How to Planning and deliver a lesson using power point

Digital lessons created using PowerPoint is an effective way to help students learn the lessons that you are teaching. A large number of students learn best visually, so adding visual cues to the lessons you are teaching is a good way to reach the visual learners in your class. Using PowerPoint to teach also makes your lessons more fun, which can result in making them more memorable. Here is how to begin using PowerPoint for educating students.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• computer
• powerpoint software
• story board

1. Brainstorm ways that visual cues could enhance your lesson. For example, you can provide a bulleted list to coincide with the headings or parts of your lecture. You could also include problems for the students to work through in a PowerPoint presentation.

2. Create a PowerPoint presentation to enhance your lessons. Use the best ideas from your brainstorming session as a starting point for your PowerPoint presentation. Keep the text minimal just enough to prompt the student to remember what you said during your discussion of the topic.

3. Add graphics to your PowerPoint presentation. Most slides should include a graphic that enhances the text. Use the same graphic for the same ideas, such as the same question mark for questions that the class should answer. If you use the same graphic consistently for the same message, it will serve as a visual cue for the student and help the student connect the ideas you have presented.

4. Make the presentation interesting. Inject some humor into your presentation where appropriate, such as including a graphic of a man spinning multiple plates during a discussion of multi-tasking. Use age-appropriate humor to hold your students’ attention.

5. Set up an LCD projector. An LCD (liquid crystal display) projector will project your PowerPoint presentation onto the wall or a screen so that all of your students can view the presentation during your lecture.

6. Display the PowerPoint presentation as you lecture or discuss topics with your class. If you have included a slide for every topic, then your students will associate what you said with the slides that you project during that part of the lecture.

7. Distribute handouts of the PowerPoint presentation. You can print out handouts of the slides from PowerPoint that you can distribute to your class. By distributing handouts, the students are provided with a big picture view of the lecture but are responsible for filling in the details. Looking at the handouts of the slides will help your students remember your lecture.