Teaching Styles

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No: HPFGUIDX 147913

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at ...> wrote:

> Maybe this will make things clearer... I don't think there is 
> anything inherently *wrong* with Snape's scolding Neville 
> severely when he makes basic mistakes in Potions classes. I don't 
> think that that is inappropriate.
> 
> *BUT* I do think that it is probably counterproductive. That method 
> might work with most students, but I do think that Neville as an 
> individual would probably respond better to less stressful correction 
> of his mistakes. And I wouldn't have any problem at all, if Snape saw 
> that and decided that *with Neville specifically* a different 
> approach might be a better one to use. By the same token, I believe 
> that if he did that, he would be affording Neville a privilege - not 
> a right.

Actually, a really good teacher would see that his approach would be
counterproductive and would at least try and change it. It has nothing
to do with priveliges or rights but with his job requirement. A
teacher has to teach and an effective teacher is one where students
learn something. Snape is quite all right as a teacher, but he is not
flexible enough to be a truly good one.

As for the Trevor incident: that was vile. There is no way a teacher
can justify that.

Gerry