as making the class read aloud was usually a tactic used when a teacher didn't feel like actively teaching that day, and was just filling time.
The teacher has the responsibility to transform the material, thru presentation style, into something the student will look forward to engaging in.
I think that's what makes a good teacher, and it's why I'm against the old 'just make the kids read aloud' stuff.
Sounds like grammar school. I hadn't had teachers do that "have the kids read aloud from the book in class" in high school and definately not college. Some of my grammar school teachers did nothing else. Other teachers in grammar school sometimes didn't really know the material and winged it. "How could an adult not know something that's taught in grammar school" you ask. Well, how many adults know the formal defination of a sentence in English grammar? My teacher said that a sentence was "A complete thought". Well, when you think about it, that doesn't really tell you anything. What makes it incomplete or complete? Well, I eventually figured out that a "complete thought" had a noun (or pronoun) and a verb in it. Which is what all sentences had in them. But the teacher probably thought that he was telling us something useful with the "complete thought" thing. The science teachers didn't know much beyond what your Aunt Tillie or my grandmother knew about electricity ("well it makes the lights go on and I gotta pay the bill every month...").
But you should have teachers that actually understand the material at that ABCI school. Ones that get evaluated on how well they teach. Sadly that doesn't happen in college, where the professors are evaluated only on how much research money they can bring into the college and how many papers they publish. Teaching a class is the last priority for them. To them it's a waste of their time, and thus they give it no effort.
