Crafting Your Message: Tips and Tricks for Educators to Deliver Perfect Presentations (A clear process for planning and delivering highly effective presentations) - Softcover

Tammy Heflebower

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1949539490 ISBN 13: 9781949539493

Publisher: Solution Tree Press, 2019

Synopsis

Become a confident, dynamic presenter with the guidance of Crafting Your Message. Written by expert presenter Tammy Heflebower, this book outlines a clear process for planning and delivering highly effective presentations, overcoming speech anxiety, and improving communication skills. In total, more than 100 ideas and strategies are shared to help you augment your message, from triggering thinking and building consensus to summarizing information and checking for understanding.

Embrace the art of public speaking, and discover what makes a successful presentation stand out:

• Develop an understanding of presentation as a skill that can be improved through practice and positive feedback.
• Become familiar with the unique learning needs of adults and how best to meet those needs through the art of presentation.
• Discover ways to elevate all aspects of your presentations, from designing the message itself to considering audio, visuals, and room setup.
• Explore numerous strategies to improve your success with and effectiveness in each step of the presentation process.
• Improve self-confidence, handle speech anxiety, and overcome a fear of public speaking.

Contents:
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
About the Author
Introduction
Part One: The Message
Chapter 1: Preparing an Effective Message
Chapter 2: Planning the Delivery
Chapter 3: Setting the Stage
Chapter 4: Creating Effective Introductions and Conclusions
Chapter 5: Delivering the Message
Chapter 6: Designing Visuals and Print Materials
Chapter 7: Reflecting On Your Practice
Chapter 8: Presenting Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting
Part Two: Processes and Protocols
Chapter 9: Team Building
Chapter 10: Triggering Thinking
Chapter 11: Processing and Practicing
Chapter 12: Consensus Building
Chapter 13: Summarizing
Chapter 14: Checking for Understanding
Conclusion
Appendix
References
Index

About this title

About the Author

Tammy Heflebower, EdD, is a highly sought-after school leader and consultant with vast experience in urban, rural, and suburban districts throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, and the Netherlands. Dr. Heflebower has served as an award-winning classroom teacher, building leader, district leader, regional professional development director, and national and international trainer. She has also been an adjunct professor of curriculum, instruction, and assessment at several universities, and a prominent member and leader of numerous statewide and national educational organizations. Dr. Heflebower was the vice president and then senior scholar at Marzano Research prior to becoming the CEO of her own company, !nspire Inc.: Education and Business Solutions. She also specializes in powerful presentation and facilitation techniques--writing and sharing them worldwide.

Dr. Heflebower is widely published. She is lead author of the award-winning book A School Leader's Guide to Standards-Based Grading and the award-finalist book A Teacher's Guide to Standards-Based Learning. She is coauthor of Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools: The Next Step in PLCs and Teaching and Assessing 21st Century Skills. She is a contributor to A Handbook for High Reliability Schools: The Next Step in School Reform, Becoming a Reflective Teacher, Coaching Classroom Instruction, The Highly Engaged Classroom, The Principal as Assessment Leader, The Teacher as Assessment Leader, and Using Common Core Standards to Enhance Classroom Instruction and Assessment. Her articles have been featured in Kappan, Educational Leadership, Diversity Journal, Education Week blog, and the Nebraska Council of School Administrators Today.

Dr. Heflebower holds a bachelor of arts from Hastings College in Hastings, Nebraska, where she was honored as an Outstanding Young Alumna and her team was inducted into the hall of fame. She has a master of arts from the University of Nebraska Omaha. She also earned an educational administrative endorsement and a doctor of education in educational administration from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Jan K. Hoegh has been an educator for 30-plus years and an author and associate for Marzano Resources since 2010. Prior to joining the Marzano team, she was a classroom teacher, building-level leader, professional development specialist, assistant high school principal, curriculum coordinator, and most recently assistant director of statewide assessment for the Nebraska Department of Education, where her primary focus was Nebraska State Accountability Test development. Jan has served on a variety of statewide and national standards and assessment committees and has presented at numerous conferences around the world.

As an associate with Marzano Research, Jan works with educators across the country and beyond as they strive to improve student achievement. Her passion for education, combined with extensive knowledge of curriculum, instruction, and assessment, provides credible support for teachers, leaders, schools, and districts. A primary training focus for Jan is high-quality classroom assessment and grading practices. She is a coauthor of the books Collaborative Teams That Transform Schools (2016) and A School Leader's Guide to Standards-Based Grading (2014), as well as other publications.

Jan holds a bachelor of arts in elementary education and a master of arts in educational administration, both from the University of Nebraska-Kearney. She also earned a specialization in assessment from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solution Tree Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1949539490
• ISBN 13: 9781949539493
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176