P691G – Graduate Student Professional Development Seminar

Week 11 – Designing presentations for in-class and your professional life using backward design

Objectives

• Define goal and objective
• List the sequence of backward design
• Describe an elevator pitch

Preparation

• VoiceThread – Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development. Backwards Design – Lesson 1: Backwards Design. YouTube. Teaching Development Videos. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6XS5duNXJ8.
• VoiceThread– Institute for Teaching Excellence and Faculty Development. Backwards Design – Lesson 2: Goals and Objectives. YouTube. Teaching Development Videos. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-kN1yNWy0k.

Activites

• Define a situation for a two-minute elevator pitch
• Write a goal for the elevator pitch, “what do you expect the recipient to remember in 2-3 weeks?”
• Write an objective for the elevator pitch
• Start writing the elevator pitch