I’ve advised one person to skip the fellowship and do the readings at an accelerated pace on their own and talk to other organizers about it.
This seems like good advice. In general I think fellowship curricula are pretty great resources regardless of whether you’re actually doing the fellowship or not, so one low-effort change could just be to tell people “you can do this fellowship, or if you’re really excited about spending much more time on this, you can just speedrun all the readings”.
In fact, maybe the best option is for those people to do both. E.g. do all the readings up front, but still have ongoing fellowship sessions over the next 8 weeks to have higher-fidelity communication/make sure they have interpreted the readings in the right way/answer relevant questions.
(epistemic status: not strong opinions, since I don’t have much context on student EA groups right now)
This is interesting! I would be curious to try having one ‘accelerated’ group that operates on a faster timeline—but I imagine this would require more coordination/commitment from organizers (e.g., really frequent 1:1s to engage them and check understanding).
This seems like good advice. In general I think fellowship curricula are pretty great resources regardless of whether you’re actually doing the fellowship or not, so one low-effort change could just be to tell people “you can do this fellowship, or if you’re really excited about spending much more time on this, you can just speedrun all the readings”.
In fact, maybe the best option is for those people to do both. E.g. do all the readings up front, but still have ongoing fellowship sessions over the next 8 weeks to have higher-fidelity communication/make sure they have interpreted the readings in the right way/answer relevant questions.
(epistemic status: not strong opinions, since I don’t have much context on student EA groups right now)
This is interesting! I would be curious to try having one ‘accelerated’ group that operates on a faster timeline—but I imagine this would require more coordination/commitment from organizers (e.g., really frequent 1:1s to engage them and check understanding).
I like that idea too! Maybe could start after a few weeks to gauge interest?