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Hi, this is Tori with One With Illinois where we ask one person one question.
Today I asked Graduate Teaching Assistant Scott Martin what his teaching method is.
When teaching a 130-person lecture, a lot of the students come in,
and they're kind of shocked on Day 1 that I'm like, "Hey! You gotta talk! You wanna talk? You wanna talk?"
They're like, "This is a big lecture…I'm just supposed to be here, sitting here, and be anonymous," right?
But the way I like to do it is, no one really wants to hear me talk for an hour and twenty minutes.
I enjoy talking and I enjoy the topics we're talking about,
but I find the students really have a wealth of information and experiences relevant to the topics we cover in class.
So rather than me act like I'm the end-all, be-all on all topics that we cover,
I like to get everyone's input.
People have different opinions, and ideas, and experiences,
and all of those cumulatively together make a really good classroom environment
where people are like, "Oh! I hadn't thought of it that way before!"
And it's just also more fun, people like interactive, working in small groups, working with others, getting to know others,
so that's what I try to do no matter what size the class is.
So a 130-person lecture is not that way for me.
I get more enjoyment out of getting to know the students better and getting them to participate,
and I think they get more out of it, too, and that's my philosophy behind it.