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I've always enjoyed teachers who prepare their material well(like you possibly do), but one thing that made teachers for me stand out is doing a great material
by thiago_fm 8y ago
I've always enjoyed teachers who prepare their material well(like you possibly do), but one thing that made teachers for me stand out is doing a great material and also presenting well.
Being able to be sometimes funny or interesting, throwing some anecdotes in the mix, paying attention the the feelings of the students: sometimes things in computer science is hard and tedious.
Recognizing that and that this can make students have a hard time paying attention or enjoying it, might make your class better as for those topics, you would try to maximize the students attention with what I've mentioned above: throwing a joke, giving it some pause etc.
Other than that, I don't believe much further can be achieved. The student must also be willing to learn, and unfortunately not all of them will be willing, at all times. It's just how it is.
I don't teach because it cant pay as good as doing software dev for me(and I don't have a masters), but I've done a lot of stuff at university and teached a lot(was TA, helped people before exams etc) and have really enjoyed that time. But I saw that no matter how hard as I try, if the other part is not willing to listen, there is nothing much I can do. But that doesn't let me down, because for every 1 student that wasn't willing, there were always 20... I hope that later in my life I can teach some at college again, I like it a lot, but the financial obligations people have early in life makes it hard to go through that route, at least in most locations in the world.
Good luck, you are doing a favor to humanity!