ELA An Easier Way: 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 Presentations 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.

POWERPOINT PRESENTATION LESSONS...

• allow teachers to better meet the standard/s they are teaching

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

• accompany and compliment oral delivery

• create more dynamic lessons (more than just teacher talk and dry erase markers)

• offer more value

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

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

• show greater student engagement

• can be easier to read than hand written notes or overhead projectors

• save paper

• are great for absent students

• allow for easier collaboration with other educators

SCREEN SHOTS FROM MY FIRST POWERPOINT LESSONS

VIDEO CLIPS FROM ANIMATED POWERPOINT LESSONS

Figurative Language: IdiomsLesson-Plan & Activities

Forming Past-Tense Verbs: LESSON PLAN & Activities

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

~ An unanticipated benefit ~

They double as great sub plans
and
Absent students can receive the same instruction.

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MonicaCreates