This sounds like a nightmare for introverts or people with social anxiety. Not knocking on your style; if it works based on your experience, then I guess it does.
Getting students to interact with you (the instructor) on ANY level is nightmare fuel for introverts. I say this as the instructor AND a lifelong introvert (when I not teaching my topics I love).
Agreed, but based on OP’s comment, they were forcing students to interact with each other in a public setting (in front of the whole class). Instead of directly breaking the ice between instructor and students, they were doing it by having the students interact between themselves, with the instructor as mediator.
This sounds like a nightmare for introverts or people with social anxiety. Not knocking on your style; if it works based on your experience, then I guess it does.
Getting students to interact with you (the instructor) on ANY level is nightmare fuel for introverts. I say this as the instructor AND a lifelong introvert (when I not teaching my topics I love).
Agreed, but based on OP’s comment, they were forcing students to interact with each other in a public setting (in front of the whole class). Instead of directly breaking the ice between instructor and students, they were doing it by having the students interact between themselves, with the instructor as mediator.
Can confirm. The creeping death