Traditional Teaching/Learning Activities

While the Training and Professional Development streams courses emphasizes ‘active’ and participatory learning, we recognize that there are many times when traditional teaching/learning activities such as lecturing and asking/answer questions can and should be used. In addition to providing the theoretical background to make lectures and asking/answering questions more effective in the classroom, this course will focus on providing teachers with the skills to

• * Decide when and for what types of learning goals lecturing can be used
•    most appropriately to address

• * Take course lecture content and organize this material for greater efficiently
•    and impact

• * Select and use examples, demonstrations and other methods to make their 
•    lectures come alive for their students

• * Design and use small activities to enhance lecture content, to engage the
•    students in learning and applying the lectures main points and to keep 
•    students’ attention focused

• * Ask students questions and answer student questions on lecture content
•    more effectively