Pre-Lecture Choose those items you would like to address while you PREPARE your lecture:
Summarize the Major points you want your students to walk away with
at the conclusion of your lecture.
Think of the steps you have taken to maintain and improve
your subject matter competence. How could you improve this for your next
lecture?
Provide a clear outline of your future lecture:
Explain your philosophy of learning
What are three things you feel you need to improve on.
What are three things you are doing very well during your lectures and
feel you should keep doing?
Explain how you will have the students demonstrate understanding by
applying some of the concepts you plan to present in your lecture?
What are four ways you will be attempting to engage your student’s
intellectual curiousity?
In a perfect world, how would students ‘really learn’ or perform
deep learning on the subject you just lectured about?
How do you feel your students in this class learn best?
What does good teaching mean to you?
Identify how your philosophy of learning ties into the teaching strategies
you used in your lecture.
Post Lecture Choose those items you would like to think about AFTER your lecture:
Is there anything in particular you would like to note about this lecture?
What did you feel the students liked about the lecture you just gave?
What did you like about the lecture (List at least three points)?
What did the students dislike about your lecture?
What did you dislike about the lecture?
What questions do you have now that the lecture is over?
If your students were the instructor for this lecture, what would they
do differently?
Identify the steps you took to prepare this lecture. Are there things
you would have done differently now that it is over?
Talk about the “hook” or how you introduced your topic today
as well as how you concluded it.
Explain how your lecture was organized. If a colleague or fellow student
was to look at one of your students’ notes from today’s lecture,
would the notes show the same organization?
At what point in your lecture did you feel the students were the most
dis-engaged from your content? What were the indicators of this for you?
Upon reflection, what could you have done at that point or overall
to prevent the disengagement?
What indications do you have that the class understood your lecture?
When were students most engaged in your lecture? How do you know? What
were the indicators?
When were students least engaged in your lecture? How do you know?
What were the indicators?
Did you achieve your learning goal? What other learning went on, if
any?
What are three things you are doing very well during your lectures
and feel you should keep doing?
What are three things you feel you need to improve on?
Verbal Think about your verbal delivery of the content within your lecture....
Think about the mode of your delivery - Did you present with expression? modulation?
Think about pace and clarity. Were your words clear and was the pace satisfactory?
Think about WHAT you said - did you use stories to emphasize points?
did you use humour?
Auditory Think about the aural part of the lecture...
Do you believe everyone was able to hear you at all times?
Did you always face the audience when you were speaking?
Was the audio of your support materials sufficient?
When the students spoke did you ensure everyone could hear
them or did you repeat their questions?
Visual Think about the visual part of your lecture...
Rate your appearance during the lecture - were you fidgeting or presenting
from a place where not all students could see you?
What about the visual organization of your lecture - was the lecture
organized through visuals as well as through what you said?
Rate the visuals used in your lecture.
Cognitive Think about how you engaged your students intellectually in your lecture.
What do you feel was the muddiest part of your lecture today?
What can you do next class to clear up any confusion from today's lecture?
What types of questions did you use the most during the lecture?
How was new information presented?
How did you link previous knowledge with new information?
Physical Think
about the physical space you where you presented your lecture....
Was the temperature, lighting, sufficient?
Were there enough chairs/desks for the students and were they organized
in such a way as to provide optimum learning?
Was all the equipment you needed for your lecture provided and working
properly?
Were there any management issues concerning cell phones, computers,
personal audio devices, etc. ?
