What makes professional presentations effective

Question

Scenario: Imagine that you are presenting this information to your fellow teachers in your school during a staff development day, to your school board to solicit support for their ideas, or to your managers as part of your organization’s continuous improvement program. Your goals are to a) gain approval to conduct this study and b) implement your proposed innovation or intervention in your place of work.

Consider what you’ve learned regarding what makes professional presentations effective. In this case, your boss/ principal, and school board/board of directors are allowing you 10 minutes to present your proposal.

Since you are submitting presentation slides for this assignment, you will need to create between 10 to 15 slides, not including the title and reference slides. Think again about effective components of professional presentations. You will be required to include most of your thought process by means of Speaker’s notes – notated in the note’s section of your presentation. Keep in mind when selecting the presentation program/software you wish to use, that the notes page is available as a great deal of what is graded will be included there.

Your Action Research Proposal should be represented on the presentation slides and explained in your notes on the slides, including the following components:

• Area of focus

• Explanation of problem

• Variables

• Defined factors

• Contexts, including recognition of diverse learners

• Variables of the proposed study

• Research questions

• Questions are answerable given the researcher’s expertise, time, and resources

• Locus of control

• The area of focus is within the researcher’s locus of control

• Intervention/Innovation

• Succinct statement of proposed action to address identified issue/area of focus

• Group membership

• Identified with importance, role, and responsibilities of each

• Negotiations

• Potential obstacles negotiated ethics

• The researcher addresses potential ethical challenges

• Timeline

• Anticipated schedule for each phase of intervention

• Statement of resources

• List of what is needed to enact the proposed plan

Proposed data collection techniques are justified. The researcher proposes appropriate data collection techniques to answer the study’s research questions.