Frameworks and advice for small group teaching

1. Frameworks and advice for small group teaching Or “Teaching Questions Rather than Answers” Tom Stafford, University of Sheffield HEA Psychology ‘Postgraduates Who Teach’ Network 2 Nov 2009

3. Self-centered Lazy Irresponsible

5. “People think of good and bad teachers as engaged in the same activity, as if education was a substance, and that bad teachers supply a little of the substance, and good teachers supply a lot. This makes it difficult to understand that education can be a destructive process, and that bad teachers are wrecking talent, and that good and bad teachers are engaged in opposite activities.” - Johnstone, Keith (1979). Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre. New York: Theatre Arts Books.

6. The mind is not a vessel to be filled, But a fire to be lighted

7. So, let’s think about how we learn, not about what

10. The social psychology of a seminar

19. Teaching Questions Rather Than Answers

26. Self-centered Lazy Irresponsible

27. Stafford, T. (2008). A fire to be lighted: a case-study in enquiry-based learning. Practice and Evidence of Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, Vol. 3, No. 1, April 2008, pp.20-42. t.stafford@shef.ac.uk