Select one or more of the activities below to develop your skills in lecturing and presentations skills.

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Activity 1

You have been invited to give a lecture on a clinical topic to 50 final year medical students. Identify a topic (without too much deliberation) and then list your aims and up to three learning outcomes or objectives.

Activity 2

Prepare an outline lecture plan for the subject you identified in activity 1. Use the lesson plan in the Teachers’ toolbox to help structure the session.
Pay particular attention to how you propose to structure the lecture and how you plan to engage the students in activities to encourage active learning

Alternative activity

If you are actually required to deliver a lecture or presentation (e.g. for a case review or clinical presentation) in the near future, carry out activities 1 and 2 for your lecture.

Using the PLAN – REVIEW – REFLECT – ACT cycle, list the changes you would make after running the session and observing the impact on the learners/audience.

What worked well?

What could have been improved?

Activity 3

Actively observe some teaching sessions with a view to considering how AV and multimedia resources are used by the teachers and what the impact is on learning.

Identify your own staff development and learning needs in this area and find out about training sessions available in your organisation.
Or get a colleague to give you some honest and constructive feedback on your use of technology and how you might improve your skills.