Oral Presentation
1. Make sure your claims and counter-claims are stated as answers to your Knowledge Question. Cite an authoritative source for your claim and, if you use a quote, make sure you also restate the claim in your own words.
2. Every claim, counter claim, TOK connection MUST have at least one story/example as evidence connected to it (beginning/middle/end). Ideally, you will share multiple stories/pieces of evidence. These stories must help explain the TOK connection and claim. Your stories should be a mix of personal ones and ones you’ve learned from texts, movies, history, etc. Be sure to connect them back to the knowledge question! No hypotheticals.
3.In your conclusion, make it very clear what you think (the conclusion is where you should be sharing your opinion, not in the body of the presentation) the implications your research has for your Real Life situation and other real life situations. In other words, how are you thinking differently about your real life situation now, after all your research, than when you first developed the question. How might it inform your thinking about similar real life situations in the future?
4.In your IB Presentation Planning Document, review these three links: Exemplar IB Presentation Planning document. Exemplar Presentation Planning Document from IB. Here is one with notes on how to complete it. Your Presentation Planning Document should look like the two exemplars! Remember, when you submit your final Presentation Planning Document, I must receive one from each of you if you are a two-person group (they can look the same). I only need one copy of the overall, complete outline.
TOK PPD Form
NOTE: This schedule has links to all necessary resources. However, if you would like to see even more examples from previous years’ classes of videotaped TOK Presentations, outlines, presentation planning documents and PowerPoints, click on this Oral Presentations tag and scroll down.
FIRST WEEK Presentation
GOALS:
* Students become familiar with basics of TOK Presentation
* Decide if they are going to do it on their own, work with one other person, or work with two others
* Decide on topic and Primary Knowledge Question (Some advice: Once you come up with a Knowledge Question you like, look at it again to see if you can make it more broad. Also, look at it and see if it is more like a topic that would be appropriate for English or Social Studies class.)
Good knowledge questions often start with:
To what extent….?
How far…?
How…?
What role does…?
Under what circumstances…?
How can we know?
* Your most important thinking will come by having to make multiple TOK connections to each claim, developing stories and examples to illustrate and support them, and applying those claims to your real-life situation.
* At least two of your claims must also have counter-claims to demonstrate that you have the ability to see both sides of an issue.
1. Review Topics and Primary Knowledge Questions
2. Review the qualities of a knowledge question
3. Past Topics, Primary Knowledge Questions & Secondary Knowledge Questions
4. Excellent Examples Of Knowledge Issues For Oral Presentation
5. Presentation Outline For Presentations
6. Exemplar Outline for presentation from 2016 class
7. Here is the official Presentation Planning Document for the 2017 class
8. Exemplar IB Presentation Planning document. Here is one with notes on how to complete it.
7. Exemplar Presentation Planning Document from IB
8. IB Presentation Rubric
9. Watch videos of previous presentations:
This is one from the 2016 class. It is the presentation related to the model outline and presentation planning document that we reviewed earlier.
Take out the outline guide (number five above) and jot down notes where they cover, or don’t cover, the required elements. In addition, note what you liked about the presentation.
10. Decide on your group (or if you are doing it alone), your topic, and your primary knowledge question.
Here’s an example of what happened with a group last year:
They had chosen bullying as their topic and began with a primary knowledge question of “How can we stop bullying?” I pushed them to consider that bullying was a symptom of something, to talk among themselves about what might the “disease” or “cause” might be, and to base their primary knowledge question about that. Ultimately, they developed this excellent one: “How does power influence how we treat each other?” They will then develop their secondary ones, and, if they want, they will be able to use bullying as an example in their exploration of all of their secondary questions.
12. One of the elements in the second presentation you watched is their sharing the results of an experiment they did themselves.
Review Surveys & Experiments For Oral Presentations to get more ideas for experiments you could do related to your presentation. What ideas are you coming up with?
13. Turn in your topic and primary knowledge question to Mr. Ferlazzo by the end of Friday – either on paper or by email larryferlazzo at dot com.
Michelle did this exceptional Oral Presentation in 2017. You can find links to all her materials after the video:
Slideshow
PowerPoint
Oral Presentation Outline
Presentation Planning Document
Jose also did an exceptional presentation in 2017. You can also find all the links to his materials after his video:
Presentation Outline
IB TOK Oral Presentation Form
SECOND WEEK
GOALS:
* Create all secondary knowledge questions
* Review more presentation basics
* Begin work on presentation outline
1. Review this short presentation guide from TOK.net Identify two pieces of information from it that you think will help you in your presentation.
