Eye contact
By using eye contact with the students it let the student know that you are intuned with them or letting them know you are watching them.
Cheryl,
and it can also help in reading whether the students are getting the information or if there is confusion.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
Eye contact is important to let a person know that you are listening.
Eye contact is important in lecture because:
- it shows your students that you are focused on them
- it forces the students to focus on you
- it show sincerity
- it makes the lecture more personal
I definitely believe eye contact is important. It makes the students aware that you are seeing if they understand or if they give you that face like what are you talking about. That way you can then slow down or explain in a different way. Since reading this lesson I have tried not to focus on one student to long and have tried to move around the room more often.
Jacqueline,
this is a good awareness & a good strategy. We also need to be careful about gravitating to the "good" listeners. We all have students who are more receptive in their nonverbals & so we tend to zero in on those folks. Like you said, moving around & focusing on different parts of the room will help.
Ryan Meers, Ph.D.
I believe that making eye contact is important, the module states that it must be 2-3 seconds. I know that sometime I focus on one area maybe to the right of the room and have to be careful to lecture to both sides of the room. Sometimes it works out that one student is in your eye site when lecturing so I make sure I roam about the room and make sure to make my whole classroom is used.
