overteaching
Too much explaining
Overteaching is explaining or instructing beyond what's needed, often to the point of diminishing returns.
A teacher who overteaches a simple concept buries it under unnecessary elaboration.
The term also applies to drilling students so intensely that they lose interest or flexibility: He overteaches grammar until students are afraid to write a sentence.
Suspended without support
- controllingExerting authority over others
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
- overbearingArrogantly dominating in manner
- prescriptiveDictating correct usage
directive · hand-holding · spoon-feeding · over-explaining · smothering
State of utter depletion
- demotivationLoss of drive
- disengagementWithdrawal from involvement
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
- depletionReduction of supply
drained · apathy · weariness · detachment · disillusionment · lethargy · listlessness · resignation
Act of redoing
- redundantExceeding what's needed
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- belaboringOverworking a point
- rehashingRevisiting previously discussed material
Sustained projectile assault
- overkillUnnecessary additional effort
- swampedOverwhelmed beyond capacity
- floodedCovered with water
- inundatedOverwhelmed by quantity
overstimulation · overwhelming · cramming · stuffing · overcomplication · dense · frontloading · firehose
hovering
Suspended without support
- controllingExerting authority over others
- intrusiveInvading others' privacy
- overbearingArrogantly dominating in manner
prescriptive · directive · hand-holding · spoon-feeding · over-explaining · smothering
exhaustion
State of utter depletion
- demotivationLoss of drive
- disengagementWithdrawal from involvement
- fatigueWeariness from prolonged exertion
depletion · drained · apathy · weariness · detachment · disillusionment · lethargy · listlessness · resignation · stagnation
repetition
Act of redoing
- redundantExceeding what's needed
- drillingHole-making by rotation
- belaboringOverworking a point
bombardment
Sustained projectile assault
inundated · overstimulation · overwhelming · cramming · stuffing · overcomplication · dense · frontloading · firehose
overteachingstepping back
Moving away backward
facilitation · facilitating · Socratic method · less is more · strategic silence
teach, teacher, teaching, taught, teachers, teachable, unteachable, unteach, unteaches