Tips on Delivering a Great Lecture

William Germano, vice president and publishing director at Routledge, gives some useful tips on how to deliver a great lecture.  He's aiming these at academics presenting at conferences but the same techniques work in the classroom.  As he notes, "It's a peculiarity of scholarly life that everyone is expected to be able to deliver a lecture well, but almost no one is trained to do it. Academe resists the idea that the teacher is a performer, but the classroom and lecture hall prove that, like it or not, you need performance skills to get your ideas across."

Comments

[Michael Wagner]

I have often wondered why the academy "resists the idea that the teacher is a performer" but never put it quite that way during my long hours in a classroom.

I just wondered why many professors didn't seem to believe they were teaching anything worth improving their teaching skills over.

Great post, great resource.

I hope many faculty members are discovering Ask-Dr-Kirk!