Instructional Method Quotes

A child knows when they are on the receiving end of a didactic exercise, or when they are sitting in the shadow of something else.

The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher.

A pedant holds more to instruct us with what he knows, than of what we are ignorant.

I don't do a lot of top-down teaching.

Don’t preach. Teach.

I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student-to each student-as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total.

First figure out why you want the students to learn the subject and what you want them to know, and the method will result more or less by common sense.

Teaching is a very effective way to get children to learn something specific - this tube squeaks, say, or a squish then a press then a pull causes the music to play. But it also makes children less likely to discover unexpected information and to draw unexpected conclusions.

Vitellius would've given Percy an hour-long lecture on the subject, probably with a PowerPoint presentation.