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Handouts
Another abiding misconception about lectures is that learners are adequately equipped for their task, i.e. they have the necessary prior knowledge, note-taking skills and motivation to follow the lecture. Smart use of handouts can compensate for lack of preparedness without spoon-feeding, stunting intellectual growth or substituting for attendance at the lecture.
Appropriate handouts provide:
- an outline of the lecture to help learners follow it more easily and allow them to concentrate on listening and processing the information as they hear it, instead of concentrating on transcribing every word. Later, the outline will help them review their notes and reflect on the content of the lecture
- essential diagrams so learners are listening and engaging, not drawing pictures
- materials that learners may find difficult or impossible to obtain elsewhere
- questions and tasks that will encourage learners to reflect on their learning
- gaps so that learners can fill in text or complete diagrams, thus aiding the retention of knowledge
- a supplementary reading list.
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