Guest Post: Tips for a Successful Presentation

Presentation is very important in an academic and business setting. Business people are required to make effective presentation order to draw the attention of their audience. Students are often required to make presentations in seminars and for others functions as said by their respective professors. There is always a need to understand what and all elements are implemented to make your presentation successful. Keep in mind that boring and lifeless presentation can make your audience dejected. Whether you are a student, businessman, administrator or executive, you may very well be asked to make a presentation. If you find trouble to make an excellent presentation, the following tips can help you to produce a successful presentation.

Preparation

Preparation is one of the most imperative parts of making a successful presentation. Preparation will help you to make presentation without strain and tension. There are no short-cuts to effective presentation but to prepare well for it. You should focus on starting preparation very early and don’t keep it for the last moment. Superior preparation not only makes sure that you have thought watchfully about the information that you would like to communicate in your presentation but it will also assist to enhance your confidence.

Do your research

It is essential for you to carry out research in order to make your presentation successful. You have got to know what you are talking about. It can in fact help you to give an engaging presentation. You should be able to answer every doubt of your audience and you should not leave them with doubts in their mind. No matter whether the occasion is formal or informal, you should always try to present a clear and well-structured delivery.  Effective and thorough research will aid you to give a clear and sound presentation.

Know Your Audience

Every successful presentation originates when the presenter knows his audience. When you know the audience, you will arrange your presentation in a way to persuade and convince them. Students, teachers, businessmen etc require different sorts of presentations. You cannot make your presentation to students that were actually intended for a group of businessmen. You should know about the size of the group and the audience anticipated.

Engage Your Audience

You have to get your audience involved to give an effective presentation. Ask questions with the audience and make them do something to demonstrate your point. Once the audience is engaged, they will listen to you and eventually understand what you are talking about. When you make your audience engaged, you will feel more comfortable to present your ideas.

Keep it relevant

You have to make your presentation relevant in order get the attention of your listeners. Audiences used to keep an eye on stories and ideas that are relevant to them. If you fail to make your presentation relevant, none of your audience will listen to what you are talking about. As a result, it is vital for you to sit back think about points you want to formulate. Once you get some points that are relevant to your audience and then, put together a proper case.

Smile at Your Audience

Remember that first impression is the best impression. So, Smile at your audience when you come to the stage for presentation. Keep on having a smiling face right through your presentation because it draws your audience into your presentation.  

Be Entertaining

The presentation has to be entertaining. It should also be informative. Keep in mind that if you focus on just narrating your key points with no humor or passion, audience will not listen to you and they feel bored. Hence, try to make your presentation entertaining through relevant humor and some other interesting activities.

Move Around

You have to make sure to move around during your presentation so that you catch the attention of audience every second. Don’t try to stand in once place until you complete your presentation. Focus on continually moving around, walk into the audience, walk on the stage, wave your hands etc to get your audience concentration.  

Author Bio:

Amelia Quinn is a blogger, marketer and an expert writer at best essay writing service. She loves creativity and enjoys experimenting with various new techniques in both print and web. She spends her spare time trying to catch up with new trends and technology.

CVs & Résumés: Get Them Right to Get the Job

After a young person completes their education, whether that is immediately after high school or following extensive study at university, their primary ambition is to obtain full-time employment. Although opportunities for graduates have never been greater, competition for jobs has never been tougher, which makes it essential for any candidate to put their best foot forward when applying for work.

The first mission of any job applicant is to ensure that they have a CV that is up to date, accurate and word perfect. Shocking as it may seem, many applicants are closing the door to employment on themselves because of substandard CVs with needless mistakes such as incorrect spelling and poor grammar.

This was an issue that was recognised by Ayers (www.ayers.com.au), an Australian payroll and contractor management company, who developed this infographic on how to write the perfect CV. It contains phrases to avoid, mistakes to look out for and the vital information to include, all within the one visually appealing graphic. Check it out below!

Inclusiveness in primary education needs extraordinary initiatives

Cricket and Primary Education - these most valued issues are playing a pivotal role in carrying Bangladesh’s pride to the world community. Like Shakib, Mashrafi, Mushfiq and Mustafiz, primary school children and their parents under the leadership of present government introduce Bangladesh differently to the other nations of the world as a role model to follow. Primary education in Bangladesh is the flagship of bringing rapid revolutionary success in the indicators like access, attendance, gender parity etc. presenting the country as a role model to the countries all over the world that are lagging far behind in the above mentioned indicators. The success in primary education was not an event but was a process which started immediately after emerging as an independent nation under the visionary and foresighted leadership of the architect of the country, the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. 

Realising the importance of primary education as the first and foremost weapon of economic development of a newly born country, the Father of the Nation took the brave and historical initiative of nationalizing primary education with a view to mainstreaming it. Despite facing a crippled and uncertain economy, the great leader left no stone unturned to educate the country’s entire future generation with a view to building a developed nation for strengthening its economy.

