Teaching methods (was Umbridge and Harry's Temptations)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 120021


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "javalorum" <javalorum at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> 
> I only looked into Ootp regarding teaching methods at Hogwards. 
Does 
> anyone else think this school has pretty low standard of teaching? 
> Every class, the teacher just shows up, and says "read the books" 
> (Umbridge, Trelawney) or "read my instructions and do it" (Snape). 
It 
> seems Binns is the only one that talks to the entire class during 
his 
> class. I know Umbridge is not meant to be a good teacher.  

Hickengruendler:

And she's not the only one ;-). Really, IMO, you have picked up the 
worst teachers of them all (except Lockhart, who comes second only 
after Umbridge). Snape and maybe even Binns are highly competent in 
the knowledge of their subject, but they are horrible in bringing the 
message across. Trelawney is bad, too, but I think that's more 
because of the subject. She does encourage them to work together and 
to discuss the problems, though, which is not bad, and puts her as a 
teacher above Umbridge or Lockhart or even Binns in my book. 

There are better teachers:

Hagrid tells them a lot about the different creatures and how to 
handle them. Of course he either overestimates the class or 
underestimates the monsters, but otherwise his teaching methods are 
not bad. He tells them exactly what they have to know about the 
beasts. Grubbly-Plank is even better than him.

Flitwick gave them proper instructions in the scene where they 
learned the Wingardium Leviosa spell. Sprout tells them how to handle 
the Mandrakes, Lupin explains them very well how to defeat the 
boggart, the fake Moody shows them the Unforgivables and even how to 
fight the Imperius Curse (and I can only guess that he had to do this 
because that's what the real Moody wanted to do as well, and he 
couldn't risk to blow his cover), McGonagall is also very good in 
explaining them.