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Pedagogy

Teaching students and thoughts on (human) learning and skill building.


  • When should PhD students meet with their advisor? A guide
    [Communication & Learning] Why have meetings with my advisor? This document gives an overview of how I think about when and how often my PhD students need to meet with me and what the substance of those meetings should be.
  • Seek out Opportunities to Mentor
    [Workflow & Process] Mentoring others can be incredibly valuable experience and so opportunities to mentor should be sought out.
  • Action items should have well-defined end conditions
    [Workflow & Process] I try to make sure that my tasks are both easy to start making progress towards and have clear completion criteria, essential criteria for making sure they get done.
  • Reviewing papers is incredibly valuable experience
    [Communication & Learning] Looking at the in-development work of others pulls back the curtain and reveals insight into the thought process of other researchers. Reviews are a largely-untapped pedagogical resource.