Presentation Skills (50-60 mins)
This lesson helps build students’ confidence, clarity, and effectiveness in spoken and visual communication by improving their ability to speak across various contexts, while providing them with transferable skills and techniques that promote reflective thinking and support lifelong learning.
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this lesson learners should be able to:
- Demonstrate increased confidence and courage when speaking in front of others.
- Speak with clarity and purpose, adapting their communication style to suit different audiences and contexts.
- Be able to use breathing strategies to become calmer before speaking.
- Understand the importance of first impressions.
- Reflect on their speaking and listening experiences to identify strengths, challenges, and strategies for continuous
improvement.
Resources:
- Lesson Plan
- PowerPoint Presentation
Prior to making these resources available, schools will need a to provide a signed Data Sharing Agreement and student cohort data (documents and support to complete will be provided to schools on receipt of the resource request). Registers of students who participated in the lesson to be returned to LiNCHigher within 1 week of the lesson taking place. This is to enable reporting of student engagement with the Uni Connect project regulators, the Office for Students.