Teaching is learning...
Submitted by Antony Marcano on Sat, 08/03/2008 - 11:09.
perspectives
I've had an intense week. Wednesday I was a guest lecturer at Oxford University for their Agile Methods course. The primary lecturer for the course was Angela Martin, who had asked me a while back to talk on Test Driven Development.
Then, I was off to Somerset to run a two day Agile Testing course for a client with Rachel Davies as both my training mentor and co-trainer.
I've had to develop substantial amounts of material for both. Having to think about the best way to explain something to others makes you examine your subject area much more deeply. The questions people throw at you while you are teaching them makes you think more deeply still. You end up learning as much as the students do in the process.
I've experienced this through blogging and writing articles but there is something much deeper about the learning of face to face teaching.
Then, I was off to Somerset to run a two day Agile Testing course for a client with Rachel Davies as both my training mentor and co-trainer.
I've had to develop substantial amounts of material for both. Having to think about the best way to explain something to others makes you examine your subject area much more deeply. The questions people throw at you while you are teaching them makes you think more deeply still. You end up learning as much as the students do in the process.
I've experienced this through blogging and writing articles but there is something much deeper about the learning of face to face teaching.