Effective Lectures

Teaching from objectives

Learning Goals

Learning / Teaching Activities

Feedback & Assessment

Constructive Alignment

Teaching from objectives

Learning Goals

Learning / Teaching Activities

Feedback & Assessment

CREATING EFFECTIVE PRESENTATIONS TEMPLATE

BEGINNING THE PRESENTATION:

What would you like the students tobe able to do by the end of your presentation? (Short-term objective):

Share objective/goal (including how & why it's important)

Attention-getter (Overview, anecdote, question, pose problem/case study, demonstration, quotation, relevant fact/statistic):

DELIVERING THE PRESENTATION:

First chunk of information---Main points covered:

Pause activity:

Second chunk of information---Main points covered:

Pause activity:

Third chunk of information---Main points covered:

Pause activity:

ENDING YOUR PRESENTATION

Wrap-Up: How will you know students have accomplished/mastered what you intended?

Example of an objective

1. Learn the Archimedes Principle.

2. Use the Archimedes Principle to determine the volume of an irregularly shaped object.

Example of an objective

1. Understand the complex ethical issues involved in human cloning.

2. List arguments for and against human cloning.

Associate Justice Potter Stewart

Well, obscenity is hard to define….

…but I know it when I see it.

If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you know when

you get there?

Activity

1. Develop an objective for a class you will teach in the future and write it down on your presentation template.

2. Share your objective with your partner to determine if it is clear how that objective could be met.

Use of pauses

Why use pauses?

• Pauses break up the lecture allowing you to recapture students’ attention.

• Pauses allow students to reflect on what they have just learned.

• Pauses allow you to center yourself.

Using the Pause Procedure to Enhance Lecture RecallKathy L. Ruhl, Charles A. Hughes, Patrick J. SchlossTeacher Education and Special Education, 1987, 10 (1), 14 – 18.

Instructor 1

Course 1

Instructor 2

Course 2

Three 2-minute pauses for note sharing per lecture

No pauses No pausesThree 2-minute pauses for note sharing per lecture

Students take a common exam

Mean exam scores (% out of 100)

Lecture with pauses

Lecture with no pauses

Instructor 1

(Course 1)

89.4 80.9

Instructor 2

(Course 2)

80.4 72.6

Adapted from Ruhl, 1987

Book Ends on a Class Session

Karl Smith

What can you do during the pauses?

What can you do during the pauses?

• Activities that allow you to assess what students have learned.

• Activities that allow students to reflect on what they have just learned.

• Activities that allow you to center yourself.

A few pause activities

• Think-Pair-Share

• One-Minute Write

• Muddiest Point

• Sample Test Item

• One-sentence Summary

One sentence summary

• “Who does what to whom, when, where, how, and why?”

• Previous section on objectives:

• “To effectively focus planning activities before designing a class session, the instructor, in an environment conducive to productivity, develops objectives that describe what students must do.”

Applications of a one sentence summary

• Model creation of a one sentence summary.

• Have students work as groups to come up with a single summary.

• Have students write down their summaries – turn them in.

• Provide them with a template summary in need of revision, work as an entire group to “fix” it.

Application of a one sentence summary

• Compose a one sentence summary that outlines the benefits of introducing pauses into a lecture.

• “Who does what to whom, when, where, how, and why?”

Turn to your neighbor

• Think – Pair – Share

• Write – Pair – Share

• Ten-Two Strategy

• Note-check

Restate your main points in 2 – 3 different ways

• In the language of your discipline

• In layperson’s language

• With data (charts, graphs)

• With a diagram or model

• With a picture or quotation

OBJECTIVES

Restate your main points in 2 – 3 different ways

• In the language of your discipline

• In layperson’s language

• With data (charts, graphs)

• With a diagram or model

• With a picture or quotation

PAUSES

Summary

• Begin planning from objectives - what do you want your students to do?

• Introduce pauses into your presentations

• Restate the most important points in 2 or 3 different ways