ABSTRACT

When you’ve looked through this chapter, and applied the most appropriate ideas it contains to your teaching, you should be better able to:

● gain confidence in preparing and delivering lectures; ● develop your work with large groups of students so that their learning is more productive in

your sessions; ● think consciously about how your students learn in lectures, and about ways you can address

the principal factors underpinning successful learning in your lectures; ● make good use of audio-visual aids when giving lectures, not least PowerPoint; ● use handout materials to help to structure students’ learning, both during and after lectures; ● choose from a variety of ways to get feedback on your lectures from your students; ● prepare your large-group teaching so that it will be seen to be successful when your teach-

ing is observed or reviewed.