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The Presenter’s Guide to Engaging, Fantastic
Sessions
Introduction
Let us help you raise the bar and become a better presenter.
• Increase your chance of presenting again by following these guidelines and tailoring your presentation to our attendees
WE INVITE OUR HIGHEST-RATED SESSIONS BACK
Charter schools are so creative–why aren’t conferences?
flipped classroom
project-based
learning
college preparatory
imaginative learning
montessori style
core knowledge
character education
service learning
un-conference
Let’s make the conference feel as cool
fishbowls
ted talks
experiential learning
quiz bowl
attendee-led
pecha-kucha
rants
flipped
fishbowls
Don’t recognize one of these? Look it up!
Sales-Free Sessions
New this year!
• Every attendee will be asked on the survey “Was a sales pitch included in this presentation?”
• If over 25% respond “Yes”, you will not be invited back.
• Our attendees complain every year about sales pitches.
Presentation GoalsOur goals for you
Our Experienced Attendees
50%
15%
12%
19%
4%8%
22%
33%
37%
New School 1-23-5 6-910+
First time 1-3 4-67+
Years Attending the Conference Age of School, Years
WHAT MAKES YOUan expert?
GO DEEP INTO THE
complexities
Stay within your strengths, talk about what you know really well.
Don’t just skim the surface of your topic. Dive deep into the nitty-gritty and get to the tough questions fast.
How to dive deep:
Use your handouts, not your powerpoint, to provide the background information. They can read that as they come in if they don’t know it already.
Jump in to the meatiest part--start with the challenge.
Goal of this Presentation
Set a clear goal for your presentation: What should attendees know going out that they didn’t going in? Use your goal to drive your content.
Attendees want to be ENGAGED
• Engaged with:
• you
• each other
National Charter Schools Conference 2012
Ideas for EngagementThis takes planning. You won’t magically wake up and feel engaging
on the day of your presentation.
• Icebreakers:
• Introduce yourself to your neighbor
• Tell your table why you’re here
• Ask: have you ever dealt with this problem before?
• Stop every ten minutes to ask your attendees a question:
• Show of hands, have you ever met a student like this?
• Questions break up the act of listening and turns attendee’s minds to something else for a second--that helps make them better listeners too.
EYEcontact
There are people out there. When you look up from your notes, you engage them!
Boston Collegiate
Don’t Read the Powerpoint
• Many presenters like to read their slides out loud and put lots of text on them.
• This is not engaging for three reasons:
• Your attendees read along
• You look at screens, not at them
• If they can just read it at home, why did they fly to DC?
Keep Powerpoints as free of text as possible.
Matters
Leave at least 15 minutes for questions. Be prepared with some conversation starters in case you
have a shy audience.
KIPP Indy
The Usual Presenter Setup
podium w. mic
head table
gotta put your things somewhere!
screen covered in long sentences of
text for attendees to read along with you
The Great Presenter Setup
in front of the head table with
a hand mic
hide your things!
screen with crucial info
Let the attendee focus
on you
You can use an app to advance slides
Content strategies
Plan Your Content• Brevity: Keep on-screen words brief.
• Outline: Outline your presentation before designing
• Test: Ask a colleague to listen to you rehearse
• Practice: makes perfect!
• Handouts: Use a handout instead of a slide deck (See presenter website for our handout)
Supplementary Materials
• More engagement suggestions
• Design tips
• Gadgets and Gizmos
• Session format suggestions
• ...and more!
Available on the presenter website.
See You in DC!