Dynamic Lecturing: Research-Based Strategies to Enhance Lecture Effectiveness (The Excellent Teacher Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (586 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1620366177 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-12-27 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Dynamic Lecturing could not come at a better time. It demonstrates how lectures can be incorporated into an effective instructional sequence and seamlessly integrated with student questioning, student writing, small-group work, educational technology, and student assessment. Harrington and Zakrajsek have put together an array of lecture techniques and strategies (supported by evidence-based research), and as such, they demonstrate how we can use lectures as an effective teaching tool for moving our students to be more interested in their own learning. Hallelujah that Christine and Todd had both the expertise and motivation to give us this wonderful new resource.” (José Antonio Bowen, President Goucher College)"The authors of this book reorient and reintroduce readers to lecturing by providing best practices built upon the research regarding learning. (Joseph B. If you have limited time and too many students (and you do) then you could hardl
Watch Todd's TED Talk here.José Antonio Bowen . in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Ohio University. Dr. Harrington was a Professor of Psychology at Middlesex County College where she also served as the director of the Center for the Enrichment of Learning and Teaching, the faculty development center for five years. She is the author of Student Success in College: Doing What
They offer readers the lecture planning and evaluation tools for reworking their lectures in ways that provide high-level engagement and achievement for their students. They open each chapter with the evidence behind each lecturing strategy they describe, and conclude with practical suggestions for quick application in the classroom. The strategies are succinct, easy to incorporate into lectures and, done well, will have immediate impact and increase student mastery of course content.. It fills the void in professional development resources on how to lecture, validating the practice when it’s aligned with the educational mission of creating engaged learning environments.Christine Harrington and Todd Zakrajsek demonstrate that, rather than lecture and active learning being mutually exclusive or either-or propositions, the effectiveness of the former can be greatly enhanced when combined with active learning techniques through what they define as dynamic lecturing; and provide context about the need to balance these approaches to meet the needs of students as they progress from novice to advanced learners