advice for lecturers

Sometimes Faculty Developers get a bad rap for being anti-lecture.  I am not against all lecturing; I am against boring lectures!  This blog has some well written and wise advice for making presentations.  And really, aren’t lectures presentations?  I hear echoes in this list of advice from one of UR’s great professors–Joe Hoyle

Still, the rubber hits the road when students get to enter into the discussion and try out new ideas.  We should try to make space in our classrooms for this.  And when we lecture, it should be interesting and engaging in its own right so that students are motivated to try the hard work of applying ideas.  Maybe we should do a PETE lunch on “Lectures that Kill” and look at lectuers that “kill” in the good sense, and lectures that kill in a bad way…