Introduction

The lecture is a widely used method of teaching in further and higher education and indeed in many parts of the world staff are still called lecturers. Teaching staff coming to lecturing for the first time often find it a challenging and even frightening prospect. Just because one knows one's subject does not automatically mean that one will be good at putting it across to large groups. Yet many lecturers find themselves standing in front of their first large group, without ever having been trained in any way to stand and deliver! There is also the challenge to more experienced lecturers to find ways of coping with increasingly large numbers of students in our classes.

This does not just happen to lecturers. Library staff, support staff and research students are all likely to find that at least part of their work revolves round working with large groups of students, sometimes in lecture theatres, and sometimes in classrooms.

Resource Materials

• Notes on Lecturing
  Notes on lecturing specially written for Deliberations by Phil Race, Higher Education consultant. Phil originally hosted and developed the Deliberations pages on lecturing.
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