lecturing well: integrating student participation into your lectures

Lecturing Well: Integrating Student Participation into your Lectures

Henricus de Alemannia lecturing to his students by Laurentius de Voltolina, (1350)

Disciplinary and Pedagogical literature

• Teaching centered – learning centered paradigm change

• Research on how people learn • Scholarship of teaching and learning• Engineering and science education

research • Curricular change in higher education• Educational technologies• Signature Pedagogies

Participant Outcomes

• By the end of this workshop you will have• Reflected on your use of lecture as a

teaching tool • Analyzed your current lecture method• Determined what changes you might

make to to enhance student learning• Begun to redesign a lecture

Agenda

1. What is lecture best for?

2. What makes an effective lecture?

3. Designing a lecture

4. Delivering a lecture

5. Wrap-up & Questions

Characteristics of great lecturers:

What do you see?

• http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/bonnie_bassler_on_how_bacteria_communicate.html

Reasons for lecturing (Think/Pair/Share)

Attention Span

http://www.monash.edu.au/lls/llonline/speaking/presentations/preparing/1.xml

Consider expert and novice perspectives when designing lecture

Heath, C. & Heath, D. (2007). Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.www.madetostick.com Svinicki, M. (2004). Learning and Motivation in the Postsecondary Classroom.

Long term memory and comprehension depends on the learner thinking about things

Environment

Working memory - site of awareness & thinking

Long Term Memory( illustration based on Willingham, D. (2009), p. 11.)

interactingdoing

seeing

listening

• http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/erin_mckean_redefines_the_dictionary.html

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVgfC_FV2hI&feature=channel (Brain)

Lecture Design - Example

Source: Karl Smith, University of Minnesota

Designing a Lecture

• Getting attention

• Goals, advance organizer, little picture/big picture

• Components of a lecture

• What are the main points (chunks)?

• attention span - where are pauses appropriate? What will those pauses accomplish?

Delivery

• Why is delivery important?• What do you need? (notes, AV, etc.)• How does context determine delivery?• Assess your “platform” skills• Intention, focus, practice • Feedback, Reflection and change

Using PowerPoint

• Keep the lights on• Move away from the podium• Slides should support your narrative, not

replicate it – use slides as visual aids• Less is more (less text, more graphics)• Other guidelines?

Micro-Teaching

Xenon headlights illuminate signs better than halogen headlights do

[Sylvania, 2008 ]

Xenon Headlight

Halogen Headlight

SilverStar Ultra TM

Standard Halogen

Xenon

Water from the jet engine’s exhaust creates contrails that float in the atmosphere

[Encyclopedia of Global Environmental Change, 2002]

In summary, assertion-evidence slides are more effective than the common practice of PowerPoint

[Hamaker, 2009]

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjCIRLwkl3k&feature=SeriesPlayList&p=9A701D54E8896D0E (Anatomy)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVgfC_FV2hI&feature=channel (Brain)

Resources for improving PowerPoints

• Teaching the Assertion-Evidence Design of presentation slides http://www.writing.engr.psu.edu/teaching_slide_design.html

• http://www.garrreynolds.com/Presentation/sample1.html

• http://www.garrreynolds.com/Presentation/pdf/presentation_tips.pdf

References• Jones-Waton, M. (2005) Teaching problem-solving skills without sacrificing

course content: Marrying traditional lecture and active learning in an organic chemistry class. Journal of College Science Teaching, Sept.

• Lang, J.M. (2006) Beyond lecturing. Chronicle of Higher Education. 53(6) pp. 69-69.

• Oblinger, D. & Oblinger, J. Eds. (2005). Educating the Net Generation. Educause.

• Puttee, C.M, & K.E. Mezzina (2008) In defense of the lecture: Strategies to assist in active learning experiences in accounting units. Journal of Business Education & Scholarship of Teaching 2(2) pp: 28-38.

• Roettger, C., Roettger, L. & Walugembe, F. (2007). Teaching: More than Just Lecturing. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice. http://jutlp.uow.edu.au/2007_v04_i02/pdf/roettger.pdf

• Willingham, D. (2009). Why don’t students like school: A cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for the classroom. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

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Questions?