The Recommended Reading provides useful suggestions for quality presentations while this month's film puts education into the spotlight. The Math Confidence video focuses on positive and negative numbers and exit slips are discussed for their usefulness to both teachers and students. A new feature, the Quote of the Month, provides inspiration and perspective. |
How can you make your message stick? Whether delivering a talk in the classroom or boardroom, this book helps people expand their
repertoire to include visuals (especially photographs) beyond the usual bullet-pointed Power Point slides. Garr Reynolds outlines how Presentation Zen can be applied to design and to life in general. By focusing on your audience and being prepared, presentations can be more effective and engaging for the presenter and the audience. He believes that confidence can be increased through better preparation and delivery.
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This movie is "a call to mobilize families, educators, and policy makers to challenge current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens." Teachers and parents would like students to gain critical thinking skills and the ability to learn.
"Race to Nowhere" features stressed students whose extracurricular activities make homework completion challenging. While there is a bias against homework in this movie, Math homework is usually given as independent practice and to help students develop self-awareness of their thinking processes. The mention of Math and English remediation at the college level is an excellent but underpublicized issue. A nice addition would be the excellent things happening in schools every day.
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