SocProf reviewed Dynamic Lecturing by Todd Zakrajsek
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5 stars
Get this book in the hands of brand new teaching faculty and even more seasoned ones. I know "active learning" is all the rage again the supposedly old, and stuffy, and hierarchical lecture. This book is a welcome antidote. Solidly grounded on research in the SOTL, the authors that the lecture can be a very powerful, efficient, and effective learning tool. The vilifying of the lecture is based on a stereotypical and homogeneous view of what lecture is. There are different types of lectures, appropriate for different contexts. And there are good and bad ways of lecturing, just like active learning, in and of itself, does not guarantee quality and learning.
So, leaving behind the stereotypical view of lecturing, the authors offer multiple strategies, with worksheets and checklists, as well as additional research sources, to make the best of the lecture format. After all, as the authors note, for all …
Get this book in the hands of brand new teaching faculty and even more seasoned ones. I know "active learning" is all the rage again the supposedly old, and stuffy, and hierarchical lecture. This book is a welcome antidote. Solidly grounded on research in the SOTL, the authors that the lecture can be a very powerful, efficient, and effective learning tool. The vilifying of the lecture is based on a stereotypical and homogeneous view of what lecture is. There are different types of lectures, appropriate for different contexts. And there are good and bad ways of lecturing, just like active learning, in and of itself, does not guarantee quality and learning.
So, leaving behind the stereotypical view of lecturing, the authors offer multiple strategies, with worksheets and checklists, as well as additional research sources, to make the best of the lecture format. After all, as the authors note, for all the talk of active learning, the majority of college classes are set up as lectures, students expect it that way, and most faculty do lecture, at least in part. And yet, there is hardly any professional development offered dedicated to good lecturing. This book remedies this. And as the authors also show, the lecture may very well be the best teaching strategies for beginners in a field (undergrad and novices of all sorts), so, we need more research-based professional development on this. Start with this book.