THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF PRESENTING Book Group 2

THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF PRESENTING

Book Group 2 Chapters 3 and 4

Revisiting the Bridge to Practice: Read the scenario on pages 46-48 and decide on how the suggested responses "sit with you." In other words, how far away from your baseline are the suggestions? What would you need to do to make this nearer to your automatic responses? Would you want that?

Review Video: Voice Patterns for Credibility

Essential Question

How can I as the presenter behave in a way that positively impacts each partcipant's learning while also balancing the need to move the collective along? When that conflicts, how do I respond?

"Knowing that all four types will be in your audience forces you to design a presentation that incorporates and balances cooperation, collaboration, academic references, data, and exploration" (p. 58).

How might thinking about the Four Audience Types impact the way you plan PD? Does your own style influence your choices? Is that "ok?"

Group Formation

After reading Zoller's suggestions on gaining and keeping group formation, which strategies or presentation moves do you think you regularly use? Which new items in your toolkit might have improved a PD or meeting in which group formation was a concern?

"Our attention is focused by our intention" (p. 64).

What are your visual and auditory acuity "alarms?"

"Protocols create space for everyone in the group to participate and contribute verbally, emotionally, and intellectually" (p. 75). Do you agree with Zoller's suppositions about loose and tight protocols in light of participant cognitive demand, disposition, and level of rigor (pp. 78-81)?

Zoller's Points of Communication

One-point communication: With yourself

Zoller's Points of Communication

One-point communication: With yourself Two-point communication: Between you and another person or a group

Zoller's Points of Communication

One-point communication: With yourself Two-point communication: Between you and another person or a group Three-point communication: When a presenter refers to an object in the room — it could be a PowerPoint slide, an easel, or a worksheet

Zoller's Points of Communication

One-point communication: With yourself Two-point communication: Between you and another person or a group Three-point communication: When a presenter refers to an object in the room — it could be a PowerPoint slide, an easel, or a worksheet Four-point communication: Presenter refers to someone who isn’t in the room — pointing to teachers out there, for example; often used to "gently" refer to resistance or possible misconceptions that might also be held by others in the room

When might you use each of these types of communication in an upcoming PD session?

Which of the techniques in Chapter 4 might you find most useful in an upcoming PD? How might these techniques support your participants?

• "the," "our," "your" word choices (pp. 78-79)
• Benefit What, Why, How frame (p. 79)
• Yellow Lights for whole group sharing (pp. 83-85)
• Last Call (pp. 86-88)

Thanks!

We will meet virtually on the following dates from 8:30-9:30: September 4 (Chapters 1-2) October 23 (Chapters 3-4) November 13 (Chapters 5-7) December 18 (Chapters 8-10) We will have a special visitor on our meeting on December 18. Here's a hint: he has a white beard...