Good vs Bad Teaching

This video is an excerpt from a lecture on good versus bad teaching. The lecturer is Dr Shannon Kincaid, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queensborough Community College in New York. The complete lecture can be found at:

[oshemer]

Memorization isn't everything in education, but it has its place. I can't imagine learning a foreign language without ever memorizing anything.

[ermal]

I have been teaching English in China for 5 years now and I really think this guy is speaking my feelings. Amazing principals of teachings . thank you

[spencermurphy]

this really stuck with me and made me sad that i couldn't be in a class like that because you cant radiate that kinda energy through a zoom call :( so powerful

[cindyjimenez]

He is a great teacher! I loved his class.

[daniballard]

In my opinion, a good teacher is a teacher that builds strong relationships with students. Especially the ones who have a rough life at home and a teacher can make them truly happy. Also, a good teacher makes their lessons engaging and fun which actually is better for our mental health because we’re forced to study and study and study notes and do so much homework. Fun and hands on activities makes us WANT to go to their class and learn which is more effective than just giving them notes and doing boring lectures that no one’s gonna remember bc it’s boring! Idk this is my opinion though.

[TecumsehSherman]

MEMORIZING IS LEARNING....THAT'S HOW I KNOW THE ALPAHABET AND TIMES TABLES TODAY.

[a.i.]

I remember how my chemistry teachers always told me "DON'T MEMORIZE ANYTHING, UNDERSTAND IT!!!"
And then they would tell me "You don't know the name of this compound? Oh, right, you can't do it with the rules we've taught you, this one's an exception. Yeah, you'll have to memorize this one. Also these, too. Oh, and also all these ions. Oh, and also the oxidation state of these 30-40 elements. Oh, and these procedures? Yeah, they're a little counterintuitive. Memorize these steps, but understand the procedure! Why is the procedure like this, you ask? Oh, I could explain it but you wouldn't understand it. Focus on this, you'll get it on your third year."


But in the actual classes and resources you wouldn't practice memory. They would just ramble for hours about how you shouldn't memorize anything, re-explaining the procedures but assuming you already memorized everything, waste time exemplifying with incredibly stupid and obvious metaphors (One of my teachers made two whole groups stand up and pass balls to eachother to make the point that Electrons travel from one atom to another, something that is taught in primary school.)
Stupid teaching methods, horrible organization, continous miscommunication between teachers and assistants, they had no idea how the methods of the textbook's author worked. Horrible experience.

[gwilding]

I don't like blanket statements about good and bad teachers that do not take into account the necessary balance of different teaching strategy - there is no problem with memorisation as a teaching strategy to keep things simple for both lower ability learners who cannot engage with data in the higher skills in Bloom's taxonomy and even just to revise and review key points if they will be important in external examinations. I had to do a fair amount of memorising in University. It is an important skill, even if concentrating on it solely would produce a damagingly unbalanced curriculum.
The famous quote from Yeats is that "Education is not the filling a pail, but the lighting of a light" - and I don't think anyone could ever argue that this is not the ideal of all pedagogy, but I would argue that balanced teaching requires a fair amount of pail filling alongside the inspirational ideal.

[ThatTimeTheThingHappened]

"Teachers need kids to be engaged in the process!" - proceeds to talk towards kids for the entire video.

Memorization isn't dead - it just comes AFTER understanding. Cognitively, understanding doesn't guarantee memorization.

[meritjuniors]

I wish i'd have that kind of a teacher :(

[Russpng]

I don't understand - is this the "bad lesson example"? The entire lesson he just talks "at" his students. Wasn't he suggesting at the beginning that students are supposed to be challenged and be involved, to think as part of the learning process, except he barely uses this strategy himself. His strategy is to ask a question and then give the answer himself. The student's rarely had a moment to either comment or even reflect on what he was saying. Maybe that's why it's called "virtual education"?

[gousemohiuddin]

100% right I use to force my students to memorize now I believe that I was wrong I'll try to make them think and understand.

[williamt]

Lol, in college atm, profs want me to memorize everything .

[michaelvillanueva]

Not so sound judgmental but in my novice days, and I still consider myself as a novice practitioner, I used to think that I was going to become everything that this instructor talks about.  Now I know that there will be days when you are there acting like you're a sitter.  A bad teacher is someone who's neglectful and just doesn't care.  An excellent teacher is someone that engages his/her students as part of the learning process as he talks about here.

[KB-zqny]

This guy is making sense, but has anyone considered his delivery style? Is that on purpose? Is he saying that older people don't need to be engaged in learning, just kids and undergrads?

[thefadeddog]

organic chemistry is a college level course and everything has to be memorize

[nads]

I'm watching this right now as someone who is so frustrated with her university professors. They come to the classroom and read off the slides.
Never cater to their students. Dont have a sense of enthusiasm. Literally anyone would feel like they want to fall asleep if they are in their lectures. I'm a psychology student and psychology is a VERY interesting field, but they make it very boring, and very dull with their teaching style.
They have PhDs and are well versed and read in their field, but they are absolutely terrible at conveying that information and knowledge on to the students.

[cookingcock]

this is the video about 'teaching on meth'?

[usamahlion]

A good teacher is a like acter so he do it well. I like his behavior ..

[تفاءل-غد]

Hi could you give me more videos about this how to be a good teacher