Our last lesson this week was devoted to learning about how to make a good presentation. We read some tips in groups, and then mixed the groups up, so each one of us would know about a different tip and could tell the rest (our teacher used the information gap resource once again to press us to listen to each other, as the story each one of us had to tell was different from the rest).
We also watched a video, where Steve Jobs presented an Apple product to a more than passionate crowd (as teachers, we will need to win our crowd, they will not be fanatical fans who had to wait for hours to have the privilege of listening to us, which is a great disadvantage compared to Jobs, by the way). I agree on the fact that teachers need to be aware that, above all, they are communicators, and copying techniques used by sellers, such as Jobs, can be a good idea, but do teachers "sell" education? Is education another commodity? Is a teacher a Disney World entertainer who puts up a different and exciting show everyday, so school will be only and always fun? I have written on those concerns many times in this blog before, and I find it hard to strike a balance between the "no pain, no gain" applied to education on one end, and the entertainer-teacher on the other end.
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