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NPR is starting off a series titled "50 Great Teachers" and is starting with Socrates:
We're starting this celebration of teaching with Socrates, the superstar teacher of the ancient world. He was sentenced to death more than 2,400 years ago for "impiety" and "corrupting" the minds of the youth of Athens.
But Socrates' ideas helped form the foundation of Western philosophy and the scientific method of inquiry. And his question-and-dialogue-based teaching style lives on in many classrooms as the Socratic method.
Most of us have been influenced by our teachers, and some of them may have even been great ones even if, unlike Socrates, they toiled in anonymity. So, I ask this question: Who were (or are) your greatest teachers, why, and what did you learn from them that made them so great?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday October 30 2014, @02:50AM
Demand that all students take notes by hand and turn their ringers off, and any student brandishing a gadget or emitting a gadget's ringtone or other noise gets only one Mulligan before they're ejected from the class for "disruptive behavior." Exceptions to the rule like Doctors-on-call or drug dealers must provide written documentation beforehand.
Most of your students that actually make it through the whole program will thank you for it later.