Classroom Interaction Quotes

I did improv in junior high school. Figuring out my comedic timing helped my confidence in talking to the bullies and talking to people in class. If I could make them laugh, then I was in; I was OK.

The best teacher is very interactive.

I taught. I lectured at universities. I spoke to my students. I spoke in certain public forums. But what I didn't do was respond to microphones being thrust in my face and saying, what is your relationship with Obama and are you an unrepentant terrorist?

The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

I want to go to colleges and give seminars. I want to sit down with kids in classrooms and have them challenge me.

A good teacher feels his way, looking for response.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

If you are giving a graduate course you don't try to impress the students with oratory, you try to challenge them, get them to question you.

I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.

And that's actually the brunt of what we do is, people going straight from their workplace, straight from home, straight into the classroom and working directly with the students. So then we're able to work with thousands and thousands more students.

I always enjoy speaking at schools. The questions are usually direct but courteous and designed to elicit an answer rather than to simply impress the friends of whoever is asking them.

I made a point of always teaching undergraduates because they are not a captive audience. . . . I always tried out my research ideas first in the classroom to get feedback from people who didn't have to listen to me if I didn't make it interesting.

In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.

I feel I learned as much from fellow students as from the professors.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

In an undergraduate business environment, the best learning experience is the interaction students have with each other. They need to learn from each other as much as from professors and lectures and other teaching tools.

Many classrooms are overcrowded, and splitting the class into smaller groups gives the children more one on one attention.

If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.

As the daughter of a schoolteacher, I feel very strongly that the most important thing in school takes place right there in that classroom, and the interaction between the teacher and the child.

A good teacher, like a good entertainer first must hold his audience's attention, then he can teach his lesson.

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?

I had a speech class in elementary school. And you know how teachers, when a kid is struggling to pronounce a word, used to lead him and say, 'Johnny, sounds like... ? Johnny, sounds like... ?' I said out loud, 'Sounds like Johnny can't read.' Teacher told me to leave the room.

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.