24. Send encouraging emails at the end of the semester to relevant students.
25. Smile (see principle #2).
7. Each and every theory must be presented back by empirical evidence, not passed down as wisdom of the ancients.
8. Inoculation is an important part of the job: against appealing-but-wrong ways of thinking; and against popular-but-wrong “facts”/memes.
17. Ensuring students get reps in is important.
18. Cold calling is useful.
19. Connecting to current events is useful.
20. Teaching centered on questions may be useful.
9. It’s okay or may even be good if learning feels painful.
10. Repetition is important.
11. Consistency is important, e.g. in notation and terminology.
Some teaching principles: #econsky
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0. Have extreme empathy.
1. Grading should be predictable.
2. Enthusiasm matters! Show that you care – channel your enjoyment!
3. Actively solicit feedback.
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21. Sitting in on colleagues’ lectures for the same course is useful.
22. Teaching dialectically and showing the history of thought is useful.
23. Get student buy-in on the electronics policy.
12. Teaching facts and encouraging memorization of facts is underrated.
13. Simple, decisive empirical moments are both more memorable and plausibly more important evidence than fancy complicated evidence.
14. “See the other side”: help students understand the perspective of other students.
15. Considering extreme cases is usefully clarifying.
16. Rapid feedback is important.
4. Teaching is hard because of the curse of knowledge.
5. Teach in multiple ways.
6. Keep it simple – but that doesn’t mean easy: teach fewer things but teach them more deeply.