Show the PP image and send the magazine around the group so they can touch/feel it. If I'm holding a revolver up that's about 8"x5" can the person sitting in the back of the room REALLY see it???
In my class, with 2-4 students tops, absolutely they CAN see it. An NRA Basic Pistol class taught with a small number of students in a small room is simply not the same as teaching something like software development in a class room with 30 students. You are conflating the two and they simply aren't the same.
So while you're walking to the back of the room what are the other 29 people in the class doing?
You don't teach Basic Pistol to 30 people.
Why show a picture of a gun when I have a gun in my hand? I don't point to a picture of a revolver and say "push this release forward to open the cylinder." I pick up the revolver and demonstrate it.
You guys doing the NRA classes - outstanding that you're doing this and I'm sure you know your SH with respect to the subject, but how much work have you put in to perfecting your presentation skills/presentation building ability?
Actually, quite a bit. My first experience teaching was in the academic world more than 20 years ago and I've taught in a number of different environments since then. I did take public speaking in college and got an A.
Here is a comment from one of my recent students:
simply cannot thank you enough for the time and attention that you gave me, and my friend H.
Simply put, you are a wonderful teacher, and a gracious and generous host.
Her friend, H., is a very experienced school teacher and H. stopped me to compliment me on what a good teacher I am. So, yes, I actually do know what I'm doing in the classroom.
Once again, I have to ask, when teaching a Basic Pistol class, what is it that you want to get across via PowerPoint?
You need something for the auditory learners (what you're saying), for the visual learners (this is your PP slides & practical demonstration) and for the kinesthetic learners (handling the guns, ammo etc).
I do have something for auditory learners -- what I'm saying. I do have something for visual learners -- handouts, maybe a poster or two, and the NRA Basic Pistol book that they were all required to read before the class. And I do have something for kinesthetic learners -- dry handling in the classroom and then actual range time.