>>1476285this text might be of interest to you:
https://www.ams.org/notices/199701/comm-rota.pdfespecially its first "lesson":
>Every lecture should make only one main point. […] Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations.preparing lectures shouldn't be time-intensive
let's say you have a 15-week course comprising of 12 lectures (2 exams);
distill the contents of the course into 12 points, and i don't mean 12 themes or 12 chapters, i mean that you should be able to summarize the course with a bullet pointed list of 12 short sentences such as
>correlation does not equate causationor
>simone de beauvoir was a rapistand so on, depending of the course
never try to teach more than this; don't overestimate your students' ability to learn
you then expand on each point, never exceeding the frame of that one argument that the lesson is supposed to convey
creating problems and the like is then pretty straightforward, since the problems (or readings, or whatever) for a given lesson should all be oriented by that one point that you want the student to learn
creating an exam is even more straightforward considering you're looking for an answer to the question
>does the student know these 6 points that were thought in the first half of the course? 
