Lecture Type
The instructor utilizes multiple "mini-lectures" typically no longer than 20 minutes in length, and engages students in brief content-related activities.
What is an Interactive Lecture?
Providing an outline or similar structure for students to fill in has improved student performance.
What is Guided Note-Taking? (pg. 12, Finding # 2)
The instructor creates bingo cards with terms from the upcoming lecture.
What is Lecture Bingo? (pg. 38-41)
"because a strong and powerful ending often stays clearly in the listeners' minds"
What is Closure? (pg. 7)
Across these classifications, lectures may be categorized in terms of ....
What is Student Interaction, Content Delivery, and Content Medium? (pg3)
Students retain 70% of the material from the first 10 minutes of a lecture but only 20% of the material from the end.
What is Attention Span? (pg. 10 - Finding #1)
Students are called on at random during a lecture.
What is Wake-Up Call? (pg 27-29)
What is effective content building? (pg. 6-7)
Typically follows a reading assignment and proposes a series of carefully sequenced questions to a single student.
What is a Socratic Lecture? (pg. 3)
When lecturing, it is easy to get caught up in interesting additional details or stories to share with students, but research suggests that doing so could diminish learning.
What is Focusing on Essentials? (pg. 12, Finding #3)
This technique helps instructors to encourage and gauge students' ability to monitor their own learning.
Models critical thinking and enthusiasm for the topic
What are the Advantages? (pg.9)
The instructor lectures while generating notes on a medium that students can see.
What is a Chalk and Talk Lecture? (pg. 5)
•Students who tested on a weekly basis performed significantly better on course examinations than those who experienced only midterms and finals.
What is Frequent Quizzing and Testing? (pg. 13, Finding #4)
This technique encourages active listening and critical thinking by engaging students in a game of "being the first to find an error".
What is Find the Flaw? (pg. 41-43)
'makes connections with other learning and provides a background from which the importance and relevance of the content can be supported"
What is Context? (pg.6)
A lecture that begins with a primary thesis or assertion and then proceeds to justify it.
What is an expository lecture? (pg. 4)
Students prefer "performance" lectures to "presentation" lectures - performance lectures increase student learning.
What is the Style and Pace of Speech? (pg 14-15, Finding #5)
This technique is centered on open-ended questions about a text that increases the complexity to force students to examine issues and principles.
What is a Socratic Seminar? (pg. 34-36)
Relies on Student attention span.
What are the Disadvantages? (pg. 9)