Speaker & Moderator Toolkit
Information for Seminar Discussion Leaders
What is a Seminar?
Seminars are discussion-based sessions in which presenters lead a small group of participants in a discussion about a defined topic. In order to facilitate an atmosphere that is conducive to discussion, the Seminars Subcommittee has generated a list of guidelines for presenters to follow:
- Do not plan your session around any piece of audio/visual equipment. Only a flipchart will be provided. At the start of your session, ask participants for questions they have about your topic. Write those questions down on the flipchart and use it as your agenda.
- Encourage participation by all. Do not let one participant do all the talking.
- Prepare a handout that lists references for the important literature in your session's topic.
- Participants can be contacted prior to the meeting to determine their learning needs so that the topics can be customized accordingly. Contact the Seminars Subcommittee staff liaison if you wish to contact the participants.
- If there is a co-presenter, be sure keep in communication with him or her prior to the session.
- Consider using relevant cases as a way to spark discussion.
As a speaker, you are responsible for…
Development of a presentation appropriate to the specific topic identified. Your presentation should be designed for the target audience: clinicians, researchers, trainees/students and allied health professionals, and should contribute directly to the learning objective identified for your presentation. You are also responsible for providing balanced information that is free of commercial bias Attendance at the entire session. To help ensure that the session runs smoothly, your presence is required for its entire duration. We ask our speakers to arrive no later than 15 minutes prior to session starting time.
If you have further questions, please contact Mikelle Johnson at (414) 272-6071 or mjohnson@aaaai.org
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