New Instructor!

[WildBill]

Keep an eye on your students. When they are wiggling in their seats......you need to call a break. Don't let them sit there and ask for a break. By the time they do, they have been concentrating on the bathroom for 15 - 20 minutes and missed the information you were presenting. Make sure you give an exact time limit for the breaks also. That way you wont have to go searching for them.

This is also great advice. When you gotta go, you gotta go.
Look to them for feedback via body languages such as confused looks, frowns, fidgeting, etc.

[THAYWALLACESR]

Hello,

I'm now in your position. I am trying to get a presentation so I can adapt it to my own. I been teaching for 15 years to Police Offices so this is completely new to me.

Can you help?

[thetexan]

First, do not attempt to prepare a presentation that will fit into four hours. It can't be done...properly.

I can not teach the class....PROPERLY....in less than 5 and a half hours. There is just too many topics to cover. And the legal section takes most of 4 hours if it is done thoroughly.

Just sit down with your outline and make a power point place holder slide for each topic. There are about 85 topics I believe. This will get you started.
Then your talents as an instructor to teach a topic. Write down what points need to be made, how to teach those points and any graphics you might want to use. Then with those notes create the associated powerpoint slide(s) for that topic. Then go to the next topic. My presentation uses close to 200 slides.

Its a big task when you do it. But once it's done you will have it from then on.

Tex