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After the training session today, I found out that teachers may act very strangely in class or they can adopt very original methods of managing seminars. Here are some examples I heard today:
– One professor marks students’ attendance at the end of the class and only students who participated in the discussion are marked as „present”.
– One professor gives students three cards of different colors in the beginning of the class. Students have to give the teacher a card if they want to say something. They are not allowed to speak if they don’t have cards left. This way, no student can monopolize the seminar and everybody has to participate.
– One professor asks questions from the required bibliography, in the beginning of the seminar. If one student doesn’t know the answer, he/she is obliged to leave the classroom. Eventually, students are motivated to read the bibliography.
– One teacher gives good grades to students who bought his book (hm… now, where did I hear about that situation before?)
– One professor speaks only about his theory during seminars and is urging students to read the bibliography if they really want to learn „other theories”