Quoting Chris Scheitle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Chris:
DITTO, DITTO AND DITTO again. I've been meaning to convey the same sentiments to Del for some time; you beat me to it!! Del consistently uses the phrase "teacher-preacher"in a perjorative sense and never elaborates on what he *specifically* means by it and any "scientific" evidence attesting to its efficacy or lack thereof. By combing the terms it is evident he is merely using them as a way to "vent" something but never details what it is in a logical fashion. Michael > > Comic relief? I found your post rather amusing, so I'm glad you found > humor in mine. Del, your point about testing and the lecture model is > well taken...but it was well taken the first time you said it....not > the 100th. It is very frustrating for me and I am sure others (since I > am not the first to raise this issue with you I know this is the case) > to have someone ask a very serious question that they want advice on > and all you throw out are the same comments that are so vague that they > aren't helpful in any concrete way. > > Since you like to speak of testing so much...what evidence do you have > that lecture based classes are the cause of all that is wrong with the > world (since you imply this frequently)? It seems to me that college > courses are significantly more "tested" and much less lecture based > than they were in the past. Maybe the problems you refer to are caused > by the decline of the lecture\"preacher" model. I have spoken with > many exchange students from Europe who find our "participatory" > classrooms (i.e. anti-lecture based) rather silly because they are used > to purely lecture formats where discussion\activities\etc are not used. > Does this mean that European education is in the toilet? > > In short, I'm sorry if others don't agree with me (and I know Del > doesn't), but I signed on this morning and another round of the > "lecture\preacher" cliches just sent me over the edge. I'll keep it to > myself for now on. > > Chris > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Teaching Sociology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/teachsoc -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
