There is this lecturer in my school who teaches Management Science. His notes and solutions always has several typo errors. These are clearly mistakes made by him, but, he explained that these mistakes are actually placed to test our understanding of the topic. If we are able to spot the mistakes, it would mean that we have understood the topic. Initially, I do not agree with what he did as I felt that he is just shirking his responsibilities.
But after teaching more students, I realise the importance of directing all mistakes made to become a learning topic for the students.
By doing that, you will not lose the respect from the students and they will be impressed that you are actually teaching them something different.
A good example would be what I saw earlier on this week in a School. Norman is showing the students how to solve the Rubik's cube. But, due to some talking, he missed 1 step and he has to re do it. (his record is currently 2 minutes plus to solve the cube) Before the students start to complain, he told them that solving the Rubik's cube is like solving math questions. When you missed/skipped a step while solving math questions, you may not be able to get the correct answer and end up redoing the question just like what happened to the Rubik's cube. Hence, it is very important to follow the steps of a strategy. By doing this, he actually directed their attention away from the part that he did not solve the cube, to the part that made them understand the consequences of not following steps.
#Everyone makes mistakes, the only difference is that did you learn something from it?
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