I’ve been teaching in some form since I was twelve, when I started tutoring classmates and, on extremely rare occasion, giving lectures when teachers were absent. I have continued in some facet ever since, working in Cornell’s Math Support Center (walk-in tutoring for all undergraduate and some graduate courses) while an undergrad myself, acting as a calculus TA/instructor and guest lecturing while a PhD student, and serving as a TA for a large graduate course on applied deep learning as a postdoc, all while continuing to tutor all sorts of classes for private clients. Education was, is, and will always be an important part of my life regardless of career path; I will be involved off-hours in some capacity even if my primary employer is not directly involved.
The pages below will cover different important aspects of my thoughts and my experiences, be it my actual thoughts and experiences, as well as notes and other resources that I like/make myself.
Students can be much more capable than many instructors/mentors give them credit for, but instructors/mentors must be cognisant of the fact that they might care much more about what they teach and work on than students ever will. That’s not a bad thing. Read more