Learning Jigsaws
Learning Jigsaws "Onus of making lectures more interesting is on the teacher. What about the onus of learning?" I am an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras. I joined in 2016 and have taught multiple courses to different class strengths varying from a low 20, all the way to 150+. I am very passionate about teaching and that should do for now. I decided to embark on writing this article to share my thoughts on teaching and learning. After all, of what use is teaching if learning cannot happen at the other end? Teaching: The end goal of teaching is to ensure that students learn and that is precisely why pedagogy experts emphasize on the the role of "learning" objectives and not "teaching" objectives. Standing and simply delivering an hour long lecture will not ensure that students learn the material. Feedback plays an important role in this process and hence teachers are advised to partition their material into s...