User:McFarlaneMichele

I am only trying to start a wiki page for my assignment " Today the lecture system is the preferred teaching style used by 89% of science professors.   Indeed, lecture is a comfortable format for many instructors and a non-threatening one for students.  It is low cost, easy to control, and an excellent method for organizing course content. However, many of us are becoming more aware that during lecture students are not actively engaged with the topic, they don’t seem to listen for very long, and their retention of concepts is minimal.  Studies show that students are not attentive 40% of the time they are in class and that although attention is high for the first 15 minutes, it declines rapidly until the final 10 minutes of class.  About 10 years ago, I began to hear about student-centered teaching strategies, but I saw little of it at the college level.  Now that is beginning to change."