Exciting news on your teaching! You'll have the opportunity to impact lives, and I'm sure you'll take that charge seriously. I enjoy connecting with college students each year through the CFA Institute's Research Challenge; such a great opportunity for them to learn about working on a team to develop a succinct research report - and then present it in front of a panel of judges and an audience. While all students are not that serious and passionate about the subject you're teaching, some will be. Good luck reaching and inspiring them!
Congratulations on the teaching role! As a « wannnabe » teacher myself (one day, when I will finally have time for it) I would be very interested in a post discussing how you prepared for the course, what you included in the curriculum, and perhaps a few “tricks” to keep students engaged and interested. I always fantasize that I would sneak a lot of Berkshire Hathaway university into the official curriculum, and I know you share a lot of that way of thinking, so I am curious about what you include/exclude within the guidelines the university gives you. Thank you and keep up the good work!
Great idea, thanks! Having taught one course already, I will say that it's more difficult to sneak in Berkshire-type stuff into general intro courses. You'll have a few students who love it, but you also have to consider the non-finance/investing people in the class who just need to pass the course - i.e. just want you to teach the textbook. The higher level classes are more self-selecting and you can introduce more non-textbook material.
Exciting news on your teaching! You'll have the opportunity to impact lives, and I'm sure you'll take that charge seriously. I enjoy connecting with college students each year through the CFA Institute's Research Challenge; such a great opportunity for them to learn about working on a team to develop a succinct research report - and then present it in front of a panel of judges and an audience. While all students are not that serious and passionate about the subject you're teaching, some will be. Good luck reaching and inspiring them!
Thanks, Steve!
Congratulations on the teaching role! As a « wannnabe » teacher myself (one day, when I will finally have time for it) I would be very interested in a post discussing how you prepared for the course, what you included in the curriculum, and perhaps a few “tricks” to keep students engaged and interested. I always fantasize that I would sneak a lot of Berkshire Hathaway university into the official curriculum, and I know you share a lot of that way of thinking, so I am curious about what you include/exclude within the guidelines the university gives you. Thank you and keep up the good work!
Great idea, thanks! Having taught one course already, I will say that it's more difficult to sneak in Berkshire-type stuff into general intro courses. You'll have a few students who love it, but you also have to consider the non-finance/investing people in the class who just need to pass the course - i.e. just want you to teach the textbook. The higher level classes are more self-selecting and you can introduce more non-textbook material.
Congrats on the teaching position, now you’ll be up in my neck of the woods
For what it's worth, while it's interesting to read about US companies, I have a strong preference and bigger interest in UK companies