INTERACTIVE
LECTURE
STATEGIES
Objectives:
• To identify the different learning styles
• To explore how interactive strategies support all learners
• To share practical ideas as whole class teaching
Interactive Learning
- Interactive approach to any
given lesson plan
encourages students to
interact with each other and
with the subject matter.
- A hands-on/real life
approach to education
founded upon building
student engagement
through guided social
interaction.
Learning Styles
Visual Learners- remember images, shapes and
colors.
Auditory Learners – remember voices, sounds
and music.
Kinesthetic – remember by doing, moving and
touching.
Dale’s Cone of Experience
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Interactive Teaching
- Involves facilitator and learners
- Encourage and expect learners to
participate
- Use questions to stimulate
discussion, emphasizing the value
of answers
- Give participants hands-on
experience
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attention
Where to Start?
- Start with clear learning
objective/outcomes
- Follow an outline and provide
copies to participants
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Increase Participation
Research Shows People will;
- Listen for only 15-20 minutes
without a break
- Learn more when given an
opportunity to process what
they are learning
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- Retain more if they review or
use the information
immediately after learning it
Lecturing
- It delivers a lot of
information in a short
amount of time
- Conveys information that
is difficult to present in
another way.
Points to keep in Mind
- Lowest retention value of all
teaching techniques
- Make more interactive by involving
the group by frequently stopping
and asking questions
- Strive for a 30% / 70%
- Split 30% lecture/ 70% active
discussion
Working in groups
- Work groups are the workhorse of
interactive teaching
- Work groups should be standard in
every class
Using work groups
- Stimulate individual output
- Leaners obtain feedback from multiple
perspectives
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- Offers opportunity for peer instruction
- Allows you to evaluate their learning
How to Utilize Work Groups
- Explain the procedure - Monitor progress
- Forms groups - Act as a timekeepers and
- Describe task answer questions
- Specify a time limit - Have groups report to
- Ask for scribes entire group
- Recommend a process - Process the information
Some General Structures of
Interactive Activities
- Give participants 1min. to
• Brainstorming
THINK
- it is typically performed in
- Have them PAIR and ask
group sessions.
them to SHARE
- Useful for generating
• Buzz Session
creative thoughts and ideas.
- Participants come together
in session groups that
• Think-pair-share
focus on a single topic.
- Pose a question or problem
• Incident Process
- Focus on learning how to solve real problem that
involve real people-- preparing students for life
beyond in classroom.
• Q&A Sessions
-Open-Ended Questions
Ask
Prepare
Questions
-Close-Ended Questions
Have
Work