Starting a lecture

Yesterday, we had a second lecture/workshop. The session was about the PG Cert course and its structure. Elena is a course leader and a lead teacher of the course. She was very well prepared and had planned all kinds of activities that made us engage into the process.

I am looking for ideas all the time and yesterday's session was no exception. I jotted down some ideas and methods Elena (Lena) used. I will be talking about them in the future posts, but now I would like to share with something I noticed yesterday. It was an evening session and we did not quite know what the session was all about. We knew it was an introduction but we did not know what exactly we will be doing. So Lena said that the session has been started and gave us agenda and quick overview of the session.

From that moment on it was crystal clear what the lesson was all about and we were all more open and confident in our engagements. So, I just noted this and thought I should write about it.

Don't take me wrong, I already know that having an Agenda section in your first PowerPoint slides is good, but I guess I never felt the gravity of it.

TIP:
Tell what lecture/session is all about at the begging.

What are your thoughts about it?