Perhaps offering generic advice

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Section Perhaps offering generic advice

A new faculty member distilled the following advice from multiple conversations with an experienced faculty member:

Don’t answer a question the students don’t have yet

Find ways to make it safe for students to say in class “I don’t know”

Recognize that students are smarter than you think they are; they just know less than you think they do.

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