Interactive Ways of Actively Involving Students in the Process of Instruction: The Lecture on Scale of Discussion
Interactive Ways of Actively Involving Students in the Process of Instruction: The Lecture on Scale of Discussion

Summary/Abstract: The challenges of facilitating student-instructor interaction by replacing old, traditional or conventional instructional methods have been discussed extensively by education scholars. Several solutions of active and collaborative approaches have been developed. They all intend to overcome the passive listening to the instructor, thus moving from teacher-centred lecture halls toward more interactive ways of actively involving students in the process of learning. This paper is an attempt to underline the limitations of the traditional lecture (a one-way process unaccompanied by discussion, questioning or immediate practice), the characteristics of an effective lecture (involving students through a highly interactive and participatory approach using a variety of teaching techniques), and how to plan and deliver it (by establishing the lecture purpose, objective, logistics, approach, and notes). Further on, the focus is on methods of changing students into active learners (e.g. presentation and questioning techniques). The final part is a case study which stands proof for the necessity of implementing the lecture on scale of discussion as a new method of teaching in order to stimulate and motivate students’ work and study.

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