 | Preventing Death By Lecture! - Terrific Tips For Turning Listeners Into Learners |
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #520619 in Books
- Published on: 2001-11-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .1 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
Review
As a result of applying Sharon's suggestions, we have now made her insightful book a part of our curriculum. -- Vicki Correa, Customer Service Manager, WorkNet Training and Publications
Rich with terrific tips for delivering any kind of speech, presentation, class, or training! -- Laura Moriarty, Vice President of HR and Training, Booth Creek Ski Holdings, Inc.
From the Publisher
The newest title in our Terrific Tips Collection of easy-to-use, high-energy books that give you great tips you can use immediately in your personal and professional life. If you want to be successful at teaching, training, parenting, communicating, public speaking, or presenting information to others, our books will help you do just that.
From the Author
"I have too much to teach and too little time to teach it. I don't have time for fun and games." Ever heard those words? Ever feel that way as you try to cram all you know about your subject in a short amount of lecture time?
"Preventing Death by Lecture" will help you keep your lectures interesting and your listeners alive. By using your choice of many of the terrific tips described in the book, you'll be creating learning experiences that go beyond straight lecture - and into the minds and hearts of your learners.
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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
A slim volume with some excellent ideas!
By B. Wood
Teachers take note: the time of giving straight lectures and expecting your students to "get it" is over! This slim volume from Sharon Bowman will give you the strategies that you need to avoid this situation.
I teach in senior secondary classes. One of the biggest concerns with these groups is the never ending need to "cover the material" - the external exam is looming, and we need to get through it! As a result, it is easy to fall into the trap of lecturing for 40-50 minutes, and just hoping that they will remember enough to get through.
Of course, they won't. And it is not fair to expect that they could! Try listening to someone speak for that length of time and see how much YOU can remember!
So how do we overcome the problem? Ms Bowman suggests that traditional lectures are still necessary in some instances, and she provides a list of reasons that may encourage us to use this format. The bulk of the book is used to show us how to make this time more meaningful for our students. The end result is that you can still cover the material (phew!), but now you are more likely to create a learning situation in which the material will be able to be recalled and understood by your learners.
The strategies listed are a bit mixed - perhaps some are suited to a younger audience than I teach. For example, I can't imagine working with the "Tie A Yellow Ribbon" strategy from page 33. However, there is enough here to make your purchase worthwhile - I have already used the "Shout Out!" strategy from page 49 with great success, and others have been quickly integrated into my teaching practice as well.
A book filled with easy to implement strategies. And it seems certain to me that every teacher will find at least a few that they will use.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Preventing Death By Lecutre
By Margaret C. Nelson
This is indeed a great resource for "Terrific Tips For Turning Listeners Into Learners!" I teach a "Lecture" format class in a college and need ways for students to learn the material, not just hear about it. The ideas in the book are easy to understand and implement into even a large lecture hall!
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful.excellent and fun
By Dana Carver
I had fun reading the book and will refer to it often when creating new presentations.
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