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1. Before you begin, make sure you and your students have
all the material needed for the lesson at hand.

2. Make sure the students are as comfortable as you can
make them (temperature, adequate lighting, etc.), and
make sure they can see everything that you will be doing.

3. Explain the objective of the lesson—students should
have a written copy of their own to refer to. If this isn’t
the first lecture in the series, spend a minute or two
reviewing what came before. (If you are using a course
map, refer to it to remind students of the bigger picture.)

4. Explain/demonstrate why what they are about to learn is
important to them.

5. Follow your lesson plan (described in Chapter 15).

6. Allow students to spend as much lesson time as possible
practicing.

7. Then find out how well each student can perform the
objective being learned. (This is much more difficult to
do in the instructor-led format than the performance-
controlled format, but do your best.)