Confessions of a Converted Lecturer: From Teaching by Telling to Teaching by Questioning

Conference by Eric Mazur, Harvard University

Abstract : I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it significantly has improved my students’ performance.

Date : February 6th
Time : 14h15
Place : Grand auditoire de l’Ecole de physique