Strategies for Improving Comprehension of Lectures

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Strategies for Improving Comprehension of Lectures

• A Teaching Commons Brown Bag
• Center for Teaching, Learning Assessment
• January 20, 2006

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4 Strategies

• Emotions
• Relevancy
• Organization
• Work with the Knowledge

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Inspire an Emotional Reaction Laughter Anger
Curiosity Confusion

• Instructional Strategies include
• Storytelling
• Posing a confounding problem
• Demonstration
• Stunning statistics
• Jokes related to content

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Point Out the Relevancy

• Instructional Strategies include
• Identifying three main ideas or enduring
  understandings students will learn
• Today we will see how.
• Tie the lectures main ideas to the course goals
• Explain why the information in the lecture is
  important in the practical world

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Use Overarching Organizers

• Main ideas/enduring understandings
• Outlines
• Graphic organizers
• Descriptive Patterns or Concept Pattern
• Time Sequence Patterns
• Process/Cause-Effect Patterns
• Episode Patterns
• Generalization/Principle Patterns

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Descriptive Patterns or Concept Pattern
Culture
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Time Sequence Patterns
Event
Event
Event
Event
Event
Event
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Process/Cause-Effect Patterns
Effect
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Episode Patterns
Place
Duration
Time
Episode
Cause
Effect
Person
Person
Person
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Generalization/Principle Patterns
Generalization/Principle
Example
Example
Example
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Work with the Knowledge

• Instructional Strategy
• Talk 15 minutes, then break to engage students
• Pose a question, ask student to discuss it
  because you will randomly call on a student in
  three minutes
• Ask students to tell their neighbor
• Ask students to look back in the notes to
  determine whether they have X, Y or Z

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4 Strategies

• Emotions
• Relevancy
• Organization
• Work with the Knowledge