2.Read this guide and discuss – identify at least three useful pieces of information and one question (if it is blocked by school filters, access it here.
Giving a Good TOK Presentation by Michael Smith
3. Review Nobody Wants To Hear Your Academic Gobbledygook. Go to the link in it about telling stories.
Write three important points you learned that will help you with the presentation.
THIRD WEEK
GOALS:
* Draft Outline of presentation
* Begin work on Google Slides or Prezi
1. Review Google Slides from the first exemplar presentation that we viewed – What are three things you notice that would help you?
Google Slides from above presentation
2. Student Models Of PowerPoints For Oral Presentations are from older years prior to IB’s changes, but are still useful. What are three things you notice that would help you?
3. Review Final Hints For Oral Presentation & PowerPoint
4. Review The Best Sources Of Advice For Making Good Presentations – What are three things you learned that would be useful to your presentation?
5.Review Presentation Checklist.
FOURTH WEEK
GOALS:
* Students finalize outline and Google Slides
* Presentation schedule set
1. Make changes in your outline based on Mr. Ferlazzo’s comments
2. Complete Google SLides and send it to Mr. Ferlazzo by the end of Friday. Get his feedback prior to emailing it, if possible.
3. Begin practicing your presentation
4. Decide on schedule, including ““guinea pig” group to present the following week.
FIFTH WEEK
GOALS:
* Presentation Practice completed
* Guinea Pig group presents
* All presentations finalized
1. All groups practice presenting to at least two other groups. Use this checklist to anonymously evaluate the presentations made to you.
2. Guinea Pig group presents and is critiqued in front of class.
3. Other student groups get two days to make revisions and complete all presentations by the end of next week.
4. Everybody completes official IB Presentation Planning Document: Presentation Planning Document
It’s a “fillable” PDF document, but will not work if you save it in your browser. You must download it to your computer and then fill it in. Every person in your group can have the same document, but you must email it to Mr. Ferlazzo separately.
Here are two more examples of excellent Presentation Planning Documents. They are in a Word Document, but have the same questions as the PDF:
Official Presentation Planning Document
Official Presentation Planning Document
SIXTH WEEK
GOALS:
* All presentations completed
* All Presentation Planning Documents Submitted
* If students decide they want one, plans are made for a pot luck the following week to celebrate completion of the Oral Presentations
1. Presentations done
2. Email planning documents
2. Every claim, counter claim, TOK connection MUST have at least one story/example as evidence connected to it (beginning/middle/end). Ideally, you will share multiple stories/pieces of evidence. These stories must help explain the TOK connection and claim. Your stories should be a mix of personal ones and ones you’ve learned from texts, movies, history, etc. Be sure to connect them back to the knowledge question! No hypotheticals.
3.In your conclusion, make it very clear what you think (the conclusion is where you should be sharing your opinion, not in the body of the presentation) the implications your research has for your Real Life situation and other real life situations. In other words, how are you thinking differently about your real life situation now, after all your research, than when you first developed the question. How might it inform your thinking about similar real life situations in the future?
4.In your IB Presentation Planning Document, review these three links: Exemplar IB Presentation Planning document. Exemplar Presentation Planning Document from IB. Here is one with notes on how to complete it. Your Presentation Planning Document should look like the two exemplars! Remember, when you submit your final Presentation Planning Document, I must receive one from each of you if you are a two-person group (they can look the same). I only need one copy of the overall, complete outline.
TOK PPD Form
NOTE: This schedule has links to all necessary resources. However, if you would like to see even more examples from previous years’ classes of videotaped TOK Presentations, outlines, presentation planning documents and PowerPoints, click on this Oral Presentations tag and scroll down.
FIRST WEEK Presentation
GOALS:
* Students become familiar with basics of TOK Presentation
* Decide if they are going to do it on their own, work with one other person, or work with two others
* Decide on topic and Primary Knowledge Question (Some advice: Once you come up with a Knowledge Question you like, look at it again to see if you can make it more broad. Also, look at it and see if it is more like a topic that would be appropriate for English or Social Studies class.)
Good knowledge questions often start with:
To what extent….?
How far…?
How…?
What role does…?
Under what circumstances…?
How can we know?
- Identify Knowledge Question
- Identify “Claims” (different answers to your Knowledge Question)
- Download class outline and IB Presentation Planning Document into Google Drive
- Identify Real Life Experience
* Your most important thinking will come by having to make multiple TOK connections to each claim, developing stories and examples to illustrate and support them, and applying those claims to your real-life situation.
* At least two of your claims must also have counter-claims to demonstrate that you have the ability to see both sides of an issue.
