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Graduate programs often insufficiently prepare their students for academic teaching careers, write Benjamin Rifkin, Rebecca S Natow, Nicholas P Salter, and Shayla Shorter for The Chronicle of Higher Ed. After surveying a selection of history, psychology, and biology doctoral programs in the US, the authors found that few programs required students to take credit-bearing courses on teaching.
Complaints about the lack of attention to teaching in Ph.D. programs are legion — mainly about the perceived disconnect between what we are trained to do in graduate school and what we are expected to do in the college classroom. After years of calls for reform, we wondered, is that disconnect still the case? Plenty of essays, social-media posts, and books like Jonathan Zimmerman’s The Amateur Hour have tackled the lack of formal training that professors receive on teaching.
Complaints about the lack of attention to teaching in Ph.D. programs are legion — mainly about the perceived disconnect between what we are trained to do in graduate school and what we are expected to do in the college classroom. After years of calls for reform, we wondered, is that disconnect still the case? Plenty of essays, social-media posts, and books like Jonathan Zimmerman’s The Amateur Hour have tackled the lack of formal training that professors receive on teaching.
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