This document contains the plan for a seminar on effective teaching methods. It includes sections on a warm-up activity, discussing why students forget material over time, preparing a strong course syllabus, elements of an effective lecture, and sources of information. The conclusion emphasizes that learning changes behavior, a well-prepared syllabus is key, and lectures should engage students in producing new knowledge rather than just repeating what is known. The overall goal is to discuss how to structure teaching to maximize long-term retention and application of course material.

1. Learning is changing behavior;
teaching is changing yourself…
Dr. Ibrahim Koncak
International Atatürk Alatoo University

2. SEMINAR PLAN
• Warm-up activity
• Reality and Questions
• Syllabus Preparing
• Lecture Plan
• Elements of lecture
• Nurbek doesn’t want to go to university
• Conclusion remarks and Questions

3. WARM UP ACTIVITY
• Write 3 questions you would like to ask to the presenter on this topic?
• Write the title of the methodology book you read recently on the other side
of the paper.
• Write the title of the last book you finished reading in last three months on
back of the paper.
• Write the title of the book you are reading at the moment.

4. REALITY AND QUESTIONS
• Students forget most of the details they have learned just after the lecture is over;
they forget the remaining following the exams; they start to forget the titles of the
lectures in five years; in ten years’ time students forget most of the titles of the
lectures if they are not in the academia.
• Exceptions? Well, exceptions do not change the rule…
Fundamental Questions:
• Why do we teach what we teach then? What is our goal in teaching as a
lecturer/teacher? Are we wasting time or is there a way to do something about it?

5. COURSE SYLLABUS
• Check if …
• course syllabus is strong enough (How to prepare a course syllabus?)
• books and articles are available for the course (hard copy and soft copy)
• you read the course books yourself
• course books are up-to-date
• the syllabus is suitable for your students (the weakest and strongest student)
• evaluation and marking is interactive (do students produce something or do they repeat
what is already known?)

6. LECTURE PLAN
• Check if…
• you are ready for lecture.
• you have lecture notes
• you read the topic from different sources
• you not the only speaker in class

7. ELEMENTS OF LECTURE
In class
• Introduction
• Note-taking
• In-class presentation
• Using short videos
• Q&A sections
• Pop-up Quizzes
• Conclusion
Out of Class
• Reading Assignments
• Summaries & Questions
• Dictionary Work
• Short Papers
• Research Papers
• Take-home exams
• Video Presentation

8. SOURCES
Bill Wilder,How Learning Can Change Behavior, Produce Results.
http://www.reliableplant.com/Read/28781/learning-change-behavior. Access
date: December 24, 2015

9. Conclusion and Remarks
• Learning is changing behavior based on the learned knowledge; well prepared
syllabus is key to an effective lecture; ingredients of lecture should be diversified
giving chance to all students to demonstrate their abilities; students should not only
repeat what is known BUT they should produce knowledge.
• Lecturer should be digestibly strict; respectably flexible; ambitiously dedicated
towards the students.
• All is forgotten except to meet deadlines, to be patient, to be analytical, to be
focused, to respect others.

10. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION!