How Can We Use the Lecture Format to Improve Student Learning?
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How Can We Use the Lecture Format to Improve Student Learning?
Quiz Questions
• Which answers support lecturing as an effective teaching technique?
Evidence for Lecturing
• 1. Control• 2. Saves time• 3. Supplement text, new information• 4. Invites engagement through enthusiasm• 5. Transmits information • 9. Effective organization promotes learning
What about Questions 6,7,8?
• Less effective in promoting thought• Less effective in changing attitudes• Relatively ineffective in inspiring interest
Questions 10 and 11
• Students need to construct own interpretation of new information
• The act of using information, manipulating it, enhances ability to recall/use in future
The Way the Brain Works
• Short term memory – Limited and requires more effort
The Way the Brain Works
• Short term memory – Limited and requires more effort
• Longer term storage – Store new information with similar – Need to understand new information first
The Way the Brain Works
• Short term memory – Limited and requires more effort
• Longer term storage – Store new information with similar – Need to understand new information first
• Neural pathways get stronger with use– Better retention and access
Note Taking
• Many students lack the ability to take good notes– Students typically get 20-40% of main points
• Partly lack of experience– Can teach
Hard to remember things that don’t make sense to us
• TTNZAKGM
More Familiar? Easier -
• KJCSBSJU
If Lecture Sounds like TTNZAKGM
• Give up, tune out
• Try to copy everything
• Don’t understand enough to ask a meaningful question
Question 13
• Attention/absorption declines after 15 minutes– And even earlier with new material
• 50 minute class– Student notes for last 15 minutes have half the
content of the notes for first 15 minutes
Solutions
• What techniques work to help to hold student attention?
Ken’s list for holding attention
• Enthusiasm• Use voice• Eye contact• Accessible language• Examples
Solutions (2)
• What techniques work to help students take better notes?
Ken’s list for aiding note taking
• Rhetorical clues– Number points, Power Point or board
• Framing question• Handouts– Brief outline to Guided Notes
• Summaries• Invite questions– “What questions do you have?”
What are implications of Question 14?
• Students retain more when lectures contain less content and provide opportunities for active engagement
Parting Thoughts (1)
• Is your goal coverage or learning?
• Can’t do it all, so real issue is changing the balance
Parting Thoughts (2)
• Do what feels right for you
• Experiment in small increments
Today’s Presentation as Model
• Quiz as outline and key content• Quiz as means of engagement• Lecture– Power point as visual reinforcement
• Questions to generate engagement• Summary