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Ask HN: What are you favorite things that your teacher(s) did?

1 points by kabuks ↗ HN
I'm knee deep designing an 8-week curriculum for devbootcamp.com and I want it to be amazing.

I keep thinking back to my favorite teachers, how they used humor, expected the best of me...etc.

What are some of your fondest memories of your teachers? What techniques/attitudes/strategies did they use that really worked for you, and helped you learn?

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bartonfink
I had two teachers in high school - a math and a Latin teacher - who started every class with short warmup exercises. They weren't graded, but covered material from the previous couple of days. The exercises would take roughly 5 minutes, and then we'd spend 5 more minutes "grading" them and handling short ?'s before segueing into that day's lesson.

I think it was one of the best teaching techniques I ever saw, and if I ever go back to my old dream of teaching I intend to use it. It kept everybody on a short feedback loop. This ensured that students knew whether they really "got" a subject and that the teachers knew where they needed to spend more time.