Business Computer Applications 11 - Presentations

PRESCRIBED LEARNING OUTCOMES

It is expected that students will:

• research, plan, and produce both oral and written reports
• apply group problem-solving and decision-making skills to complete business tasks
• demonstrate a willingness to participate as a member of a team
• demonstrate acknowledgment of and respect for the different attributes, opinions, and roles of team members
• explain the contribution of leadership and teamwork to the workplace environment

SUGGESTED INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES

• Encourage students to practise teamwork through group projects requiring complex interaction skills. For example:
  • Review group-work skills, then have students in groups design a new logo for a school or community organization. Each group organizes its work and assigns members responsibilities for researching the organization's needs, designing the logo, presenting it to the organization, anticipating questions, and preparing responses.
  • Students plan, organize, and conduct a class meeting to decide on an issue (e.g., how to improve the physical layout of the class). Using an accepted standard for meeting guidelines, they examine and respond to a range of perspectives before coming to a decision. During the meeting, students use problem-solving and decision-making skills such as note taking, active listening, and consensus building.
• Invite a local human resources manager to the class to talk about how employers assess individuals as members of a team. After the presentation, have students in small groups discuss the teamwork they observe in school, in the workplace, and at home. Suggest that students keep written or audio journals and identify ways they and others have contributed constructively to team projects as well as ways their contributions were less constructive. Invite them to suggest ways to improve their contributions.
• Have each student select a different travel destination, plan a tour, and write and present a report to sell the tour to others.

SUGGESTED ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES

• Observe as students work in groups to solve business problems. Note the extent to which each is able to:
  • accept responsibility for her or his group's objectives
  • listen actively and act responsibly and respectfully toward others
  • assume various roles (to give or take direction) within the group
  • contribute ideas, experiences, and information to the group
  • deal constructively with disagreements or conflicts
  • synthesize the group's efforts to produce a coherent product
• Review the journals students develop to report on contributions to team projects. Note evidence that they:
  • recognize personal contributions to the success of their projects
  • recognize the contributions of all members of their teams
  • refer to specific strategies or incidents and analyse how they worked
  • set goals for future group work
• Provide the class with criteria for oral presentations. Criteria could address content (e.g., accuracy, breadth of information, variety of sources, provision of summary, indication of insights) and presentation (e.g., well organized, appropriate style used, supported by visual materials, clearly articulated, eye contact used). Have students use the criteria for self- and peer assessment.

• Exploring Desktop Publishing: A Projects Approach
• Working in Teams: Interaction and Communication

• Team Working

• Business Desktop Publishing Applications
• Excursions International: A Computer Applications Simulation, Third Edition

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