Definition
overtaught
adjective
- having received excessive instruction or teaching; taught too much or too intensively
Usage: often used to describe students who have been pushed too hard academically
verb
- past tense and past participle of 'overteach'; to teach excessively or with too much intensity
Usage: transitive verb
Examples
- The overtaught students showed signs of burnout by the end of the school year.
- Parents worried they had overtaught their children by enrolling them in too many tutoring programs.
- Some educators argue that modern curricula have overtaught test-taking skills at the expense of critical thinking.
- The overtaught approach to grammar left students confused rather than confident.
- Teachers should avoid overtaught lessons that overwhelm learners with too much information at once.
- She felt overtaught in mathematics, having attended both school classes and private lessons simultaneously.