Pechakucha

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Ever felt that you dont know your students very well as individuals.

Is there a way to get to know your students more?

I teach Health and PE 3 lessons over a six day cycle.

I teach PE and Health where we see our students far less than the other core subjects. Which means we teach more students and sometimes getting to know them all in a meaningful way and building those relationships that are so vital and impact significantly on a students well being is really tough.2My Solution:

Modified Pechakucha

Pechakuchas are a style of presenting. Formally they are 20 slides each shown for 20 seconds.Modify it to suit your needs.

You can stipulate length of time for slides or not.

You can change the length of the presentation.

Have verbal or non verbal elements.Modified PechakuchasWith my form class.

In term two.

My first use was 2012.

My second use was 2013 with BYOD classWith my health class. Due to changes in our timetabling system.

In term two.

First I presented my own Pechakucha to the class.

To showcase what I wanted students to create and how I wanted them to present.

Positive role modelling.

Built confidence as it was a basic presentation.How I did it.CREATE A PRESENTATION ABOUT YOURSELF.

Goal of your presentation: to share things about yourself, that others in your class may not know about you so that they can get to know you.My Student Guidelines2-3 minutes only

Not a huge homework task.

Seems easier to complete by having a short time limit.Time LimitPhotos and/or writing about:Your familyYour siblingsYour childhoodTraveling you might have donehobbies and interestscareer goalOther future aspirationsSomething quirky/funny about themselves

Give them ideas of what they could include..Tell them this is not what they have to include but are some ideas to help them get started.10I encourage the girls to talk through their presentation. E.g. explain who people in their photos are etc.

I dont require them to write it down like a formal speech but to talk in a more open and in relaxed way.

To give opportunities to practice public speaking in a non threatening and non assessed environment.To Speak or Not to SpeakThat is the question!!!You could very easily take the verbal aspect out to work on other skills e.g. movie production etc

Or

Limit how much verbal is required throughout to help those students who struggle with public speaking.To Speak or Not to SpeakThat is the question!!!I dont have time in my programme to use my lessons for this???

Computer rooms are often available during form times

Computer Access????13My form class spent a week in a computer lab in form time.

I helped those students who had never done this before.

My focus was not on amazing presentations on ppoint, but rather getting to know each other. What I didObviously if you are teaching BYOD classes they can do this on their own devices.14Each morning or every couple of days we would have 1-2 students present.

This spread it out across a term.

Have a general plan of when each student is presenting but be prepared to change when students are absent. Rule: All students should be ready to present at any time.

Anyone can ask the student questions at the end.

Presenting ThemStipulate what programme you want students to use. Ppoint is good as most people or schools have it.

Get them to email it to you by a due date. Then you have it saved.

Be prepared to offer help when they require it.

Encourage students experienced with the program to go beyond the basics of putting words on a page.

A great opportunity for experienced students to lead those less experienced in an informal setting.

Be prepared to take your laptop to form times for the presentations.Tips for use with Non BYOD classesStipulate what program you want them to use.

Think through when they are going to present them.

Ensure you have the right equipment to connect to the projector e.g. ipad 4 adaptor is different to ipad 3!!!

Get them emailed to youSome Tips for use with BYOD classes. Students didnt find it a major task to complete and therefor were more motivated.

Some students had never used ppoint before(I am at secondary school), they enjoyed having the opportunity to learn to use it without it being assessed.My Findings..Students shared far more than I expected (in a good way).

I really enjoyed students having the confidence to share their hobbies and interests without being judged.

Students loved me and others asking questions about some of their experiences and interests at the end.

The students would remind me about the presentations rather than me forcing them!

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