Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding
Teaching Teaching & Understanding Understanding is a 19-minute short-film about teaching at University. It is the winner of “Det gyldne Snit” 2006 and if you are interested about teaching (or learning) in an University environment, we highly recommend it!
The film presents, in a very effective and funny way, how teaching and learning are being done in universities. It basically compares different types of teachers and students in several different situations.
But the best thing about the movie is that it is constructive. It presents more effective ways (or theories) to teach and learn in an university environment.
Maybe it’s because we have started recently teaching (and sometimes we get depressed with students behaviour), but there were two quotes that we think are worth noting here:
Transmission is not the way humans learn
and
“Learning takes place through the active behavior of the student; it is what he does that he learns, not what the teacher does. (Ralph W. Tyler, 1949)” .
Hence, the lesson is that learning is an activity that requires initiative and action! That’s what we tell to our (mathematics) students: they will only learn if they practice.
(We thank Claus Brabrand for the comments and the corrections.)