Students Will Identify Several Challenges Associated with Group Presentations

Students Will Identify Several Challenges Associated with Group Presentations

Title/Topic / Group Presentations Power Hour
Date(s)
Time Allotted / 55 minutes
Materials Needed / Power point presentation
Timeline Handout
Purpose/Goal and
Rationale / Students oftentimes have trouble public speaking. These inadequacies can sometimes be emphasized when placed in a group scenario. In this workshops students will receive key strategies in how to give a presentation within a group, and on behalf of a group.
Learning Outcomes
(Outcomes should be measurable, future-oriented, and use action verbs—see Bloom’s Taxonomy) /
  1. Students will identify several challenges associated with group presentations.
  2. Students will identify several strategies and models on how to properly present as an individual, and within a group.
  3. Students will apply strategies to their current group project.

Plan (indicate where you are rounding the learning cycle and include time parameters) /
  1. Group presentations (10 minutes)
  1. Parallel group presentations to group projects and how they can be confrontational at times.
  2. Discussion – Identify a past negative or positive experience with group presentations. What made it either a bad or negative experience? What are some of the major themes?
  1. Advantages/”Disadvantages” of group presentations (work) (5 minutes)
  2. Highlight advantages (e.g., group performance, member achievement) vs. “disadvantages”. These are only negative when planning is not accurate.
  3. Characteristics of a Healthy Group (5 minutes)
  4. Emphasize interdependency, cohesive and accountability. How will these play out in a final group presentation? How do you reach a great, final, group presentation? Highlight the fact that the presentation needs to be planned and delivered by a cohesive group or it will suffer, and so will their grades!
  5. Strategies of an effective speaker (5)
  6. Voice; How to properly use pitch, rate, volume. Proper enunciation and pronunciation. Conversational style.
  7. Body; effective use of poise, gestures, body movements.
  8. Strategies for Group Presentations (Sellnow 2009) (10)
  9. Tips: divide content, build individual outlines, build collective outline, details of delivery, and practice!
  10. Transitions: Necessary to build cohesive content. Highlight order of speakers, logistics, plan, transitions between speakers (intro and outro).
  11. Group Speech Formats (Sellnow 2009) (10)
  12. Symposium Presentation; Panel Discussion; Modified Symposium Presentation. Discussion on how Modified Symposium Presentation is probably the best for a college classroom presentation. Tie it in with the use of outlines and transitions, and then back to group interdependency and cohesiveness.
  13. If time allows, suggest people to start talking in groups and decide how they are going to approach their presentation. How will they divide content? How will they build a complete outline? What kind of transitions will they use? Have people sit in their groups before the presentation starts. Use timeline handout.
  14. Group Activity – Watch video of a bad presentation and have students critique it, using the information gained in the presentation. Choose video depending on time and class composition. First video is good when you’re running out of time or with a large group.
  15. (Comedic)
  16. Even though this video is funny it highlights the need to know the logistics of the presentation, professionalism, and interdependency.
  17. Bad presentation. Highlight logistics, transitions, integration of multimedia.

References / Verdeber, Rudolph, Kathleen S. Verdeber, and Deanna D. Sellnow
2009 Communicate! Wadsworth.
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