ideas for efffective lectures
any ideas?
Mine is mostley visiule and some lecture and book but little book since I can not do the reading for them. I do not think if you read from the book to the students it will help them. They have to read on there own.
I like to lecture with visual aids and examples so that my students are engaged (hopefully) both in what I'm saying and what they are seeing. Combine that with lots of questions and audience interaction and lectures become less me talking and a more rounded class.
Hi Lisa,
Thanks for sharing this Pyramid with us. It really illustrates that we need to get the students totally involved in the learning process if we are going to be able to keep them engaged and retaining the content we are sharing with them.
Gary
Hi Jeff,
Will be glad to provide you with some ideas about developing effective lectures if you can provide me with some information about your course subject and content.
Thanks.
Gary
I find lectures to be pretty ineffective in comparison to the other methods discussed. I've got a Learning Pyramid that shows the learning retention rates of various kinds of instructional methods. They are:
Lecture 5%
Reading 10%
Audio visual 20%
Demonstration 30%
Discussion 50%
Practice by doing 75%
Teaching others 90%
To that end I'll do a short lecture/demo, followed by group work so they can start practicing what I've showed them, and finish it with each group showing the rest of the class how to do their particular group assignment. It incorporates different activities and keeps them from becoming disengaged by mixing up the methods.
The best way for most of my lectures is when I see students do not understand how a problem ,is to work the next class time we have I will have them build the problem ,do the math, then take a tester and see if the tester will give them the same or close to the same reading as the math is.
