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102)          the teacher seems to have been well prepared for classes

Organisation and preparation should be reflected in both the course (the way the details of it are set out for the students) and in the actual presentation of a lecture or other teaching activity. It is very evident to students when a teacher is unprepared and unorganised.

• Murphy (1998) says that "failing to plan is planning to fail" (p. 5). Murphy provides some strategies and steps to being prepared for a lecture.
•  Davis, Wood & Wilson (1983) lists ten suggestions for being prepared to teach.
• Carbone (1998) advocates effective organisation to help students follow the teacher's train of thought (p.21).  

Carbone, E. (1998). Teaching large classes: Tools and strategies (Vol. 19). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Davis, B. G., Wood, L., & Wilson, R. C. (1983). A Berkeley compendium of suggestions for teaching with excellence [World Wide Web]. The University of California. Retrieved 20 October, 2002, from the World Wide Web: http://teaching.berkeley.edu/compendium/sectionlists/sect6.html

Murphy, E. (1998). Lecturing at university. Perth, Australia: Curtin University of Technology, Paradigm Books.