I think that this teacher’s PERFORMANCE was great! And many of you may think that this was a great lesson… It was funny, well orchestrated, etc.
However, I do think that it’s ultimately also an example of “bad teaching”… because it’s ENTERTAINMENT instead of LEARNING. Students will remember this “lesson”, but they will certainly not remember anything of the math content “explained”… math, here, is not essential, it’s the background of the “theater play”. Moreover only the teacher was active here… and wow, what a well prepared “lesson”… students were merely laughing and being entertained… students were passive… the teacher probably learned a lot about video-projections and the like while he was preparing this SHOW… but all that students probably learned was that they have a cool teacher, who thinks that they deserve such a nicely prepared show for Halloween… Students certainly deserve teachers who like to work, but, hey, they certainly deserve teachers who make them learn themselves, who encourage them to be creaCtive producers instead of passive consumers…
Thanks to Kristina Höppner for pointing out this video to me.