GUIDELINES FOR PLANNING A GROUP PRESENTATION
The following group project task list offers a suggested order for approaching a project. It’s certainly possible to do these steps in a different order if you wish. But taking the time to accomplish each step will help you produce better work.
It’s also likely that you’ll have to go back and forth between steps. In other words, your group may decide that it needs to repeat one or more of these steps in order to correct deficiencies that become apparent after the group thinks that it has “finished” one part of its preparation.
GROUP PROJECT TASK LIST
STEP #1: ORIENTATION
STEP #2: DIVISION OF LABOR
STEP #3. ASSESSMENT Use some of your group meetings to review what members have accomplished up to that point.
STEP #4. PRESENTATION PLANNING Once the research on the project is fairly far along, the group needs to turn its attention to the question of HOW to orally present the material the group gathered. MANY GROUPS MAKE THE MISTAKE OF WANTING TO TALK ABOUT THE PLAN FOR THE PRESENTATION TOO SOON. Wait until the group has a pretty good idea of what they’ll be talking about.