1. Review Topics and Primary Knowledge Questions
2. Review the qualities of a knowledge question
3. Past Topics, Primary Knowledge Questions & Secondary Knowledge Questions
4. Excellent Examples Of Knowledge Issues For Oral Presentation
5. Presentation Outline For Presentations
6. Exemplar Outline for presentation from 2016 class
7. Here is the official Presentation Planning Document for the 2017 class
8. Exemplar IB Presentation Planning document. Here is one with notes on how to complete it.
7. Exemplar Presentation Planning Document from IB
8. IB Presentation Rubric
9. Watch videos of previous presentations:
This is one from the 2016 class. It is the presentation related to the model outline and presentation planning document that we reviewed earlier.
Take out the outline guide (number five above) and jot down notes where they cover, or don’t cover, the required elements. In addition, note what you liked about the presentation.
10. Decide on your group (or if you are doing it alone), your topic, and your primary knowledge question.
Here’s an example of what happened with a group last year:
They had chosen bullying as their topic and began with a primary knowledge question of “How can we stop bullying?” I pushed them to consider that bullying was a symptom of something, to talk among themselves about what might the “disease” or “cause” might be, and to base their primary knowledge question about that. Ultimately, they developed this excellent one: “How does power influence how we treat each other?” They will then develop their secondary ones, and, if they want, they will be able to use bullying as an example in their exploration of all of their secondary questions.
12. One of the elements in the second presentation you watched is their sharing the results of an experiment they did themselves.
Review Surveys & Experiments For Oral Presentations to get more ideas for experiments you could do related to your presentation. What ideas are you coming up with?
13. Turn in your topic and primary knowledge question to Mr. Ferlazzo by the end of Friday – either on paper or by email larryferlazzo at dot com.
Michelle did this exceptional Oral Presentation in 2017. You can find links to all her materials after the video:
Slideshow
PowerPoint
Oral Presentation Outline
Presentation Planning Document
Jose also did an exceptional presentation in 2017. You can also find all the links to his materials after his video:
Presentation Outline
IB TOK Oral Presentation Form
SECOND WEEK
GOALS:
* Create all secondary knowledge questions
* Review more presentation basics
* Begin work on presentation outline
1. Review this short presentation guide from TOK.net Identify two pieces of information from it that you think will help you in your presentation.
2.Read this guide and discuss – identify at least three useful pieces of information and one question (if it is blocked by school filters, access it here.
Giving a Good TOK Presentation by Michael Smith
3. Review Nobody Wants To Hear Your Academic Gobbledygook. Go to the link in it about telling stories.
Write three important points you learned that will help you with the presentation.
THIRD WEEK
GOALS:
* Draft Outline of presentation
* Begin work on Google Slides or Prezi
1. Review Google Slides from the first exemplar presentation that we viewed – What are three things you notice that would help you?
Google Slides from above presentation
2. Student Models Of PowerPoints For Oral Presentations are from older years prior to IB’s changes, but are still useful. What are three things you notice that would help you?
3. Review Final Hints For Oral Presentation & PowerPoint
4. Review The Best Sources Of Advice For Making Good Presentations – What are three things you learned that would be useful to your presentation?
5.Review Presentation Checklist.
FOURTH WEEK
GOALS:
* Students finalize outline and Google Slides
* Presentation schedule set
1. Make changes in your outline based on Mr. Ferlazzo’s comments
2. Complete Google SLides and send it to Mr. Ferlazzo by the end of Friday. Get his feedback prior to emailing it, if possible.
3. Begin practicing your presentation
4. Decide on schedule, including ““guinea pig” group to present the following week.
FIFTH WEEK
GOALS:
* Presentation Practice completed
* Guinea Pig group presents
* All presentations finalized
1. All groups practice presenting to at least two other groups. Use this checklist to anonymously evaluate the presentations made to you.
2. Guinea Pig group presents and is critiqued in front of class.
3. Other student groups get two days to make revisions and complete all presentations by the end of next week.
4. Everybody completes official IB Presentation Planning Document: Presentation Planning Document
It’s a “fillable” PDF document, but will not work if you save it in your browser. You must download it to your computer and then fill it in. Every person in your group can have the same document, but you must email it to Mr. Ferlazzo separately.
Here are two more examples of excellent Presentation Planning Documents. They are in a Word Document, but have the same questions as the PDF:
Official Presentation Planning Document
Official Presentation Planning Document
SIXTH WEEK
GOALS:
* All presentations completed
* All Presentation Planning Documents Submitted
* If students decide they want one, plans are made for a pot luck the following week to celebrate completion of the Oral Presentations
1. Presentations done
2. Email planning documents