Begin by organizing your thinking and presentation. Clearly define goals and objectives for yourself and organize all class materials with these sets of objectives in mind. Begin each class session with a written agenda of goals or topics, perhaps listed on the board or on an overhead projector. Invite students to ask questions about, comment on, or make additions to the list. Help students restate and articulate what they are expected to learn in the class through the use of well-directed questions.
Students learn better if they have an organized view of where they are going.
Define key concepts at the outset so students can use them to organize the material to come. Use these concepts as a focus for discussion and restate them at the end of class. The ability to organize information comes in many forms, and a necessary starting point is the classification of the thought processes involved. Such a classification will help you frame material to stimulate a particular kind of activity. The system that follows, developed by Benjamin Bloom, is based on a hierarchy of thought processes.