Over the course of this
module, ES2007s, I believe that it has gradually trained me to be a better
communicator. As a statistic major student, I have little presentation
opportunities and these are limited to tutorial presentations where students
merely scribbled their derived mathematic answers on the board and mumbled what
they wrote, either presenting it to the floor or the board, never the audience.
That was the way we “presented”. Since presentations are not graded and that no
emphasis is placed on the importance of presentation, there is simply no
incentive for us to work on our presentation skills. In addition, many of us
will probably only deal with data in our future jobs. However, studying for a business
minor requires me to present well as strong emphasis is placed on presentations
in business modules. This semester, I had a total of 6 business presentations
and I was really fortunate that ES2007s’ peer teaching came before any of them.
This allowed me to be able to practice and improve before my competitive business
presentations, where almost everyone presents like a professional. Therefore, the
biggest takeaway from this module will definitely be the many presentation
opportunities given, especially peer teachings, the improvements I have made and
skills I have learnt, over the course of this module.
Learning from Peer teachings:
Challenges faced and skills improved on:
· Since the
duration of peer teaching covers the entire tutorial, it was the longest
presentation I ever gave and it had the largest amount of content I ever covered
over a presentation. Initially, I had difficult trying to remember my script since
there were a lot to remember but after much manipulation, I managed to include
the various key words into my slides which not only serves to draw my audience’s
attention to the key points but also serves as a cue and prompt to guide my
presentation smoothly.
Thus, I’ve learnt the usefulness and importance
of effective slides and how to create such slides to better facilitate presentations
to both the presenter and the audience.
· The other
challenge I faced is the ability to facilitate understanding of my peers on the
content I was teaching. I have probably asked myself numerous times throughout
my preparation if there was a better way to deliver my peer teaching to allow
them to not only understand but also retain what I have taught in my peer
teaching session. After much consideration, I decided that teaching through
examples then applying what you have learn straight away and ending with a
recap is the most effective way to deliver what I want my audience to know.
During my presentation, my method was proved effective when my audience are
able to apply the techniques they have learnt effectively by writing awesome bad
letters with my given scenarios, and I could not be any happier. Through this I
have learn the techniques to giving an effective peer teaching or rather
presentation and I firmly believe this will be of great use in the workplace in
future!
Overall skills
learnt: Skills learnt from peer
teachings come from the topics I covered, the experiences gained and also the
comments given by my facilitator, Mdm Fazilah, and from the classmates in the
peer review. I have learnt the importance of the use of gestures and eye
contact while presenting to draw your audience attention to key points or to
better illustrate certain points and to reach out to them respectively.
Furthermore, I also learnt the how I should vary in intonation to make my
presentation more convincing and interesting, and to smile more to exude a
friendlier vibe during my presentation. All these are valuable skills learnt
and I truly appreciate the various comments given and the experiences
themselves. Lastly, I would like to thank Mdm Fazilah and my classmates for making ES2007s such a pleasurable and fruitful experience in my last semester
of my undergraduate studies. Thank you!
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