After registering for a religion course this fall, I thought I could get a lot out of it, and that it would be of some interest to me. This fairy tale could, in some dimension, come true. The problem - class. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, I spend the eleven o'clock hour sitting through a lecture. No variations. No fun. This is college. We are here to learn. This is quite unfortunate, in my book.
My skill for guessing at the time is impeccable. Each day, when I think our class's time together has passed, it is ALWAYS only 11:20. How can this be? A) the lectures are boring, but that doesn't make them bad. What does make them unfavorable is the fact that the professor never checks to see how the class is responding to the information. On one hand I can count how many times technology has been incorporated by the teacher. Most days, attempts at writing main points on the board are tried, but by the end of class there is usually just a collection of 5 - 10 random words that have no special meaning to the lecture's content or main points. In all, looking at student's reactions to the subject content and adjusting their needs, along with the helpful incorporation of visual aids would be of great help to the success of this professor's lecture style.
