Teacher Magazine: Teaching Secrets: How to Deliver Instruction That Sizzles

Really good set of tips for helping keep the students engaged in the classroom.  The article isn’t that long so give it a read!

• Teacher Magazine: Teaching Secrets: How to Deliver Instruction That Sizzles

  Great tips for effective lectures

  tags: education, lecture

  • the secret to effective lesson planning and instructional delivery. I call it: “the student perspective factor”—a teacher’s awareness of her students’ state-of-mind, individually and collectively, throughout the lesson.
  • Effective lessons incorporate meaningful objectives, procedures and assessments, and weave in standards and expectations.
  • How to Put Your Awareness to Work
  • Overplan
  • Make the topic come alive
  • Get personal
  • Connect to real life
  • Active engagement
  • Keep your “withitness” level set on high
  • Specific feedback
  • As I plan lessons, my written objectives answer three questions: What will students be learning? What will they be doing? How will I know when I have taught it and they have learned it?

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