How can you accommodate diversity in a large group?
January 8, 2004
Video >> Wyn Morgan: “It’s a question of trying to find a balance between scaring the ones who’ve never done it before and not boring the ones who’ve got some experience with it. I think you have to remember what you’re trying to achieve in that particular class in terms of content or knowledge or whatever …
How do you keep your audience’s attention?
Video >> Mary: “I think this is a really important point. You said “how do you keep the audience’s attention for 50 minutes?”, I think you’ll be lucky if you keep them for about 10-12 minutes before people start to have microsleeps . They are lucky if they last that long. “I think it’s as much …
Gaining class attention in a lecture theatre
July 9, 2000
Video >> Low level noise as students talk in the lecture theatre. Prof Liz Sockett: “The best thing I ever learned on a teaching course was not to stand up and say ‘lets be quiet and make a start’. I just stand at the front and when they quieten down I start lecturing. They make …
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