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
Resources for Interactive Lecturing
http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/library/interactive/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