Question: what do you do in lesson?

Austin Elliott answered on 14 Jun 2012:

If you meant when I’m teaching, Adil, I teach a lot of different kinds of classes –

– lectures (I explain something to a class in a lecture theatre, can be anywhere from 50-400 people, with help of diagrams on a big screen)
– lab classes (20-50 students at a time doing experiments, with me and some assistants going round and helping them – often classes to do with how your heart or lungs work)
– ‘problem based learning’ tutorials (students discuss a problem, often a ‘case history’ for a medical case, and the scientific things underlying it, I help them out if they get stuck or go too far off-track)
– tutorials (small group, 5-10 students, could be doing all sorts of things – working through a problem, students presenting work, discussing something, writing and editing an article, etc).

– also have students doing project work in lab, so I have to teach them to use the equipment and talk through what experiments they’re going to do, review data they’ve got, and so on.

What’s your favourite kind of lesson? When I was at school I used to like lab classes (experiments) best.