For months I have been pondering about what it takes to teach (science) well, inspired by many far-from-ideal lectures I had to endure. At the beginning of this academic year, we had three great lectures within first week only (exceeding the number of great lectures of the whole last academic year), so I decided to put this blog entry on hold. Now it's 6th week and there definitely haven't been any great lectures since, so I am back to thinking... the writing is still in progress, but I thought I put up these two pictures in the meantime. In my opinion, they summarise the bottom line of ideal versus reality....
Number one is how I would imagine one would go about teaching. Start with the basics (the foundations, but it seemed too hard to draw a basement) and then build on them.
Number two is a summary of how I often feel in lectures. Imagine the paper shredded... It was too hard to draw that, too!! ;-)
Number one is how I would imagine one would go about teaching. Start with the basics (the foundations, but it seemed too hard to draw a basement) and then build on them.
Number two is a summary of how I often feel in lectures. Imagine the paper shredded... It was too hard to draw that, too!! ;-)
