The Interactive Lecture

Use this book to bring high-impact, research-based instructional practices into your classroom. This guide focuses on the Interactive Lecture, a strategy that increases students' abilities to think actively about the content of lectures and presentations so they can lock the critical information in their memories. This PLC guide enables you to: Learn how the techniques built into the Interactive Lecture help students actively process and remember critical information; Experience a model lesson using the Interactive Lecture and learn from sample lessons and planning forms; Plan a complete Interactive Lecture for your classroom; Examine student work at various levels and use your findings to plan next steps in building students' recall and comprehension.