Let smiling be your default position. As a lecturer miles of smiles are important to develop rapport and ensure engagement. Smiling is the silent language of lecturing that can help transmit knowledge and engender trust. Smiling is important because it is contributes not just to our own mental health but feeds into the stability, happiness and mental health of our students.
Smiling is definitely one of the most spontaneous things a lecturer needs to do no matter how serious the topic. Time management, task management and productivity are all fundamental skills as you will have to juggle classroom time, preparation time, administration, research and your work-life balance.
One of the most valuable ways of organising yourself and your time is to use a simple decision-making tool called an Eisenhower Box. Dwight Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States and so was a busy man; to help himself get to grips with the tasks he faced he invented a matrix for prioritising.
He separated his tasks and decisions based on four possibilities according to their urgency and importance:. Use the matrix to help you as it provides a clear framework for making decisions over and over again and helps you remain cool and focused under pressure.
Your motivation is an essential component in enhancing classroom effectiveness and student performance. Motivated students are more excited to learn and participate. Being able to motivate yourself is an important skill that will help you be professional and be in control. Lecturers need to be very aware of impact that their level of motivation has on their students' motivation level. Intrinsic, altruistic and extrinsic motivations are major reasons accounting for the decision to become a lecturer.
The first five minutes of your lecture provides a golden opportunity to get your students to sit up and pay attention. Start with the obvious, introduce yourself, explain your objectives for the lecture and outline the learning outcomes. If you begin with great passion and enthusiasm, then your students are more likely to engage from the outset. Your introduction needs to engage, excite, challenge, and create expectations so add in some interesting facts in the beginning. Scan the room after the first few minutes to gain a good indication of how engaged the students are.
The pace should be well controlled so that you are able to move through the material, keeping students engaged throughout. The planning process is important, so you have to be fully confident about the content, structure and delivery of the material before you begin. With technology, lectures have revolutionised. Visual aids like educational videos that convey information in a powerful manner can be used to increase understanding and to develop interests.
Students also appreciate online materials that they can access outside of class, so remember to send these round after class via email.
Communication can take place in a number of different ways. However, lecturers should aim to facilitate the following instances of communication:. From this brief overview of three key characteristics and techniques of good lecturers, we can see that effective, constant communication between learners and lecturer is essential.
However, it is clear that there are a number of skills needed to become a good lecturer, and these skills need constant refining. Here are several TED Talks which talk about how to take your teaching to the next level and ensure you can get the most out of your learners:. Garr Reynolds.
Transition to Practice: Supporting Graduate Nurses. Look at your students, not at your papers or slides. Dim lights and monotone promote napping, so bring the lights up from time to time, and vary the pitch, vary the intensity of your voice. Teachers and students are partners in constructing a good classroom. Encourage students to ask questions. Pose questions, and allow time for students to come up with a response. To eliminate response-reluctance, use iClicker, the Institute-standard classroom response system.
All students have them. Contact Maureen Fodera at Another antidote to response-reluctance is to encourage raised hands with miniature candy bars as a prize.
Be creative; encourage students to hold up their end of the learning conversation. At the end of class, repeat the main ideas to take away from class—the do-not-forget collection. The final PowerPoint slide should be the list of main topics discussed that day.
Several short assessment methods can be helpful: main idea, muddiest point s , one question, KWL, Door Pass , etc.
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