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Teaching Strategies: Lectures and Large Classes


Eliciting participation, questions, and even attention from a sea of faces in a large lecture hall can be a difficult task. Instructors often seek ways to make large classes feel smaller. The links in this section provide information about classroom management techniques, suggestions for effective lecturing, and a list of additional resources and articles about large classes.

Large Classes

Suggestions for Large Classes
http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/suggestions/file212.html

Tips for Using Questions in Large Classes
http://www.biology.lsa.umich.edu/research/labs/klionsky/TP.pdf

Large Class Bibliography
http://www.schreyerinstitute.psu.edu/Tools/Large/

The "Change-Up" in Lectures
http://www.indiana.edu/~teaching/allabout/pubs/changeups.shtml

Large Classes: A Teaching Guide
http://www.cte.umd.edu/library/teachingLargeClass/guide/index.html

Lectures

Delivering Effective Lectures
http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/english/6read/6training/lecture/delivering_lecture.htm

Eight Steps to Active Lecturing
http://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/academics/center/Teaching_and_Learning_Tips/
Developing%20Effective%20Lectures/8stepstoactive.htm

Giving Effective Lectures
http://www.gvsu.edu/ftlc/index.cfm?id=9B076812-A2F7-4A09-D2401DCAB95E68F7

 

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