Learning to Teach in Higher Education 2nd ed by Paul Ramsden

Chapter 2

This chapter briefly outlines three case studies which are an anonymous composite of teachers thinking about (conceptualising) their teaching experience and practice.  I have come to understand particularly over the last year or so that there are no easy answers when it comes to 'how to teach', at some points it has seemed overwhelming and it is certainly complex and there is not a 'set of rules' to solve all the problems.  I have enough experience now to know that the same session repeated can be received very differently.  I can relate to elements of all 3 case studies and have probably thought similarly to all of them at different times! The important thing to note is that how I experience teaching has implications for the ways in which the students will learn, what I do or say in the classroom effects what they will be able to do or understand.

The next three chapters examines these implications from three points of view:

• different outcomes of learning
• the ways in which students go about learning
• our students' perceptions of teaching