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The editor of Teaching Theology and Religion facilitated this reflective conversation with five teachers who have extensive experience and success teaching extremely large classes (150 students or more). In the course of the conversation these professors exchange and analyze the effectiveness of several active learning strategies they have employed to overcome the passivity and anonymity of the large lecture format. A major point of debate emerges that contrasts the dynamically performative and highly informed and skilled lecturer with the “wasted time and money” that results from encouraging students to participate through various active learning strategies. Other themes include the importance of story telling in the religious studies classroom, the significance of the differences between students' learning styles, and the challenge of teaching and assessing critical thinking and communication skills.

300 page pdf version of a book about effective communication. For any given idea we have, there are 100 different ways to communicate it. Which one do you choose? The book answers these questions, and this guide helps to distill these concepts into teachable exercises.

In prepping for lectures, this is the largest pronunciation dictionary, all the words in all languages pronounced by native speakers.

Activities you can use to engage your students during your lectures and how to work these activities into your class.

Video. Connecting to YouTube can be inconvenient in the middle of a PowerPoint slideshow. These step-by-step instructions will help you to embed a YouTube video right into one of your slides

These methods of non-sequential navigation in PowerPoint can help you add flexibility to your class sessions and better respond to the needs of your students.

Prezi is a free online presentation tool that allows you to create and share dynamic presentations. Without slides and bullet points, you are able to explore relationships among ideas through movement, allowing the form of your presentation to support its content.

"A short bulleted list of effective techniques when lecturing, from Stanford University's Teaching Commons. "

This site provides a number of resources and suggestions for designing and delivering effective lectures.

Clickers can be used to increase student-student and student-instructor interactions, to assess student preparation and learning, and to probe students' opinions or attitudes.