Following in the Father’s vision, the prime minister and daughter of Bangabandhu continues the spirit of developing primary education. As a result, the country has been able to achieve the envious success of rising enrolment and attendance rates, reducing dropout rates and removing gender disparity.

At present almost the entire school going children (99.8%) are enrolled into primary schools. But the scenario is completely different if you visit slums, markets, manufacturing & construction areas and various transports of Dhaka and other cities and urban areas in the country, you can find out of school children during schedule school hours. The issue is the same in the tea gardens and low lying remotest areas of the country. It is true that children of aforesaid vulnerable groups definitely enrolled into schools as it was mandatory for teachers to bring all of a school’s catchment area children into schools. Moreover, it was the commitment of the government too. But hard reality of prevailing family poverty compelled these ill lucked children out of school. 

The Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics Child Labour Report was published in December 2015, but the survey work was conducted in 2013 following the guidelines of the Bangladesh Labour Act 2006 and the conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO). According to this report, there are now as many as 3.45 million working children in the country between the ages 5 to 17 years. Out of them 1.75 million are not child labour by definition and 1.70 million are child labour which includes 1.28 million hazardous child labours. The number of working children in the rural areas is 2.47 million, in urban areas it is 0.57 million and 0.43 million in City Corporation areas. The Report also found that the working children are engaged in different sectors which include agriculture, manufacturing, construction, transport, warehousing, wholesale and retail business, vehicle repairing and mineral. The agriculture sector employs 36.9% working children while manufacturing sector employs 27.3%. The report also says that only 28.6% child labours, 30.9% working children and 19.2% hazardous child labours are currently attending school. As high as 29.3% of the child labour could not ever attend school in order to support family income and this rises to 38.9% among the hazardous child labour. On the other hand, 26.1% child labour and 31.3% hazardous child labour could not ever attend school owing to lack of expense. The importance of economic causes among the child labour and hazardous child labour for not attending school and drop out is notable. That report found that most children – 1.4 million to be specific – employed in hazardous jobs are in Dhaka, the capital city and the centre of all economic activities in the country. The survey found that most children drop out of school because their families cannot afford the expenses of education. Sometimes families take their children out of school thinking learning mathematics and English was less important than learning household work, especially for girls.

Although mainstream primary education is responsible for ensuring primary education for children of 5+ to 10+ age group and Ministry of Primary and Mass Education has initiatives of providing basic education to dropped out and never enrolled children only up to age group 14 from vulnerable families under projects like ROSC, Sishu Kalyan Trust etc, there may be some destitute children up to age group 17 those who have no opportunity to access elementary education. On the other hand, poverty and uncertainty in life because of lacking five basic needs compelled millions of working children to remain out of schools or absent from schools instead of taking advantages of government opportunities. Besides ongoing extraordinary initiatives, the government may think of giving the responsibilities of educating these ill lucked working and vulnerable children to domestic and foreign NGOs through setting up Learning Centers (LCs) in the urban / slum areas with same curriculum designed for mainstream primary education under the supervision of the ministry or its field level agencies. The philosophy of educating these children should be “Children will not come to Learning Centers, rather centers will go to them in their comfortable time and places providing food, clothing and learning materials.” In addition, learning centers might also provide medical facilities and income generating opportunities to its students’ family members with a view to build ownership for sustaining the spirit of learning. There should be the provision of signing contact with working children’s parents and owners of their working places by the NGOs on behalf of the government for ensuring their regular attendance at LCs as well as completing the cycle of primary education. The government might only take responsibility for running mainstream primary education from pre-primary to grade eight aiming to ensure qualitative education.

Inclusiveness in primary education not only means ensuring access as well as regular attendance of all school going children irrespective of gender, religion, economic condition etc. but also ensuring equal qualitative learning of each and every child. Therefore, considering the hard reality of many children as first generation learners, the government might set up “Supportive Learning Centers (SLCs)” in all primary schools with a view to support children to complete their daily lessons. These centers might be run by the NGOs with flexible timetable after schedule school time appointing local part time teachers under the supervision of local primary education authorities.

Economic emancipation and awareness for education are two vital elements for educating dropped out and never enrolled children up to age 17. Therefore, the day is not so far away from now when the country will be able to provide qualitative basic education to its entire children as nowadays people are more motivated to see their children educate as well as the government is enabled to reduce poverty stricken people significantly and making it a lower middle income country. Teachers, field level and Directorate officials and NGOs concerned with primary education might be made accountable by setting annual achievable targets for them determined on the basis of current information regarding quantitative and qualitative aspect of primary education. Moreover, the primary education department badly needs professionalism to get positive outcome. Hopefully the people of the country might experience an educated future generation as the country has a visionary government under the pragmatic leadership of a development friendly Prime Minister.

MD BAYAZID KHAN

auparbayazidkhan@gmail.com

The writer is working for primary education in Bangladesh 

Malala Yousafzai

As a young girl, Malala Yousafzai defied the Taliban in Pakistan by demanding that girls be allowed to receive an education. As a result of her tireless campaigning for equal educational rights, Miss. Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in 2012. Malala miraculously survived the attack and continued to campaign for free education for children worldwide. At the tender age of 18, Malala has already inspired millions of people all over the world. Malala has met with some of the world’s most powerful leaders including US President Barack Obama.

