What is Your Opinion - Teacher Lecture or Classroom Dialogue for Learning?

There is no correct answer. Since students learn in different ways the optimum method would be to use many different types of teaching so as to reach audio learners, visual learnings, right and left brain learners, ect. Teachers in public schools are often given many kids with many different ability levels and learning styles and not enough time to design individual lessons for all of them.

I think that the ideal teacher student realtionship is one in which there is a dialogue and that there are different modalties of learning being presented. I think lessons needed to be preseneted in a varieity of different ways for the different learning styles your students may have

Interaction and activity-based methods in learning are important, but the best method for me is the lecture method. It's the teacher's job to give the necessary input first before you could let students perform any other learning activities. I really don't know about China, but I guess Chinese students are really good listeners and diligent, and maybe they have really quality teachers. I learned that China is on top right now.

There are so many ways to learn. Learning from the teachers is a formal way to do it and learning from others also help. theories taught by the teachers are just that, theories but when these theories were discussed and in turn sharing how theu used these theories, it brings about a new theory better than the last one. I think, more schools now are open to differnt approaches on how to present facts and information to their students.