By

Prof. Miller Lucky Jr.

Professor Miller Lucky Jr., a Kennedy Center national outstanding teaching-artist, shares tips on active lecturing that consistently make him one of the highest rated teachers at the University by his students, clients, peers and national adjudicators of the American College Theatre Festival.  A four year anonymous survey of Miller Lucky's teaching-presentation at the University concluded 80% of students responded: "Prof. Lucky is the best teacher I ever had!"

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It is well known that there is a direct link to poor student-learning and ineffective lecture presentations.  Given the uphill battles and pressures that teachers face—student boredom proneness, extraordinarily high accountability to administration, physical and psychological burn-out and other negative variables influencing teaching—educators need practical solutions that will create positive results in the classroom in order to save students, their personal careers and their schools.  Prof. Lucky suggests the following:

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Practice Four “Soul Attraction Performance” Core-Competencies:

1. The lecture presentation should be thought of as a theatrical production.
2. The lecturer-presenter should be vocally, physically and mentally prepared as a performer.
3. The lecture presentation should be creatively active.
4. The lecturer-presenter should become a “motivator/seller” of ideas

While improving on the four core-competencies, here’s what you can do to improve your lectures: