How can you teach a class from a Certification Test Preparation Software Package?

Or as one person aptly phrased it - "How not to teach a class".  I read something about a similar situation in a newsgroup not so long ago, but dismissed it, not actually believing that a trainer would actually stoop so low as to do such a thing - but I did indeed see this occur.

How can a trainer teach a class from or lecture from a certification test software preparation package?  I saw this incident recently and was amazed to say the very least. There was a classroom full of students actually listening (well maybe, there did seem to be some heavy eyelids present) to an instructor go through the questions of a test preparation software package - question - by - painful - question.  This is not the way to teach a class, no matter what type.  If you are going to teach a class, you don't use these materials - period!  I believe in this case that this was a class designed to help students prepare for a test, and was not a standard delivery of material.  Even if this was the case - reading over the material from one of these test preparation packages is not necessarily going to be the best solution for the students.  I can understand the motive behind this - easy to "teach".  You have all the questions and answers available right there (but I have found enough errors and factual mistakes in some of these to question the veracity of their answers) in a ready to use fashion - but how long can you go through one of these packages before the whole class is snoozing?

I think if the students are paying good money to attend a class and an instructor is going to be standing in the front of the classroom at the podium teaching, then the students should get something more than a simple recitation of the material from one of these self-study certification packages!  This is as bad if not worse than the Dreaded Page Turners reading from the slides or book.

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