Lecture


 * Link to Teacher-Centered approaches**

2. **Establish objectives** for the class and ensure that your lecture meets them. Present the objectives to your students at the beginning of the lecture. 3. **Organize the material** appropriately so that your students can understand it clearly. Chronological order may be the best way, but consider alternative approaches: Comparison and Contrast; Cause and Effect; Inductive; Deductive. 4. **Make eye contact** with your students; move around if you can; use gestures. Don't just stand there reading notes! 5. **Make sure** that everyone can hear and understand your lecture: 6. **Enliven your lecture** with concrete examples, personal anecdotes, or references to today's news. 7. **Capture interest** at the beginning of the lecture with a question, a powerful or popular quotation, or a dramatic or startling statistic. 8. **Build suspense** into your presentation as a way to maintain class attention, within the context of information flow. If at all possible, save the main point until the evidence has accumulated, giving others an opportunity to deduce the conclusion before it is revealed. 9. **Vary teaching methods**. Don't lecture for the entire class time. Twenty or thirty minutes is the maximum attention span you can expect from your students--**15 minutes is optimal for the length of a lecture segment**. 10. **Summarize the main points** at the end of every major section of your lecture. 11. **Summarize the entire lecture**, reinforce and repeat the points you want to emphasize
 * 1. Plan the lecture** in advance.
 * Use vocabulary which all the students will understand.
 * Define complex terms.
 * Avoid jargon.
 * Don't talk too fast.
 * Write difficult words or concepts on the board.
 * Use overhead transparencies to outline and clarify your lecture.
 * Break at that point to pose a question to stimulate student interest.
 * Ask your students to turn to their neighbours and solve a problem.
 * Invite questions from the class.
 * Ask your students to write a one-minute paper on "The three advantages of . . . " or "The importance of . . . "
 * Invite the class to make up exam questions on the material you have just covered.