed, confidence in speaking, etc.
Presentation Design – Slide design should be simple, but generally
aesthetically pleasing. Design should not be overly distracting or
wordy.
Timing – Because instructors have to fit a lecture within a certain class
period, your ability to limit your lecture to the 8 10 minute span will be –
assessed. Lectures too short or too long will be penalized. *Note that
the run-times of any linked videos/multimedia in your lecture do
not count toward your 8 10 minute lecture limit. The 8-10 minute limit –
refers to time spent narrating/lecturing.
