04/17/95

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History professor David Kennedy shares tips on giving lectures

STANFORD -- Invoking the prayer of all graduate students about to give their first lecture, David Kennedy, the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History, flipped on the overhead projector and asked his listeners to recite the following to themselves: "Oh, Lord, am I scared!"

The recipient of the Humanities and Sciences Dean's Award for Outstanding Teaching and the Richard W. Lyman Award for Faculty Service, Kennedy was the first speaker in the spring quarter continuation of the Center for Teaching and Learning's "Teachers on Teaching" series. In his talk April 13, titled "How to Give a Lecture," he suggested that the "prayer" projected on a screen at the front of the classroom also could be used as a mnemonic device, or outline, for his self-described "nuts-and-bolts lecture lecture."

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