This portion of the instructor's manual shows examples of some of the lectures I have used (I often change my lectures), which you can download and modify for you own lectures.
The Standard Lectures for the Course provides a set of already-developed lectures carefully designed to cover the main points of each chapter of Personality: A Systems Approach.
The Overview and Focus Lectures represent a new approach I am trying this semester (Fall, 2006). In this new approach, I deliver a first "overview" lecture, with about 7 powerpoint slides that present an overview of an entire chapter. Then, I choose one or more "focus lectures" that focus on a particular part of the chapter. This has the drawback of not covering everything in equal depth, but the advantage of providing some extra flexibility for, say, discussion in class.
In my latest version of the lectures, Theme and Variation Lectures, I wanted to combine the best of the Standard lectures and the Overview and Focus Lectures. The Standard lectures had good organization and continuity; the Overview and Focus Lectures, on the other hand, provided some novel ways of looking at thingsm, and permitted great flexibility in classroom time and lectures.
Each Theme and Variation lecture opens with a theme related to a chapter, compares the lecture to the chapter, and then focuses on certain specific chapter topics. Because the ideas are assembled in a single presentation, they may come across as more coherent and organized than focus lectures, yet, like the focus lectures, complement, rather than simply repeat, the text.
When I began to use the systems approach (i.e., exploring, parts, organization, development) -- well before this book was available -- I didn't want to write a semester's worth of new lectures all at once. Rather, I wanted to retain some of the lectures I already had developed over a number of years. So, I made the transition to this new approach gradually.
I assume that many instructors who are using Personality: A Systems Approach also have taught a personality course using some other book -- and that their former lectures include a lot of personality psychologists' theories. To help experienced personality instructors who are new to the book, I have created a conversion chart of sorts that can help you place your old lectures into this new organization. You also may want to look at the essay, Using Pre-Existing Lectures.
Some new parts of this area of the Instructors Manual include commentaries on classroom issues, such as teaching specific theories during the coures, and on specific chapters, such as teaching Chapter 8.
Hope this helps!
Jack