The infographic below, created by Davitt Corporate Partners, looks at the timeline of her life so far and the accomplishments she has achieved.Thanks to Malala, children in Pakistan now have the right to access free education and children all over the world will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Malala’s catapult into fame has allowed young people to have a voice among world education leaders. For her efforts, Malala was awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Kailash Satyarthi. In 2015, Malala released a documentary about her life, increasing her popularity even more.Let’s take a look at Malala’s inspiring journey so far. 

Perfect Tips for Online Students for their Academic Success

The field of education has evolved over time. Online learning has become a new medium of learning for the students students across the globe. In the present day, there are a lot of students studying online and more students are interested to study online. It has allowed people who are working to maintain their education further. Online learning has definitely helped to put in a bit more equilibrium into the life of the working and parenting student. Convenience is the main factor that guides a lot of people to online education. However, online learning is indeed a challenge to online students because they are learning in a completely new medium.

Some of the studies have pointed out that online studies are actually a little harder than the traditional classroom studies. The main reason is that online students will have to plan their study time and other things alone. In online education, student will be their teacher as well because they will have to plan their studies alone and in an effective manner. Online students should not have a careless attitude when taking an online course for the reason that some may attest to be harder than traditional classes.  For students who are thinking of online courses over traditional classroom instruction, here are some perfect tips for academic success.

·         Make Busy Schedules

One of the very important steps that online students must take is creating a busy schedule. To learn successfully through online, the student require to devote a substantial amount of his time constantly to attend the program and should be very much intense while studying especially by totally committing to his  learning procedure. Observably, online students used to start out with full energy and enthusiasm, but it seems to lose the grip as the time progresses. The main reason is that they may get ample free time since they don’t want to follow a time table like in a school or college. Getting ample free time can guide the online students to become lazy in studies. Therefore, make busy schedules and keep engaged in order to acquire academic success.   

         

·         Connect With Instructors

Online students should concentrate on connecting with instructors always because it aids them to clarify heir confusions and doubts. Don’t try to connect with instructors only when you require asking doubts. You have to connect with them every time so that they can aid you to follow and access the exact study materials.

·         Find Answers Independently

It is spot on that instructors are available to help online students throughout the courses. However, students should try to find answers to class questions independently as well. It can aid the students to be creative and thrive in their academic life. You have to be eager to go out and find things on your own which will guide you to be a successful student.

·         Have a Fine Study Space

It is obvious that the space that you choose to study have a lot of say in your academic success. Online students can choose living room, office room, garden, balcony of their home etc as their study space. But make sure that the place is quiet, distraction-free, and obtainable for use whenever you like to study. The students’ environment is very important when it comes to online learning. Therefore, confirm that the study space you choose enables you to follow your study routine effectively.

·         Have Regular, Yet Shorter Study Periods

Generally, students have a tendency to study at the last moment. But it will be a very bad decision when you are an online student. Successful students usually arrange their studies over shorter periods of time. They hardly ever aspire to keep studies to the last minute. If you would like to become a successful student, you need to learn to be constant in your studies. If you are an online student have regular, yet shorter, study periods to make academic success.

Online courses are a convenient and handy means to attend a course that you might otherwise not be able to attend on campus. Online students require being self-sufficient and taking responsibility for their learning more than traditional students. Students that are enthusiastic about online learning should have the following features:

·         Time Management.

·         Study Skills.

·         Goal Setting.

·         Motivation.

·         Learning Preferences.

·         Technology Skills.

Author Bio:

Glenda Kaplan is a well known writer, in an online professional resume writing service. He is always advising the students to buy professional resumes through online which will give new ideas for the students about professional resume writing.

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Message from one of our partner organisations - MCODE [Uganda]

Behind the growth of every young organization, there must be a well-wishing and supporting group of people or organization and in the tremendous growth of Mission for Community Development (MCODE) in Uganda, there was “Educate the World” formerly known as Primary Education for All in the UK.

MCODE was not known, not well established and with very little resources by the time Educate the World accepted to support it. Since the beginning of this partnership between Educate the World and MCODE, a lot has changed;

Dean Brockway together with his team designed and up to date still host MCODE’s website which has made a very big impact in keeping our supporters and all stakeholders updated and making other donors attracted to support MCODE. Dean and the entire team of Educate the World did not only support MCODE with the website but went further to provide consultancy services in relation to a number of funding applications.

The entire MCODE team is truly grateful for the continued support by Educate the World which has made MCODE a fast growing NGO in our area, they have further committed to work with MCODE to support the education of some of the most vulnerable children who would otherwise not have the chance to have an education, thank you Dean and your entire team!!!

Yours; Eng. Deo Lubanga Kayondo – founder and Executive Director of Mission for Community Development (MCODE).