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Resources for Preparing a TOK Presentation **Instructions: ** Use the below diagram to conceptualize your presentation. Additionally use the resources below to help you in the preparation of your presentation; structure, format, tips for success, etc...



Breaking the task down into stages (From TOK 2015 Guide from the IBO)
When preparing the TOK presentation, it is suggested that students should consider the following steps.

**Realizing the goal of the oral presentation**
The goal of the presentation is to allow students to apply TOK thinking to a substantive, real-life situation. Doing so invites students to draw stronger connections between the course and the world that they inhabit.

**Examining the assessment criteria**
Students should carefully examine the assessment requirements and identify the transitions from one level to the next.

Understanding the focus of the TOK presentation
The presentation, like the essay, is a discussion of knowledge. It is imperative therefore that the real-life situation which the student chooses to base their presentation on is substantive and allows for effective exploration of a knowledge question raised by that situation. It is this knowledge question that is the primary focus of the presentation.

**Choosing a real-life situation**
The selection of a good real-life situation is the most fundamental and important decision when planning the presentation. The real-life situation must lend itself to the formulation of an appropriate knowledge question that can be explored in depth and be applied to other real-life situations.

**Formulate a knowledge question**
It is common for students to make a good selection for their real-life situation but then to arrive at a very superficial knowledge question. Sometimes the question the student identifies is not even a knowledge question at all. TOK teachers should take every opportunity over the course of the programme to get students to identify and clearly articulate the knowledge questions they see in examples in TOK. If students have a strong background in unpacking examples they will be in a much better position to identify and explore a good knowledge question in the presentation. It is very important that there is a clear connection between the real-life situation and the knowledge question, and that students are able to clearly articulate that link.

**Exploring the knowledge question**
A good presentation will analyse different perspectives in relation to the knowledge question. This analysis necessarily involves the use of examples and reasoned arguments; not mere personal opinion.

**Connecting to other real-life situations**
It is crucial that students are made aware of the role that the exploration of the knowledge question plays in leading the presentation to more universal considerations of thinking. The TOK presentation provides students with an opportunity to focus on the thinking process as it applies in a number of contexts, emphasizing the need for the presentation to primarily focus on the knowledge question rather than the real-life situation. Students are required to show how the knowledge question which forms the basis of the presentation can be applied to other real-life questions (apart from the original real-life situation that triggered the presentation).

Tips for preparing the presentation
Teachers should give consideration to the following advice on TOK presentations.
 * A limit should be imposed on the amount of text used in PowerPoint presentations.
 * Teachers should provide students with strategies to overcome anxiety associated with public speaking.
 * Students should be provided with numerous opportunities to present in front of their peers prior to the TOK presentation.
 * Students need to be guided in working within the time allocated for the presentation.
 * Time should be set aside after each presentation for class discussion and peer feedback.
 * Filming and archiving presentations will provide exemplars for discussion.

What are Knowledge Questions

How to Structure a Presentation

TOK Presentation Checklist (For When You Think You Are Ready) = = __Sample Presentations from the IBO__ //Watch the below sample presentations in the DVD at the back of your Guide to TOK Assessment and see the comments from the Examiner Report to help you improve your presentation.//

1. Does modern science take responsibility for its moral and ethical implications?

2. Living in an international boarding house: How do we accommodate difference across cultural backgrounds?

3. Honor Killing: Nothing Honorable About it

4. Darwinism vs. Creationism

5. Human Trafficking: How does tainted knowledge affect human trafficking?

6. Death Penalty

7. The Use of Biofuels

8. Instincts

9. Can we be sure if a serial killer is made or born?