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Designing and Implementing Effective Lectures
Improving Your LecturingThese pages represent neither a recipe booklet nor a text for teaching. Rather they address a series of topics thought to be important for all who wish to seriously consider their lecturing skills. Links on this site include an extended discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of lecturing, strategies for improving lecture structures, notes on delivery, and assessment techniques (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
Improving Lecturing Skills: Some Insights from Speech Communication
A discussion of the primary strengths of effective lectures, including serving as a role model of good public communication skills; lecturers are reminded to keep clear goals in mind (Indiana University).
Delivering Effective Lectures
Efforts to improve the teaching of medical and other healthcare professionals must focus on changing the role of the student from passive observer to active participant. In this approach, the responsibility for meeting learning objectives is shared by the instructor and each student (Johns Hopkins).
Lecturing Effectively
Contrary to popular belief, lecturing is not the best method for imparting large amounts of information. This is a careful discussion of the uses of lecture, including a recommendation for using "microteaching" as a method for improving the lecturer's abilities (FSU).
Delivering a Lecture
Lecturing is not simply a matter of standing in front of a class and reciting what you know. The classroom lecture is a special form of communication in which voice, gesture, movement, facial expression, and eye contact can either complement or detract from the content (Barbara Gross Davis, University of California-Berkeley).
