How do I become a charismatic teacher, Veeky Forums?
My students don't hate me but I've noticed their opinions on me are very mild like "He knows his stuff", "He's an ok teacher", "He's so so".
I've noticed this thing with famous teachers at uni where their classes play more like a "sales pitch" or "comedy sketch", they sound more like entrepreneurs than teachers.
How do I make my classes more like Sagan's, le nigger science man and pre-faggotry Bill Nye?
Samuel Allen
If you have to ask, you will never be.
Leo Jackson
If you are someone who unironically uses the word "nigger" to describe other human beings then you are already too rotten from the core to be charismatic and relatable.
Luke Davis
This is what the average 2017 user looks like. Are you also going to redirect me to /pol/? Shut up, nigger.
Luke Thompson
what a bore you are personal stories that relate to the lesson are my advice, makes you more human which makes them more likely to ask you questions instead of being quiet and terrified of looking dumb.
Levi Barnes
>unironically uses the word "nigger" >unironically is there any other way to use it?
Nicholas Perry
How about you concentrate on teaching instead of charisma.
John James
But user, he's not there to impart knowledge, he's there to feel good about himself and have people praise him for not being painfully mediocre.
Joshua Foster
so Hitler and Winston Churchill and abraham lincoln and ghandi weren't charismatic? They all had low opinions of black people and were very well liked and charismatic leaders.
I don't think you thought through your hypothesis very well.
Matthew Edwards
>How about you concentrate on teaching instead of charisma. >implying students will learn because you explained the material well >implying it's not much easier to give an interesting lecture where students go home after and spend hours on the homework because you didn't explain the material well but they like you. >implying the second way won't teach students more than the first
Thomas Johnson
Good teachers need charisma, you dumbass. You're going to have unengaged students if you just read things off a text like a monotone monkey.
Anthony Sanchez
>concentrate on teaching >imparting knowledge by being a boring textbook teacher That shit doesn't work nowadays, do you really think the class will be engaged by a teacher that lacks charisma?
If you're not charismatic you can 100% sure most of your class won't pay attention to what you say
Sure, most people will be bored out of their minds
Hunter Fisher
>unengaged students but its their own fault if they are unengaged, they better engage fast I they will drop out
Juan Foster
Are you a PhD nigger doing his compulsory teaching rounds? If yes, read some pedagogy and maybe psychology.
Jeremiah Bell
Do teachers and professors actually come on he and frog-post?
Bentley Howard
be like walter lewin do some shit in the lecture and sexually harass a girl online
Joshua Powell
also create a youtube channel and solve some problems to upload
Liam Hill
>sexual harassment no such thing
Cameron Ortiz
I didn't say that wasn't the case. I'm just questioning OP's true motivation.
Zachary Sanders
he did nothing wrong
Owen Lee
Make jokes.
William Hall
stop using slides you nigger
Adam Moore
this
John Harris
>using the blackboard The moment a teacher picks up the chalk you just KNOW he didn't prepare anything for the class. Good teacher either prepare everything on their computers or can explain everything without making silly drawings on the blackboard
Chalk makes too much of a mess, I can type 120 words per minute and draw what I want on my drawing tablet. Why should I even bother with the blackboard
Joseph Watson
(((lewin)))
Charles Edwards
I honestly think most charismatic teachers either drink or snort some candy before class.
Julian Edwards
So, what the fuck do you teach?
Aaron Allen
>I've noticed this thing with famous teachers at uni where their classes play more like a "sales pitch"
i despised this as a student. just get down to business. i'm already sitting in your class, you don't need to "sell" anything. stop with the memery
Luke Watson
I'm not really a teacher yet, I'm a PhD nigger doing his compulsory teaching rounds. I'm in a CC program so I get to teach anything that's in it, from Software Engineering to Project Management.
Caleb Morales
Sleep with them. Positive conditioning has shown to be more effective than negative conditioning.
Jaxon Evans
My best teachers were the ones who actually loved their subject and wanted to let other people know about it. I don't think that you truly can force passion onto fields that you don't like.
Blake Walker
Post? Yes. Frogpost? I fucking hope not. I've been on Veeky Forums for 6 years, and I was a master's student back then.
Eli Price
That's because you're an 18-year old sperg. You're the 1%, the other 99% of the class wants to be entertained.
Caleb Cruz
>18-year old
if only.
Connor Torres
Conveying your passion into words requires charisma.
Wyatt Howard
You could be 30 for all I care, my argument stays the same.
Daniel Walker
you don't learn anything if your professor just talks about how great the subject is. i notice a lot of professors have a tendency for doing this without presenting the material in adequate depth. it's the worst kind of teaching style desu.
