Even at the collegiate level, teachers sometimes make the mistake of teaching into this trap. They teach the classes in a very objective manner, reading and explaining material as if it were the end-all-be-all to the course. Origin

On that first day of class, as the students filed into the room, the instructor stood quietly and squarely in the front of the room, not saying a word until all the students had filed in. Needless to say, as most students are on the first day of having a new teacher, they were a little uneasy, somewhat intimidated and possibly a little scared at the sight of the man. When everyone had been seated and quiet for a couple of minutes, he slowly made his way to the middle of the blackboard, wrote his name as plain as day on the board, and proceeded to introduce himself by asking the class, "Are you scared of me? Well I can tell you, you probably are not nearly as scared of me as I am of all of you." And with a chuckle, much of the tension in the class was eased. He then talked briefly about the class and what it would entail in terms of workload and studying, then started his PowerPoint slide. The use of the PowerPoint presentation became a staple of the class throughout the year, as will be explained in more detail in a following example. Although as the class would later learn, this "nice-guy" image that the teacher was putting out would later change into more of the traditional "dictator" role that many teachers try to emanate.

After class, one student walked towards the front of the room with his book open and asked the teacher for a moment of his time. He then explained to the teacher what the correct answer was, and even showed the teacher in the text book - the same text book that teacher had been preaching to the students all year - where and how the teacher had fouled up. Even though the teacher was obviously wrong in this case, he could not let his guard down. After all, he was the expert. He told the student that he would check another source, but that he was pretty sure he was right and the book was wrong.

The fact that no thought was evoked from the students during any of these class periods shows some of the problems that the "banking" style of teaching. It is true that the teacher probably knows more about the students in the field of study, but that does not mean that the students cannot learn the material by thinking things through on their own. On the contrary, true learning only does happen when students are forced to use and apply what they learn in the class room setting to different situations in their lives. The students in this class were more like computers than they were people. Computers take in data, store it and use it when they are called upon to recite it. Many of the students in this class did well because they could memorize things for the short term, but by not letting the students utilize their new skills and knowledge, what they were taught went to waste. T

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