After a curriculum rewrite of my program, management has been encouraging us to implement more student involvement into our lectures. Although we have active learning in lab as the majority of our students learning, the first day of the week is usually all lecture. By periodically turning off the PPT and getting up in the classroom during that first day to take a look at and discuss the subject just covered in the lecture /PPT, I have drastically improved student engagement and made an improvement in student knowledge retention as well.
