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Buochserhorn
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  • Zürich, Schweiz
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How to write horizontally across the blackboard while keeping handwriting as horizontal as possible?
+1 for writing at mouth height! Higher works as well, but anything lower is just terrible. And keep the lines short, 2.5m is absolutely enough! (Easier for you to write and much easier for the students to read.) An addition maybe, I'd like to keep one eye on the upper limit of the board, to check if I'm still parallel.
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In-class, allowing students to address professor informally ('tutoyer' / 'tutear')
I think it would make this person appear more approachable e.g. for questions. On the other hand it might lead to problems when grading students, esp. in oral exams.
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What is the purpose of textbooks?
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Teaching high school mathematics after a pure mathematics PhD
An option, with a sufficient English level, is to teach at international schools. And I suggest you try to get an internship, if you haven't taught yet. As it can be a very demanding job ...
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How to write tedious algebraic manipulations
If you use the math environment in LaTeX, the equations are in a new paragraph and get centered, so they are relatively easy to skip, if you arrange the text around it in a way that does not necessarily require the math. See here: lyx.org/images/about/preview_dvi.png
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How can I avoid being "the negative one" when giving feedback on statistics?
In support of @alephzero's comment, in pedagogy / communication courses I came across the term I-message, which I really like. It's all about: "I don't understand why..." vs. "You must be wrong...". See here for further information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-message
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Where do other countries fall on the US-Europe continuum for PhDs?
At ETH in Zurich it is usually the European version, but in Computer Science they added very recently what they call "Direct Doctorate", see here: inf.ethz.ch/doctorate/direct-doctorate-computer-science.html‌​.
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Planning a course: lecture-by-lecture or topic-by-topic?
We have focused on very different parts of his notion of "continuous". I assumed that, by "writing out all of what I want to say", he doesn't imply saying exactly what he wrote. My notion of continuous planning includes flexibility in wording as well. And I really like your list!
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Planning a course: lecture-by-lecture or topic-by-topic?
@8protons My planning rarely works out, having it planned in a continuous way, leaves me with less / smaller problems.
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Planning a course: lecture-by-lecture or topic-by-topic?
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