PowerPoint Lesson Plans

Why You Should Use PowerPoint to 
Plan and 
Teach Lessons

I can hear you now, "You really expect me to add yet another new way of doing something as simple as lessons and lesson plans?".

I've been where you are. When creating new lessons or teaching previously taught concepts, I was always hunting down all the materials, resources, rubrics, center activities, etc.. I was determined to find a way to combine all these materials into a single spot. This One Spot needed to be Easy to Update and must Actively Engage Students 

      

To this end, I found myself creating PowerPoint Presentation that included visuals and/or animation, online activities, sentence frames, and all associated materials. Having received many compliments on these 'lesson plans', I began to enhance the presentations to include teacher notes, suggestions for use, sample time lines, additional resources and bibliography information.

~ An unanticipated benefit ~ 

They double as great sub plans

and

Absent students can receive the same instruction.

How PowerPoint Presentations Can Enhance Teaching:

- they can allow teachers to better meet the standard/s they

  are teaching

- allow for multi-modality (multi-sensory) instruction

- they accompany and compliment oral delivery

- they create more dynamic lessons (more than just teacher   

  talk and dry erase markers) 

- they offer more value to the lesson  

- lessons are more organized, flexible, and easily updated and modified and thus save the     teacher time

- interactive multimedia, images, sounds, and animation capture student interest/attention   and help them better retain what they are learning

- students show greater engagement

- easier to read than hand written notes or overhead projectors

- saves paper

- great for absent students

- collaborating with other educators is easier

How PowerPoint Presentations improve student learning:

- students show greater engagement

- student comprehension is improved by making lessons more engaging and interactive

- interactive multimedia, images, sounds, and animation capture student interest/attention   and help them better retain what they are learning

- students show greater engagement

- absent students can receive the same instruction (replay the presentation or send to   them via email, or zip drive

 

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"Nicely done! I love the step by step directions with arrows and examples! Thank you!"

"Thank you so much for taking the time to add the animation information of powerpoint as a product!"

"Great for reinforcing importance of adjectives!"

"Great resource, easy to present, students liked visuals."

"I love the information about static guides! It was helpful! This resource is so simple! I feel like I could even let my students use it when they are learning PowerPoint! Great resource!"

"I loved this!" "Great information and very easy to understand. Thanks!"

"Loved the interactive elements!"                "Just what I needed! Thank you so much! :-)"

" Really fun activity! The animations are really cute and very engaging. Can't wait for back to school use!"