I have been approached by teachers who have asked me to help them learn how to prepare presentations.
I asked them why they are coming to me, after all they went to a teacher training academy where they were taught how to prepare presentations themselves.
The basic comment was given to me the basic response was that in the school they were taught to prepare the presentation given an introduction of possibly an hour or sometimes even less, the workings of a presentation program and then told to just go home and do it. They were never told how to actually go about creating this presentation effectively and �go do it� is hardly an effective way to tell somebody to learn something.
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Alternatively if the teacher training academies do believe that teachers should prepare their own presentations so that they are most suitably adapted to the needs and the special style of the teacher then the teachers should be given much more extensive training in the preparation, more than just told to �go do it�.
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Even with the best of intentions teachers go into the profession not necessarily because of their artistic abilities but because they know how to teach. This means that it may not be fair to expect teachers to also be graphic artists and to be able to prepare the best possible presentations.
This is why professionals should prepare them.
Teachers can be expected to modify existing presentations for their own need and this way they will be able to produce excellent materials if given the basic the basic material, even if it violates or negates their own point of view or their own directions and manner of teaching, they can use it as a springboard for their own materials. The graphics themselves will probably remain the same, the sequence, the order, and basic concepts will remain the same and the teacher will be able to adjust it and adapt it to his or her own teaching style.
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