ABSTRACT
The Presentation and Demonstration, are the most “teacher-centered”, depending entirely on the instructor’s selection of content, gathering of sources and materials, and choice of time and place of delivery. Fitting into the category of Presentation are the many and varied ways facilitators transmit information to multiple learners simultaneously. Facilitators are using the Presentation configuration when they are speaking or showing visual or verbal information, such as with an image projector or electronic slide show. The most obvious format for employing the Presentation configuration is a lecture or any sort of oral presentation, the “most common method for training adults worldwide,” according to Ruth Colvin Clark, highly regarded corporate consultant and research synthesizer. The Presentation configuration is virtually ubiquitous in live classroom instruction because instructional objectives, whether cognitive, affective, interpersonal, or psychomotor, almost always entail imparting some new information. The recommended solution to this problem is that visual presentations should be accompanied with vocal narration rather than printed text.
