Silly quotation of the day
In a carefully designed test at Norwich University in England, teachers gave a lecture specifically designed to be effective (McLeish, 1968).
— L. Dee Fink, Creating Significant Learning Experiences (Jossey-Bass, 2003)
In the real world, has any teacher ever given a lecture specifically designed to be ineffective?
3 comments Christopher Heard | teaching and learning
I tried once, but it didn’t work… :)
I recall a pure mathematics lecture I attended once wherein the lecturer sought to demonstrate a proof of some particular theorem. After about 40 minutes of working on the boards (that’s a sign of age), he declared that he no longer had any idea what he was doing.
That one must almost qualify!
I don’t try to be ineffetive. But sometimes they can’t tell the difference.