Designing Slides for Teaching

Learn practical strategies for designing teaching slides that are clearer, more visual and easier for your students to understand.


A practical guide to designing more engaging teaching slides

 

Who is this for?

This course is for teachers, lecturers, professional trainers and educators who use presentation slides to support their teaching.

You will learn...

  1. The relationship between the educator, the slides and the students
  2. How visual impact can help improve student attention and engagement
  3. How to turn wordy teaching slides into clearer visual messages
  4. How to use S.P.Y. strategies to simplify complex information
  5. How to present text, numbers, charts and images more effectively
  6. How to use the S.P.Y. Design Ideas Toolkit to speed up your slide design
  7. How to adapt your slides for online and virtual teaching

Slides Are for Teaching — Not Reading

Your slides don't need to show everything at once. They should help students focus on what you are explaining.

Good teaching slides support what you are explaining. They help students focus on the key message, understand complex information and follow your lesson more easily.

Learn how to reduce unnecessary text, create clearer visual messages and design slides that work together with you as the educator — rather than becoming lecture notes projected onto a screen.

Lasting Impressions for your students

Practical strategies for clearer, more engaging teaching slides.

Learning outcomes

  • Design clearer and more engaging teaching slides
  • Turn wordy or complex information into simpler visual messages
  • Use text, numbers, charts and images more effectively
  • Apply S.P.Y. strategies to support student understanding and engagement
  • Adapt presentation slides for classroom and online teaching

Requirements

  • No specialist design experience required
  • Basic familiarity with PowerPoint, Keynote or similar presentation software
  • An interest in exploring more visual approaches to teaching slides

Frequently asked question

No. The course is suitable for all levels and does not require specialist design experience. The strategies are practical and can be applied using presentation software you already use.

No. It is designed for teachers, lecturers, professional trainers and other educators who use presentation slides to support learning.

Yes. You can use the strategies to improve slides you already have or apply them when creating new teaching materials.

Yes. The course includes strategies for designing slides for an online audience, as well as principles that can be applied to both classroom and virtual teaching.

Yes. The S.P.Y. Design Ideas Starter Toolkit is included with the course as a downloadable resource, giving you ready-to-use design ideas that you can customise for your own teaching slides.

Tian Teck Ang

Ang Tian Teck is a presentation coach and master trainer at Sticky SPY, a dynamic individual who has helped companies make a difference in their visual communications and presentations. He has coached many individuals and organizations to communicate confidently, get noticed, and attract opportunities through high-impact presentations.Tian Teck has more than 20 years of extensive experience in marketing, IT, and communication design, and he has developed a concept that significantly enhances today’s presentation methods. His Amazing Sticky Presentations® approach has benefited many clients in delivering a uniquely different experience to their audiences.Tian Teck is also the founder and owner of Sticky SPY and S.P.Y. Academy online school, a presentation design business whose clients include both local SMEs and multinational organizations. He traveled extensively in the region to conduct his Amazing Sticky Presentations® workshops.Since the pandemic, Tian Teck has redesigned his workshops for virtual delivery over Zoom (and other virtual meeting platforms).Tian Teck authored two books — Sticky Presentations, a uniquely different experience in presentation design and delivery, and Spinning I.D.E.A.S., exciting visual design ideas for business presentations. His books are sold in local bookstores in Singapore and Thailand.He relaunched his first book on Amazon Kindle and received the #1 Amazon Bestseller in the first week of the launch.

$97

Lectures

19

Skill level

All levels

Expiry period

Lifetime

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