Question

A novice educator has completed presenting a new course for the first time. It is now time to review the evaluations submitted by the participants. From the 20 participants, 8 submitted the standardized evaluation form. Despite 4 of the participants rating the educator highly, there was one individual who was very critical of the content as well as the presentation. This participant noted that the educator mispronounced several words, that a major concept was not explained correctly, and that the educator's constant hand movements were very distracting. As the mentor to the educator, what suggestions would you provide to the novice educator?

Answer 1

Some of the suggestion which could be provided to the novice educator are

• First provide a overall positive reinforcement about the presentation
• Inform that in order to make her presentation more better pronunciation of the words should be much clearer because the learner or the student learning from them and it is difficult for the students to understand the exact words or the meaning of it.
• Encourage to prepare content in step by step manner so that important parts, concepts will not be missed
• Body posture ,gesture are highly important when doing a presentation because this can distract the students from observation and concentration