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I had a small shred of teaching experience before entering grad school, but many of my fellow students did not, and it mattered not even a little bit. …

In many cases, there is no incentive, beyond "The Chair told you you're teaching X" and X is inherently a large class. … Finally, teaching a large class potentially has a larger impact on the way the department works than a smaller class. …

As a professor teaching a class, and - by extension - a former student, I'll give a few reasons why I will never ban electronics/laptops in my class, even if they're classes that don't need them (banning …

The best you're going to get out of a classroom joke like this is a light chuckle. The worst is that you've badly offended a student. The risk:reward ratio is pretty heavily biased toward "Just don' …

The idea that teaching is something that invariably and inexorably damages ones research and study prospects to be entirely opposed to my actual experience. … Some teaching experiences are nothing but time sinks that devour otherwise productive periods and leave you no closer to having finished, or produced interesting work. …

I think the appropriateness of such a policy depends on the class and the students within it, and even when it exists, I'd consider flexing it for extraordinary circumstances. For example, I once had …

There are a number of reasons why a department would want to teach their own version of a class, even if it's very similar to a course taught by another department: They think they can do it better. …

textbooks are huge (about 500 pages) so students prefer to use notes which is clean, short, and summarized There are several dangers to this - first, the clean, short, summarized notes don't ha …

First, there may very well be policies in place to handle this, so I would check those first, in case your hands are tied in some way. Generally speaking however, I'm fairly permissive with medical a …

In my experience undergraduates vastly overestimate the impact of their evaluations, rather than the other way around. If you were to do this - and I think it's fine to do - I think a slightly more o …

I think the key to a forum being somewhat lively, at least from my experience, is a blend of the following: There needs to be instructor/TA participation in the forum itself. This is both a boost to …

One works at a major research university in a 50% hard money position, which comes with a teaching load of one graduate level class per semester. … For example, in the liberal arts, there are a large number of positions that are teaching centric, while medical schools often have a vast number of faculty whose positions will never involve teaching. …

Since this is a hypothetical, I'll note that I had a professor who included in his contract for the book an agreement for 15 copies of the book every other year (he taught a small upper-level undergra …

If you're at an institute with a light teaching burden for your PhD students, it stands to reason that there may not be all that much teaching for the faculty to do. … Basically, it doesn't need to kill your application, but you should be able to articulate what direction you will go in the future for research, teaching and grant writing. …

There are likely policies on taping or recording lectures, but as with many policies, they will likely vary by institution. More importantly than that, if you're going to tape or record someone, it's …