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Effective Strategies for Engaging Lectures: Tips for Engaging Students in Learning Process

Improve your lecturing skills with these tips: engage students by posing questions, use illustrations, focus on examples and problems, encourage discussion, and strike a balance between lectures and discussions.

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Effective Strategies for Engaging Lectures: Tips for Engaging Students in Learning Process

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  1. Tips on Active Lecturing Prepared by Mervin Maxwell

  2. Start lectures by stating a question to be addressed or a problem to be solved • Give illustrations of ever theoretical result you present both before and after you present it

  3. Put long derivations in handouts and go through them quickly in class Spend most class time on -Presenting examples -Working out problems -Asking and answering questions -Discussion

  4. Don’t lecture to the board. Don’t write on hand and erase with the other. Don’t read notes • Use transparencies for visual demonstrations, plots, diagrams, etc. Don’t use them for complete lectures. Classes are not symposia

  5. Don’t be afraid to say “I don’t know.” If you want to add “but I’ll find out.” Then do it! Better yet, ask the class what they think.

  6. Strike a balance between lectures and discussions. -Lectures lets you cover a lot of material rapidly, promote short-term knowledge. -Discussion lead to deeper understanding better attitude toward subject, more creativity.

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