Lecture Formats
I mostly teach math based courses such as quantitative methods and statistics. Lectures for these courses can be very dry. I try to break them into short segments and then go on to some other activity such as a hands on problem solving exercise. We use Excel as the problem solving tool. After lecturing on the content, I will have the class switch over to Excel and I can walk them through the steps necessary to solve the problem. During this phase, I make it a point to move around the classroom so that I can interact with individual students.
the more variety the better.
