PC 102 Professional Skills

Gathering Agenda for Week 05

Gathering Purpose
 To practice speaking in public, giving feedback, and acting in faith.
Preparation
Prepare the room for groups:
o For face-to-face Gatherings, arrive early to setup the room, prepare any visual aids, and greet
students as they arrive.
o For virtual Gatherings, start the meeting early, share your screen with a message welcoming
them to the gathering and letting them know you’ll start soon.
 When the Gathering Agenda asks that students meet in small groups, use Breakout
Rooms.
 When the Gathering Agenda asks you to display things on “the board,” you use the
whiteboard.
Min. Activities Teaching Tips
Welcome and Devotional
5 Welcome Welcome, announcements, and housekeeping.
Devotional Please sing one or two verses of a hymn. If you meet with a
virtual gathering, the lead student or another student
should be invited to share a brief spiritual thought. A
volunteer will then give an opening prayer.
Math Activity: Volume
10 Small Group Break up the class in to groups of 3-4 students to discuss Have groups work
Activity the math gathering activity for this week. Have the group together for 10 minutes.
work through the problem together. If someone in the If they finish the
group doesn’t understand something have the other group problem early, they can
members help them. discuss other math
concepts that people in
Math Problem their group need help
Assume you have a large mixing pot you use to mix with.
lemonade. It is the shape of a right circular cylinder.
Assume you can safely fill the pot 15 inches high without
spilling any lemonade. The diameter of the pot is 14.5
inches. How much lemonade can you mix in this pot? Your
answer will be in inches3.

Answer
If the diameter is 14.5 inches, then the radius is 7.25
inches. The formula for the volume of the lemonade is
πr2h. Substituting in the given values gives us
π(7.25)2(15)=788.4375π=2476.95 inches3.

Public Speaking Practice

5 Create a safe Explain that in today’s gathering everyone will be given the
environment opportunity to practice their “Me in 30 seconds” speech.
Almost everyone is going to feel anxious and maybe a bit
scared to do this activity.

Help create a safe environment by having a short

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 conversation about growth mindsets using the principles
from lesson 3 in PC 101. Acknowledge everyone’s feeling
scared but that you can use this experience to increase
your bonds of friendship has you work together to do
something hard.
Practice and Peer Review Activity
25 Me in 30 Divide the class up in to groups of 3 or 4 students and have Have groups spend
Seconds them take turns giving their Me in 30 Seconds. After about 3-5 minutes per
someone finished their speech have the other members person to give their Me
provide feedback by responding to the following in 30 Seconds and
questions. receive feedback.
1. Did they share what job he or she is looking for?
2. Did they share why he or she is good at it If some groups finish
(qualifications, examples)? early have them practice
3. Did they ask for help? How? their Me in 30 Seconds
4. Was it close to 30 seconds? using the feedback they
received.
Class Discussion
10 synthesize Bring the class back together and facilitate a discussion
about their experiences and why learning to be a
competent public speaker is important.

Consider the following discussion ideas:

 Why do you think the Church uses members to
give talks rather than a designated minister?
 How is networking, and public speaking an act of
faith?
 What skills from this week’s lesson do you plan to
use and why?
5 Testimony Bear a 30-90 second testimony and end with a prayer by
and Prayer invitation.