An Economists Guide to Teaching Styles

A witty and revealing interpretation of teaching styles here - I am sure our student and teaching community can suggest additional styles and we will happily showcase the best! Over to you!

Smithian:
Day 1, teacher walks in and sits down, points at books. Students figure it out. Some students do not.

Ricardian:
Same as Smithian but this time the students learn who is good at learning topics and who isn’t. They swap each other for information and tips until one student becomes grand poobah and charges all the others (possible short cut if teacher intervenes and charges beforehand).

Malthusian:
There is only so much spaces available in the classroom so the first students get the seats. The rest have to watch press their ear to the window as they watch from outside.

Pigouvian:
Each student is charged for every wrong answer and paid for every right answer.

Darwinian:
System whereby students develop natural advantages through the exhortations of their mothers upon their teachers.

Keynesian:
The students submit work, teachers mark it. The more they submit the more we mark and fill up our assessment spreadsheets. Everyone seems to be learning more and more. Student leave eventually and fail to ever learn anything again due to their inherent need to be spoon-fed.

Hayekian:
Perfect information, teachers tell the students everything good and bad about their performances and their learning, constantly feeding them information to ensure they make the best possible decisions. Every action is reported, analysed and evaluated. Students leave after one week to do Geography.

Marxian:
Every student gets a textbook to learn at the beginning of the course and exactly the same set of course notes. All lessons are delivered according to a script with accompanying PowerPoint. The course is only delivered once, filmed and shown as a movie to future students while the staff develop their professional knowledge down the pub.

Greenspan:
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Minksy:
Everyone within a school is superb, all students are insightful, well behaved and hard working, teachers are fantastically inspirational and everyone does jolly well. At the end of their time in school students leave and fail miserably for the rest of their lives as they are completely unprepared for the crushing drudgery of the real world.

Sachsian:
There is no perfect way to learn… apart from this brilliant way I’ve just thought of in that every child must have a bespoke, context specific and changing learning plan suited perfectly for their exact needs.

Easterleyian:
The opposite of whatever Sachs said.

Stiglizian:
Having taught for years the Stiglitzian teacher is an expert par excellence on all methods and in all contexts and will be happy to point out where you’ve been going wrong. (The Stiglitizian teacher can often be found working for OFSTED)

EdExOCRAQAesian:
All students must work really hard but their teacher should ensure they attend one short but expensive CPD course where all the exam answers might be provided