Re: Re: Re: Re: farewell to academe

[Jim Devine]

At 10:00 AM 3/6/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Michael Yates wrote:
>
>>Two comments:  Most teachers are not
>>very good at it and do not take the time to learn how to teach
>>effectively.

Doug writes:
>Do any graduate programs actually teach people how to teach?

At UC-Berkeley in the 1970s, there was a program encouraging better 
teaching by teaching assistants (of which I was one).  It involved videoing 
one's teaching, etc., so one could learn from one's errors. (Harvard 
economics had a similar program, I learned later.) It was voluntary, so 
naturally I abstained. That decision contributed to my being canned by 
Occidental College in 1984, because my teaching "wasn't good enough." Of 
course, there were other things going on there (like ideological conflict).

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine