Mini Blog Post 18: How to teach things well — Neel Nanda
My thoughts on how to teach ideas effectively and efficiently, especially giving talks and tutoring. With a focus on the high-level concepts and pitfalls to bear in mind, and my thoughts on the general process of learning
Introduction This is a blog post on how to teach things well. I’ll mostly be focusing on forms of teaching that involve preparation and structure, like talks and tutoring, but these ideas transfer pretty broadly. I think teaching and explaining ideas is an incredibly important skill, and one that most people aren’t great at. I’ve spent a lot of time practicing teaching ideas, and I think I’ve found a bunch of important ideas and approaches that work well. I’m giving a talk next week, so I’ll initially focus on how to give good talks, but try to outline the underlying concepts and high-level…
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