More Than Lecturing

Lecturing is not simply a matter of standing in front of a class and reciting what you know. The classroom lecture is a special form of communication in which voice, gesture, movement, facial expression, and eye contact can either complement or detract from the content.

Claire Major discusses her approach to interactive lectures, which exists along a continuum of active learning with three easy-to-remember touchpoints: bookends, overlays, and interleaves.

Grounded in theories of learning and motivation and the science of learning, this book is filled with tips and techniques for ways to actively engage students during lecture.

Faculty members can make them even more effective, Marion Menzin and Zachary Nowak advise, by increasing the involvement of the other professional teachers in the classroom: the teaching assistants.