Livening Up Your Lectures
 The lecture, or at least the mini-lecture, is still a staple teaching strategy for many professors. If you still use the lecture strategy, here are some tips to help you structure and deliver dynamic, and interactive lectures. If you have any tips of your own, we'd love to get them... just send us an email.
Preparing and Structuring Lecture Notes from the Centre Excellence in Teaching at the University of Southern California, provides concise and valuable answers to these three questions:
- How to I structure a lecture?
- How do I encourage feedback from my students?
- How do I engage my audience?
http://www.usc.edu/programs/cet/private/pdfs/teaching_nuggets/
lecture_notes.PDF
Twenty Tips for Making Lectures more Participatory from the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning at Harvard University is also worth your exploration.
http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/html/icb.topic58474/TFTlectures.html
Effective Lectures Information Sheet: Classroom Teaching Behaviors that Correlate with Student Ratings and Student Learning is another valuable document from the Focus on Learning Program. It identifies effective presentation, pacing, clarity, and participation tips, as well as useful phrases to use in lectures. html version
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