Agreed. I have done a bit of teaching and I would gladly turn the monologue over to someone else and spend my time working individually or in small groups with students on projects or helping them gain a deeper understanding of the material.
Re:On Leaving Academia
by lifebeyondfife on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @07:40AM
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I don't remember the lectures I gave, or the students who fell asleep in my first few tutorials... but I do remember the students who asked me about concepts they didn't fully understand and how great it felt when I could see the idea click in their head.
More of that kind of teaching could be a great thing.
To me this is the future of teaching for most teachers - whereas currently they may spend ~10% of their time one-on-one with students, in a future model I can see that figure climbing to 80-90% percent as students struggle with their homework after watching their Coursera/Udacity lectures.
Not sure how you'll feel about that but personally I always found individual instruction to be the most challenging and rewarding part of teaching :)