Putting Together Your Presentation
How will you put together a successful presentation? Follow these steps:
Here are the requirements your presentation must meet:
- Organize your presentation into four sections: the four essential questions.
- Make an outline of your presentation. What are you required to present? What background information do you want to present? Your answers to these questions will tell you what slides you'll need.
- Budget your time per question. You don't want to spend eight minutes on Who Am I? and then not have enough time to adequately answer the other questions.
- Consider bringing actual artifacts to the presentation. Demonstrating something tangible to your audience adds interest to a presentation that is otherwise totally on a screen.
- Make the slides. Text should be in bullet points, not paragraphs. Images add interest. Try to make the fonts consistent.
- Practice your presentation! Time it! To present during Celebration of Learning, a successful practice presentation is required.
Here are the requirements your presentation must meet:
- 10 - 15 minutes long (going over or under will result in needing to make up the presentation)
- Any video material you use cannot be more than two minutes
- An answer to the question Who am I? which includes your Mission Statement
- An answer to the question How am I doing? that includes at least one artifact from each category of the Learning Expectations (Social, Civic, Academic)
- An answer to the question Where am I going? in which you present research on an occupation
- An answer to the question How am I going to get there? which includes at least two SMART goals, one of which is about post-secondary options
- At least three authoritative sources in your Works Cited page
- At least two sources must be cited verbally during the presentation
Presentation Outline
Your presentation must be clear to your audience (and to you). Here is a suggested outline of slides. You do not need to use this outline exactly, but keep in mind that you must have all of the necessary elements. Don't forget: the most important thing here is that your presentation leaves your audience with a strong impression of who you are.