Other side of the Lectern
Published Wednesday, April 18, 2007 by Bharath Sattanathan | E-mail this post 
This is my 19th year of studies. Seriously for lot of people this isn't anything, but for the those blessed few, this ain't bliss. I can remember my life flow from my kindies to the major MBA now. I have been an incredible student all through, absolutely caressing my way to become the "out"-standing lot of times. Right from the back bench days to the incredible class-leader posts, I have throughly enjoyed being in educational institutions as hell.
But in all these years I haven't got one opportunity to stand at the other side of the lectern. When now all of a sudden you are thrown at the other end of the spectrum and made to deliver stuff, that's when you really get tested to the molecules. The worst thing to go along would be to test these in a western country when the system works very differently to at home.
When I was doing my undergraduate college, all we had was 5 classes in a day starting at 9am in the morning till about 4pm in the evening. You had the traditional lecturers coming into the classrooms to deliver their wonderful speeches, which would most certainly put half the class into sleep.
But the system here is divided by a lecture and few individual tutorials at the undergrad. The tutorials are more individual focused and oriented for the students to ask questions & get a personal feel about the subject.
Questions - OMG!
I don't want to write more.....
Labels: Sydney, Tutorials