- Variation in your presentation: Gestures, facial expressions, movement to the board, demonstration, audio-visual aids and ICT.
- Look at the audience: make eye contact with your students.
- Use particular words or phrases like ‘this is worth noting’ and ‘remembering’, ‘enumerate’, ‘list’, ‘this is important for the test’ etc. Repeat keywords.
- Include the backbenchers in the last rows in your class.
- Learn from the theatre how to present (Visual aids and ICT) and how to deliver (eye contact, body language and movement).
- Teach students to make notes (let them compare notes, make summaries, show relationships etc.)
- Use possibilities of active learning: asking questions, the minute paper, students discuss in pairs or threesomes, using a clicker, relating with entry-level, giving assignments for homework.
- Explain learning objectives and test criteria. Give feedback to the students.