Jaxson Kelly
Be upbeat and talk in details about the subject and toss in random interesting factoids related to subject.
If you're passionate then charisma comes naturally with it.
Julian Thomas
Old people like to shitpost as much as young people
I've show this place to my advisor and weeks late rhe e-mailed me his "epic" thread
Nathaniel Miller
>If you're passionate then charisma comes naturally with it. Not really, you can be passionate and creepy instead of passionate and charismatic.
Liam Garcia
>Just be yourself That's the worst kind of advice you can give.
Liam Torres
Since you teaching CC your students must have a interest on the pratical stuff you can do w/ what you're teaching. So try to bring more pratical examples of nowadays problems, even if your lectures are purelly theoretical.
If they come to talk w/ you about this in the end of the lecture, you're doing a good job.
Besides that don't worry, this teaching skill will come with time, you're yet a PhD student.
Good Luck CCbro
Parker Williams
How do you can be creepy while talking about fields unrelated to sex?? At worse, your students think that you're eccentric.
Jack Nelson
>Software Engineering to Project Management.
good luck. these are the driest sort of classes i've ever had to take.
Luke Robinson
>How do you can be creepy while talking about fields unrelated to sex By being the average user.
Nathan Flores
I know, they can be very boring classes. Thing is the charismatic and famous teachers can make even these sorts of classes very good
Alexander Taylor
What do you teach?
Leo Jones
See
Matthew Fisher
The best professor i had to this day was a compsci professor (i'm taking a double major). The way he does is very engagin compared to other compsci professors i had. He proproses a problem, then he explains every step of the way in solving the problem, then he presents new functions or a better algorithm to solve the problem, then he increments the problem increasing it's complexity and introducing new functions tinkering with the algorithm. Every step of the way he keeps the class engaged, i mean, he is constantly explaining what he is doing as he is writing the code. I know it sounds a little generic but the way he does is really unique compared to other professors i had.
Ian Cruz
learning software development models is about as exciting as watching paint dry and made me want to pick a different major.
the only thing i can think of is maybe find a few interesting case studies.
Jason Young
I had a professor who couldn't stop talking about his life and the awesome people he knew every single class. He gave a definition or whatever and if it reminded him of someone or something he would never shut up. Don't be this guys, user.
Instead treat the subject itself as something fun and engaging, try to give real life applications of what you're teaching and explain everything like nobody remembers anything they learnt before (this is always true for undergrads). If you just want to be popular, make tests easy as fuck and every student will suck your dick hard and recommend your class to others.
Grayson Evans
Your field obviously isn't heavy on the math.
Jackson Kelly
The easiest way is to be self-deprecating, especially for math. Once the students see that you are a neurotic Jew, they start liking you. Larry David effect.
Joseph Turner
The thing is, is that some students NEED TO WRITE STUFF DOWN DURING LECTURE and DESPISE slide-bore classes.
Evan Parker
There's no panacea, no secret. You just have to work ridiculously hard at understanding both yourself and the people whom you are teaching, to create a channel of communication that is as wide and uninterupted as possible. Think of yourself as Sisyphus, not fucking Bruce Almighty.
don't listen to this nigger faggot
Aaron Brooks
I disagree, I learn much better from improvised lectures on the blackboard. You can prepare and still improvise. Have a list of topics and problems to cover during class, and show the class your thought process as you yourself solve them in real time. That's how you teach a way of thinking and not just polished facts and ideas.
John Morales
If you're a tryhard nerd then don't think about who you're favorite TA was.
If you are a lazy, regular person or you can find one, have them tell you who their favorite TA was.
As a nontryhard, my favorite TA was the one the did all the hard homework problems and did example problems of shit that would pop up on final or midterm.
Tyler Gray
Be masterful
Carson Bennett
I don't know why so many students desperately want to write down everything I say. I always post everything on the class forum a day later anyways.
Blake Sanders
>You can prepare and still improvise. >Have a list of topics and problems to cover during class, and show the class your thought process as you yourself solve them in real time. Fully agree. When I was teaching recitations I'd only write down the problem statement, solve everything ad hoc, and only look at my prepared solution for getting the number's right in the end. I believe that is the way students need you to do it, since it 1. Gives them time to understand what you're doing as you are being slowed down by writing 2. Leads them along the thought processes needed for solving a problem. (Phys1+2 btw)
Samuel Nguyen
>I don't know why so many students desperately want to write down everything I say. Personally I learn better when I write something down than when I just read and/or hear it. I remember hearing about different study types, each of which is better at learning through one of the three. By writing down in lecture you're doing all three at once, so no matter which type you are you will learn. Also it makes it easier not to get distracted, since you've gotta follow what is written on the board.