{"id":52,"date":"2009-02-20T07:22:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T12:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/?p=52"},"modified":"2020-02-11T20:44:38","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T01:44:38","slug":"lecture-planning-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/teaching\/2009\/02\/20\/lecture-planning-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"lecture planning techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by tastygoldfish on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7653270@N08\/1455916240\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1141\/1455916240_8a6c38a55b_t.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Book stack\" width=\"60\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>These resources for planning successful and effective lectures come from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umn.edu\">University of Minnesota<\/a>&#8216;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.umn.edu\/ohr\/teachlearn\/index.html\">Center for Teaching and Learning<\/a><\/strong>, a free source of great information about undergraduate instruction available to those within and beyond the University. They offer a number of resources on &#8216;Designing Smart Lectures,&#8217; but today we&#8217;ll focus on lecture planning and delivery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>3 important things to keep in mind when planning for the lecture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Articulate the goals for every lecture to yourself, and plan to share those goals with your students at the beginning of your presentation<\/li>\n<li>Determine which key points can be effectively developed during the class session<\/li>\n<li>Develop an introduction, body, and conclusion to your lecture to meet those goals and to help your students follow your thoughts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Specific tips on lecture organization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stick to 3-4 main points in a 50-minute period<\/li>\n<li>Vary your format of presenting every 15 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Organize material in logical order:<em><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Cause-Effect: Events are cited and explained (i.e., one can demonstrate how the continental revolutionary movements of the late 1700&#8217;s affected British politics at the turn of the century).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Time sequential: Lecture ideas are arranged chronologically (i.e., a lecturer explaining the steps in a clinical supervision model, talks about the first step to be undertaken, the second step, and so forth).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Topical (Compare and Contrast): Related elements of various selected topics are focused on successively (i.e., a professor lecturing about etiologies, typical histories, and predisposing factors of various diseases).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Problem-solution: The statement of a problem is followed by alternate solutions (i.e., a lecture on the Cuban missile crisis could begin with a statement of the foreign policy problem followed by a presentation of the alternative solutions available to President<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Pro-Con: A two-sided discussion of agiven topic is presented (i.e., the lecture is organized around the advantages and disadvantages of using the lecture method of instruction)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Ascending-Descending: Lecture topics are arranged according to their importance familiarity, or complexity (i.e., in a lecture introducing students to animal diseases, the diseases of primary importance could be discussed first, the tertiary\/less important ones last)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These resources for planning successful and effective lectures come from the University of Minnesota&#8216;s Center for Teaching and Learning, a free source of great information about undergraduate instruction available to those within and beyond the University. 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