Teaching Philosophy
I recently watched a presentation where the presentor sat at the front of the room with his back to the audience, reading his overpacked slides for 25 minutes. I was astounded because his topic was important and his knowledge flawless but my retention was 0.
Subsequently, I started reading Dr. Roger Shank's book "Teaching Minds: How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools".
In the book, he talks about how Teaching = Telling was common practice
for hundreds of years. Oral traditions of teaching are holdovers from
the days when books and paper were rare commodities, but then television
and the Internet entered the world and changed people's ability to
access vast quantities and qualities of information quickly.
Teaching = Telling isn't just outmoded, it is dangerous. The practice
of non-critically believing what people tell you, particularly people
in authority or people with notoriety is what has led to the refusal to
vaccinate children, creationism taught as science, financial scams by
trusted advisors and a proliferation of non-evidence based healing
practices.
Teaching = Telling in the medical classroom doesn't engage minds in
critical thinking, but it also doesn't help students remember
information either. Students attention to what they hear is the key
components of learning in an auditory culture. If students' attention
span = 15 minutes of concentration on a good day, they will remember
about 1/4 of what they heard in a 60 minute lecture. Combine the
distraction of trying to pay attention to poorly constructed,
overstuffed PowerPoint slides and retention drops even further.
So take a minute and think about - What is your teaching philosophy? How do you believe people learn?
For ideas about how to actively engage students in medical classrooms
see the teaching techniques section on the right hand side of
blog "Medical Education Blog" of Deirdre.
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