Does your proposal indicate a coherent description of the session content and plan?
Be sure to give specific details about your session. In other words, there should be a clear link between what you plan to say and how you plan to support it during the session to achieve your session goals and objectives.
For practice- or pedagogy-oriented sessions
- Did you present a clear description of the teaching tasks, strategies, and/or technique(s) to be introduced in the session?
- Did you show how the tasks or techniques address the teaching gap, need, or goal?
- Did you outline the different sections of your session — and how they are sequenced?
For research-oriented sessions
- Did you present a clear description of your research design (e.g., research questions, participants, data collection, and analysis procedures)?
- Is there a close link between your research design and your research questions?
- Did you clearly indicate the overall findings of your research?
- Did you outline the different sections of your session — and how they are sequenced?
For conceptually-oriented sessions
- Did you present an argument that synthesizes existing practice, theory, and/or research?
- Did you present a novel interpretation of a theoretical perspective, claim, or idea? In other words, does your argument go beyond restating others’ ideas to presenting original interpretations, reinterpretations, insights, or applications?
- Did you outline the different sections of your session — and how they are sequenced?
For policy-oriented sessions
- Did you present a clear description and assessment of the policy under scrutiny?
- Did you present a clear description of the method, evidence, and justification for action?
- Did you present a discussion with suggestions for a call to action or reform of the results of action you are proposing (if any)?
- Did you outline the different sections of your session — and how they are sequenced?