You’ll be putting together a pitch presentation for your school, but what does a successful presentation look like?

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Topic: Presentation of Learning

Email 7 (of 8)

You’ll be putting together a pitch presentation for your school, but what does a successful presentation look like?

This is it. The deliverable you’ve been working on building piece by piece throughout this course:

Your Pitch Presentation

This presentation will have you covering all the aspects of your new school and can be used as a pitch you can send to potential funders. You’ll get more information on the presentation in the activity section of the email, but be sure to make your way through the readings and models to see how other people have handled this task.

Featured Materials

Below is a preview of some of the additional readings, videos, comics, and other resources to enhance your learning regarding this email’s topic. You can review these materials in full by going to the course landing page.


Staff Analysis: Presentations of Learning This email’s video goes in depth on one of the core pieces of learning at High Tech High: The Presentation of Learning. It explains the important elements of a POL, why they matter, and how to set them up.		POLs Keep Us Informed and Accountable Phil Wagner, current Google Employee and former HTH educator, explains the concept of a Presentation of Learning (POL) and how to properly facilitate one to better enhance a student’s reflection on their experiences.

POL Prep Documents This is a collection of four POL support documents written by Kay Flewelling, a former HTH Educator. They cover various aspects of the planning that goes into having students ready for POLs

Weekly Activity

Activity: Placing Your School On A Map

Instructions

Presentation of Learning Requirements:

Create a 10 - 30 minute presentation of your proposed school design. Use visual aids of choice (a spreadsheet, website creation, brochure, puppet show, etc.) to show the key aspects of your school design narrative. You may record yourself verbally presenting your school with accompanying visuals,or through a video you can post on a video hosting service (we originally suggested YouTube).

At the very least, the presentation must touch on the following elements of your school design narrative:

Purpose
Pedagogy
Student Mix
Faculty
Hiring Process
Neighborhood

You may record yourself through a camera and make a separate slideshow presentation of your narrative. Think of different slideshow programs and websites and consider how in depth you want your slideshow to be. Record yourself giving the slideshow before uploading it to a video hosting service (we originally suggested YouTube).

Alternative methods:

Make a website that has your entire final project completed to be interactive.
Make a comic, animation, or puppet show explaining your narrative
Be creative! What can you do that would make an effective and entertaining POL?

Feedback (Optional)

Try showing your POL to your peers/colleagues. What thoughts do they have? Do they believe your school will be successful? Does it touch on all of the elements of school design mentioned above? What could be improved about your presentation?

Activity Models

Student Activity Model 1
If you need inspiration, look at the student models provided within the document above to see how others completed this assignment. Here is a full final Presentation of Learning that was given at the end of the original course run. It covers all subjects that were taught throughout the course.

Student Activity Model 2
If you need inspiration, look at the student models provided within the document above to see how others completed this assignment Here is another final Presentation of Learning that was given at the end of the original course run, covering all subjects that were taught throughout the course.

Student Activity Model 3
If you need inspiration, look at the student models provided within the document above to see how others completed this assignment.*

*This model is a zip file that contains the full video presentation and accompanying slides from past participants of the course.

School Talk 6:
Question and Answer Session

During the original course run, Larry and Patrick hosted live weekly chats with thought leaders to address that unit's theme. In this email’s talk, thought leaders participate in an open Q&A session.


	Video Version This is a video of the original talk as it occurred. It is a screen capture of a Google Hangouts conversation		Podcast Version This week's talk has also been converted into podcast form for you to listen to.

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