Your Career: Keen to move away from a lecture-heavy course?

You may have to help your students unlearn some of the schooling practices into which they have been long socialized ADVERTISEMENT [Your Career Logo]( You can also [read this newsletter on the web](. Or, if you no longer want to receive this newsletter, [unsubscribe](. You may have to help your students unlearn some of the schooling practices into which they have long been socialized. The traditional lecture endures as the default instructional mode of many college classrooms. That remains the case despite evidence that exhaustive exposition from instructors tends only to benefit a particular type of student. It’s true despite an ever-growing research base that showcases the payoff of active learning. Why does the traditional lecture persist? For one thing, doctoral programs spend little time on serious instructional training. In the absence of such training, you tend to teach as you were taught. If lectures dominated your student experience — and chances are, they did — you may retreat to your lecterns and hold forth. But that is only half the story. The plot twist: Plenty of students are Team Lecture. They prefer, and think they learn more, from lectures. Such students help reinforce the idea that the traditional lecture should reign supreme in the college classroom. A case in point is a 2019 study at Harvard University: Researchers randomly assigned physics students to either an active-learning classroom or a passive-learning one relying on lectures. Instructors in both taught the same material. The study found that students in the lecture classroom believed they had learned more than those in the active one, but the active-learning students actually demonstrated higher mastery on an assessment given to both groups. Such findings show how difficult the resistance from students can be for a faculty member who wants to lecture less and use active learning more in the classroom. Continue reading: “[5 Ways to Ease Students Off the Lecture and Into Active Learning]( by Jeremy T. Murphy Share your suggestions for the newsletter with Denise Magner, an editor at The Chronicle, at denise.magner@chronicle.com. If you’d like to opt out, you can log in to our website and [manage your newsletter preferences here](. ADVERTISEMENT UPCOMING PROGRAM [The Chronicle's Bootcamp for Future Faculty Leaders] [Join us in September]( for a professional development program tailored to the needs of midcareer faculty. Experienced academic leaders and faculty members will provide insights on the diverse professional paths that might be taken by faculty members in this one-day virtual program. 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