Title: What is Interactive Lecture?
Headings: What is Interactive Lecture?
What is Interactive Lecture?
The Basic Structure of Interactive Lecture
Triggers, Tasks, and Techniques

Content: After students have a minute to consider the impact on their own, they then share and discuss their answer with one or two classmates sitting near by. The newspaper headline serves as an engagement trigger to capture student attention and the subsequent activity is an example of a form of the think-pair-share learning structure that allows an immediate response to or application of the content. Calling on some groups for their responses and allowing discussion as a class reinforces the content application and aids in learning.' The Basic Structure of Interactive Lecture
The goal of interactive lecture is to engage students by finding ways for them to interact with the content, the instructor, and their classmates. Accordingly, interactive lectures include segments of lecture combined with segments where students interact. One of the things that makes the lecture interactive is the ability of the instructor to choose the content of the lecture segments based on the students' needs. If students have difficulty answering a question, or an activity goes astray in many or most student groups, it's time to find a new and better way to deal with the material. Instructors can also think of the value of format change during a class period in two ways. Format change is valuable in its own right for recapturing attention and engaging students. Also, the new format is often a better way to teach a topic or get a point across.