The Seven Pillocks of Teaching

The number seven is a mystical and magical number with many influential books using it to help their message resonate with as wide an audience as possible.

• The Bible is littered with examples such as the creation of the world in Seven days.
• TE Lawrence offered "Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
• There are said to be Seven Deadly sins - there's also a number of less deadly but equally entertaining ones.

So here's my HE offering- Seven Pillocks of Teaching

1.    The pillock who thinks that reading aloud from PowerPoint slides is the same as teaching

2.    The pillock who thinks that student teaching is the same as student learning

3.    The pillock who thinks that being a good researcher automatically qualifies a person as a good teacher

4.    The pillock who thinks that exams are the only way to test achievement

5.    The pillock who mistakes good student feedback for good learning

6.    The pillock who thinks that the way to help students to develop writing skills is to set them an essay

7.    The pillock who is still using the same lecture slides as he/she did 5 years ago

Happy 2017.  Don't be a pillock.