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University Professor
Teaches at university level and conducts original research in their field.
Did you know?
After graduating in 1900, Einstein spent almost two years failing to get a teaching job, so in 1902 he became a patent clerk in Bern.
How subjects help
- Research Methods: Design experiments or studies that find out something nobody knew before.
- Communication: Give lectures and talks that make hard ideas exciting for students.
- Literature: Write research papers and books that share new findings with the world.
A famous name
Albert Einstein: Before world fame he taught as a physics professor in Zurich, Prague and Berlin.
Try it yourself: Try a brain dump
- Pick a topic you learned at least a few days ago. Put your book and notes away.
- For five minutes, write or draw everything you can remember about it. It will feel hard, and that is the point.
- Now open your notes and use the coloured pen to add anything you missed or got wrong.
- Write three questions a friend could use to test themselves on the tricky bits, then try your own questions again tomorrow.
Tutors and lecturers build in regular recall practice with feedback, because pulling knowledge out of memory makes it stick better than rereading.
Adapted from The Learning Scientists: Learn how to study using… retrieval practice.
Also try: Teach something in two minutes.
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USA, UK, Germany, Switzerland, Australia