Category Archives: Teacher Post

by Alan Zhu This story starts with a graph. My co-teacher and I are doing research for our inconveniently named class, “Did We Start the Fire? History from 1949-1989 as Told by Billy Joel’s ‘We Didn’t Start The Fire.’” There’s a very useful website called Genius which has, through the power of crowdsourcing, compiled theContinue reading “spoon homicide: the birth of a meme, and how it (vaguely) relates to teaching history”

by Stuti Khandwala Consider this as a story of how education changed after the lockdown in the eyes of a teacher (who is also a student), as well as an appreciation for one of the biggest student-run clubs at MIT known as the Educational Studies Program (ESP). ESP runs programs throughout the year for middle-schoolContinue reading “On my first ever 125 participant class”

by Audrey DeVault Building a 6-week course from the ground up is a significant undertaking. It’s not something that fits in easily with an already busy schedule, and as such, when my co-teachers and I first considered teaching a course through HSSP, we were hesitant.  We are all rising sophomores at Caltech, and many ofContinue reading “Sometimes Sharks Travel in Packs: on Group Teaching”

by Bil Lewis Dear Blog… My “philosophy” of teaching is based on the idea that I can drive the students crazier than they can drive me. Ha hahaha… But in a serious way, I want the students to be interested, excited in what we’re studying, and laughing. I dress and teach as James Madison (4thContinue reading “A Blog on Teaching”

by Mandar Juvekar Since the start of HSSP many scattered thoughts vaguely related to the program have called my brain home. Some serious, some not as much, these thoughts have helped keep me entertained through an otherwise monotonous summer. Here is a quick highlight reel, with the hope that perhaps one or two of themContinue reading “Scattered Thoughts”

by Cameron Kleiman When Christian and I decided we wanted to teach high schoolers about the novel programming language Julia, I knew we would need a certain amount of infrastructure in order to support our students. One particular interest of mine was making sure our solutions scaled. We opened the class to 50 students, withContinue reading “How we’re teaching high schoolers to code, online”

by Arianna Krinos         In step with the random extra Shark Week TV specials we’ve been blessed with as an unintended positive side effect of the quarantine, this year’s shark-flavored HSSP was an atypical venture into extracurricular education for high school students. With serendipity, my area of study also happens to be Biological Oceanography, and myContinue reading “Dipping My Toes into Online Learning”