Get Your Students Hired
Once the lecture has been planned, there are many techniques that can be used to ensure that students gain the maximum benifit. Get students to think, write and share their thinking with other students. Use of Multimedia to bring varitet to using different teaching methods.
Begin with a summary of last week's lecture and an oveview of this week's, establishing a clear link between the two.
I always note on the board what material we will cover that class period. I attempt to vary my delivery to ensure the maximum attention to the presented content. While I am much more comfortable with a story-telling mode of delivery, I am much more effective when I diversify.