HEALTHCARE EXHIBITION: Improve comfortable zone for students to present Healthcare Presentation
in front of audience
Though the project is group work, feeling anxious
is a part of students’ problems where they have to show their capability in
speaking by presenting a healthcare education in front of examiners and
visitors. They feel worried about their oral and graph performance as they are
to explain the topic, show procedures and answer the examiners and visitors’
questions related to the topic. On the
other hand, the facilitators who teach them may find difficult situation
where they have to be able to bridge the syllabus target and the students’
preparation before the-day. Here are some points that facilitators can do to
reduce students’ anxiety by doing the following activities.
1.
A closer
look to Healthcare Exhibition
Students studying in intermediate level learn
how to prepare a healthcare exhibition at the end of the class. They have to be
able to deliver healthcare presentation including the opening stage, main
activity and closing stage. To make easier for them, it is useful for the
facilitators to explain what Healthcare exhibition is, what the purposes of the
exhibition are, what they are going to do on the d-day, what they have to
prepare for the project before the event and what kinds of English skills they
have to master. Show some pictures related to the exhibition and video of other
students’ performance will help the students to get pictures of the event.
2.
Becoming
helpful facilitators
There are some roles of
facilitators that can help students well-prepared on the exhibition. First,
they are planners. They have to
prepare and think through the lesson in detail before teaching so it has
variety for different learners in class. Next, they become informers. They have to be able to explain the topics, the material
or even the activities they are going to do during the level. Then, they have
to be able to become monitors. They
should go around the class during individual, pair or work group activities and
check learning. They also become involvers.
They must make sure that learners take parts in each meeting activities. Besides, they have to be friends for learners to comfort them
when they have problems with the project. They have to be diagnosticians who are able to recognize the cause of learners’
difficulties with the lessons and project and the last but not least, they are
resources for the learners to help and advice them in completing the project.
3. Progress
Check
This is the activity that takes
an important part during the class period. Checking students’ work will help
them to find out what kinds of mistakes they have done and what they have to do
to fulfill the checklist work done. Facilitators monitor students’ work by scheduling
the activities they must do for each meeting, starting from selecting the
topic, writing the first draft for the leaflet, checking the grammar and
pictures, posters and feedback session to improve their work. In addition, these activities can be
done at the first ten to fifteen minutes before students study the topic. The
facilitators should remind them to be proactive in completing the work and the
progress check will show the learners’ active participation during the learning
process.
4. Final Group Preparation
This is the last job that the facilitators do
before the show. They have to make sure that each group work is ready to
exhibit the presentation. The facilitator must check their work by having the
following checklists. Each group has prepared the leaflet and already made
correction on grammar, pictures, display supporting the pictures and resources.
Next, each group has already prepared
the posters such as pictures and phrases they are going to put. The last is
checking each group readiness in presenting the topic and answering questions
from the facilitators. Make sure that the students do not read the leaflet or
other writing. They have to explain the topic fluently and accurately though
they speak simple language.
5.
Healthcare
Education Show
Here we are!
The real and fun activities finally become true. The students show their work
here and try their best to present their topic with the aids (display). They
are also ready with the accessories, souvenirs for the visitors and the most
important thing is their English. On the
other hand, there is one thing to remember for each facilitator before the
exhibition that they should ask students to decorate the room. Starting from
welcoming banner to invite the visitors to come and enjoy the time with them.
They stay in each booth or stand and set the posters, leaflets, display and
souvenir attractively. Then, they have to follow the welcoming speech from the
facilitator, meeting the examiners and opening the exhibition. Building a cozy
and comfortable place for both the examiners and the students will help them to
practice their English better and have opportunity to explore their knowledge
when answering the audience’s questions. Remember that encouraging the
students’ self confidence during the exhibition will make them easier to face
the stressful atmosphere and
congratulating their work will help them to keep smile.
