Geeky Pedagogy: A Guide for Intellectuals, Introverts, and Nerds Who Want to Be Effective Teachers (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education)

by Jessamyn Neuhaus

active learning will argue that it’s a “‘professor’s job’ to tell them what they need to know and to deliver a well-prepared lecture. Some students will even suggest that they have paid with their tuition dollars for their teachers to teach them. . . . They believe somehow that teaching is something that can be done only by the professor.”128 Richard M. Felder and Rebecca Brent describe this same common student reaction to learner-centered pedagogy, which is a radical change from teachers “telling them everything they needed to know from the first grade on. . . . When confronted with the need to take more responsibility for their own learning, students may grouse that they are paying tuition—to be taught, not to teach themselves.”