PowerPoint for Teachers: Creating Interactive Lessons

Learn how to enhance your instruction with activities and multimedia. Create interactive lessons, design engaging slides, create learning activities, and incorporate games.

Do you want to breathe new life into your classroom? Although the lecture method of teaching may feel comfortable, today's classroom needs an active learning experience. This can be achieved with clever use of Microsoft PowerPoint.Join Faith Brill as she demonstrates how to create dynamic, student-centered, hands-on learning activities using PowerPoint. If you've used PowerPoint as a book replacement in the past, learn how to transition to using it as a tool, enhancing your instruction with discussion, activities, and multimedia. Get ready to try new techniques so you can embed these new approaches into your practice. This course helps teachers of any grade level, K–12 and higher ed, to move beyond passive teaching with bullet points to teaching with interactive lessons that engage students.

Introduction

• Welcome
• Set yourself up for success

1. Active Learning in the Classroom

• High-tech teaching in a low-tech classroom
• Changing our perspective on using PPT
• Why active learning?

2. Design Effective PowerPoint Slides

• Five essentials for designing effective slides
• Use speaker notes in PowerPoint

3. Create Interactive Lessons and Activities

• Classroom setup: Use a projector and floor space
• Student-centered and inquiry-based learning
• Must-have PowerPoint activity ideas
• Getting hands-on with games
• Teach with role play
• Additional learning supports
• Teach adult learners in higher ed

4. Organize Your Classroom and Curriculum with PowerPoint

• Organize your day
• Backward mapping and assessments

Conclusion

• Next steps