Teaching isn’t just standing in front of a classroom and talking about formulas

After spending close to three years teaching at the University of Tennessee, I’m inclined to reflect on my time as a GTA. I immediately remember that my teaching experience reaches much farther back than this. Well before I first set foot in a classroom as a traditional teacher, I got my start developing teaching skills as a writer. I’ve had two jobs at the ed-tech startups OpenCurriculum and Expii. I was primarily responsible for creating math and science articles aimed at K-12 students, but I also integrated visuals and videos into the articles I was writing. What this…