We are the Problem!

So, just when you think the challenges and joys that come from teaching are modern day issues along comes a painting done in the mid-14th century of a teacher in the classroom of those times. Look familiar? See the kids talking? How about the one sleeping? Or, the male student eye-balling the female in the second row?

If your classroom looks like this one, perhaps it is time to make a change and try something different and realize it is not the students that have a problem with learning -- it is our approach to teaching, perhaps!

For more information on this painting of a medievel university lecture and the role of the professor through the ages, check out a great powerpoint at:
www.sloanconsortium.org/conference/proceedings/2007/ppt/1191515466567.ppt