Why Use PowerPoint Presentations for Lesson Plans?

September 28, 2020

Why Use PowerPoint Presentations

for Lesson Plans?

I can hear you now, "You really expect me to add yet another new way of doing something as simple as lessons and lesson plans?".

I've been where you are. When creating new lessons or teaching previously taught concepts, I was always hunting down all the materials, resources, rubrics, center activities, etc.. I was determined to find a way to combine all these materials into a single spot. This One Spot needed to be Easy to Update and must Actively Engage Students To this end, I found myself creating PowerPoint Presentations that included visuals and/or and/or animation, links to online activities, sentence frames, and all associated materials.

Why Use PowerPoint?

• Allow for multi-modality (multi-sensory) instruction

• Accompany and compliment oral delivery

• More dynamic lessons (more than just teacher talk and dry erase markers)

• Offer more value

• More organized, flexible, and easily updated and modified and thus save the teacher time

• Interactive multimedia, images, sounds, and animation that capture student interest and

attention and help them better retain what they are learning

• Greater student engagement

• Saves paper

• Allow for easier collaboration with other educators

Improved Student Learning:

• Students show greater engagement

• Student comprehension is improved by making lessons more engaging and interactive

• Interactive multimedia, images, sounds, and animation capture student interest/attention and help them better retain what they are learning

• Students show greater engagement and grasp concepts more easily

Unanticipated benefits

• Absent students can receive the same instruction (replay the presentation or send to them via email, zip drive, Google Drive, Link, etc.

• They double as great sub plans