= How to teach {numbered} {scope} {tag=Cirism} {tag=Education} {tag=Teaching method} Off-the-shelf techniques to become a teaching superhero. Customized website idea at: . = Help students achieve their goal {parent=How to teach} This is the [most important of all points]. Don't set goals for your students. Ask students what they want to do, and help them achieve that goal. If they don't know what to do, give suggestions of interesting things they could do. Once they have a goal, just help them learn everything that is needed to achieve that goal If they don't have a goal, any attempt to learn is a total and complete waste of time. This is because the universe of potentially useful things that can be learnt is infinite, and no human can ever learn everything. The only solution, is to try and learn only what seems necessary to reach your goal, and just try to reach your goal instead. This approach is called . Also, setting overly ambitious goals, is a good idea: . "Graduating" and "getting a diploma" are not valid goals, because they are useless. A goal has to be either an amazing specific [technological] or development. = Group students by interest, not by age {parent=How to teach} Grouping by age as done in traditional education as of 2020 is useless. Rather, we should group students by subject of interest; e.g. natural sciences, social sciences, a sport, etc., just like in any working adult organization! This way, younger students can actually actively learn from and collaborate with older students about, see notably 's . This becomes even more natural when you try to give . This age distinction should be abolished at all stages of the system, not only within , but also across , and . This idea is part of the ideal that the learning environment should be more like a environment (AKA , see also ), rather than an amorphous checkbox ticking exercise in bureaucracy so that "everyone is educated". Perhaps, even more importantly, is that we should put much more emphasis on grouping students with other students online, where we can select similar interest amongst the entire population and not just on a per-local-neighbourhood basis. = Let students learn by teaching {parent=How to teach} Tell students to: * make suggestions to the course material themselves, since you have [used text] and [published your source].Review their suggestions, and accept the best ones. * answer the questions of other students on your [online forum]. Let them work instead of you. Praise those that do this very highly, and give them better grades if you have that superpower. This is part of a larger concept holds dear: don't just consume, but also produce. Whatever you do, even if it is playing