Questions tagged [teaching]
This tag is related to the role and duties of a teacher, an academic instructor, tutor or a teaching assistant.
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How much does video broadcasting on youtube benefit you academic life?
Recently, I was working on implementing a new optimization approach to publish a paper. Additionally, I've also implemented the other famous existed methods in the area in order to demonstrate the ...
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How much time should I spend to prepare to teach a class?
In the last few years,
I've taught a course which was developed by my colleagues.
The first year, I spent about 6 hours a week
preparing for a 3-hour lecture.
I'm currently teaching a course for the ...
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What gets included for Continuing Professional Development?
When you are asked to list what continual professional development (CPD) you have completed in the previous 12 months, where do you draw the line on what gets included?
I would think attending a ...
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Creative Ways of Getting Teaching Experience
Here is my situation, I'm about to graduate with a Ph.D. within the next few months. My dissertation is done, so I can dedicate quite a bit of time to the issue I'm describing.
At the moment, I ...
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What can PhDs offer to high school teaching that Masters graduates can't?
I refer only to academic PhDs, not doctorates in education. Many swanky fee-paying schools in England and the US hire PhDs as teachers. So what qualities are likely unique to PhDs and may not be ...
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Alternative ways to use lecture time when only one quarter of the students can attend?
In the upcoming semester, we are going to organise and hold a beginner’s lecture with some peculiar restrictions (due to the COVID-19 crisis):
We can use a lecture hall at two 90-minute slots per ...
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Who reads teaching evaluations?
At the end of each semester, usually a month before final exams, my school (in the US) distributes teaching evaluations. What people will read these? Do people only see these after the final grades ...
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Are learning by reading from a textbook compared to listening to lectures different roads to same goal
I have seen few people who learn better(or mostly) by reading textbooks themselves in private as that gives them more time to think back and forth about the material. While there are other students ...
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Should Ph.D. students interested with research remain as research assistant until they find a research position or just find any job?
As faculty or postdoc positions at top schools are getting hard to land, should Ph.D. students interested with research continue to work as research assistants and publish more, or try to get a ...
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In US universities, how much academic information does a professor have about graduate students enrolled in his classes?
Does he know immediately (from some internet / intranet access) which students in his classes are undergraduates, masters students, PhD students, non-degree students? Does he typically have access to ...
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Teaching philosophy with a PhD in math
I am currently in a PhD program for math in the US studying mathematical logic, and I plan to pursue a teaching career at a university after I finish my degree. Philosophy has always been a side ...
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Would it be acceptable to report a professor for poor teaching / attitude in a Masters graduate course?
I would like some advice about a specific professor in my program of study. I seriously feel that this professor has a problem teaching graduate students. On more than one instance, class was let out ...
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Efficient use of the class time when all lectures are already on Youtube
I am teaching an obligatory course to undergraduates. There are about 160 registered students, divided into four classes of forty. Each class is three academic hours.
Last year, my lectures have been ...
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Is it ethical to use already existing material to complement teaching?
As background, I have a MSc in Chemical Engineering, and I am currently teaching in one of the first Fachhochschule-type institutes that have been established in my country. This institute stands as ...
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Take non-tenure track position or wait? [closed]
I am currently considering offers for non-tenure track teaching-oriented positions (full-time, multi-year contracts) and wanted to get advice on whether to take the offer now, or wait another cycle to ...
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What is the proper way to judge the quality of education of a university?
Why do Russian and Israeli universities score low in various world rankings?
In this question, most of the answers more or less stated that, rankings of universities available on the net are kind of ...
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Make Up Tests: Should I alter the questions?
I'm teaching a unit this semester that involves an in-class test. The students will be required to conduct a textual analyse of a video using the themes/unit literature etc to help formulate their ...
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How does "buying out" of teaching work? [duplicate]
Several times I have met young visiting faculty members who got "bought out" of teaching. This means that some senior professor opened their grant treasure chest and pays money so their younger co-...
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How to motivate students to debug their work independently
For the last few semesters, I have taught a graduate-level course (mixture of Master's and PhD students) that has a very substantial data analysis component in which every assignment involves ...
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Teaching duties in Italy for researchers, associate professors, and full professors
What are the teaching duties in Italy for researchers (RTDa & RTDb), associate professors, and full professors?
In particular, I'd be interested to know, for each position, the number of courses/...
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Would going to Teacher's College be useful, if my ultimate goal is to become a university math professor?
I am close to entering the fifth year of a five-year Concurrent Education program. What the program involves is four years spent working on a bachelor’s degree, while “on the side” taking education ...
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How to represent a tensor/matrix/vector/array in blackboard? [closed]
While teaching in the blackboard, I find it difficult to represent a vector/matrix/tensor. In latex, we represent $\mathbf{x}$. But, how do we represent it while writing in chalk? Is it okay to write ...
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homework testing method for schools - how to encourage good practices and design and reduce reliance on proofreading?
I've looked a lot for this kind of question and couldn't find anything,
I think the answers here could be helpful to schools.
My collage has problems with it's homework testing system and I'd like ...
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progressing from high school teaching into academia
I have been a high school teacher for coming on 14 years, in 8 schools, in 2 countries. While teaching still is enjoyable, I feel with the near completion of my PhD (in physics), that I am ready for a ...
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Is there an American alternative to the PGCE?
The UK offers a Post Graduate Certificate of Education which certifies teachers domestically and is useful in the international school system.
As an American teaching abroad, I am looking for an ...
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How to decide whether the amount of study material provided to students is enough?
Arguably the most time-consuming component of teaching is preparation of study material (especially when in comes to a fresh lecturer of a new module).
First of all, every presentation should have ...
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Should I do Master or PhD to teach in community college?
I currently have Bachelors in Economics and Math, and I'm doing full-time research in Economics right now.
My initial plan was to do PhD in Economics and work in academia, but after doing research, ...
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Professor doesn't respond to notice of inability to take a test in his class
I currently have a concussion that has hindered my ability to do work or study. I went to the doctor and got it diagnosed (got a medical note and all that). I have a midterm tomorrow, and I emailed my ...
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How is PGCHE by distance learning viewed relative to in-class?
I've been told by some that online or distance learning PGCHE's (post grad certificate in higher education - basically a certificate in teaching), and distant learning in general, is seen as not ...
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Return midterm exam paper or not
I wonder how common for professors to return scored midterm papers to students when the final is not accumulative? I want to reuse some of the questions next year and also is not willing to spend ...
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Answering Ambiguous or Outright Preposterous Questions
Given the premise of any form of testing is the evaluation of one's knowledge in comparison to the population (i.e. class) as a whole and a set body of knowledge (i.e. syllabus).
How does one ...
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Software tools for orgainising education lab appointments
Due to the Coronavirus situation it is required to adapt teaching activities to reduce risk of infection. Several courses have laboratory assignments that require physical presence. It is therefore ...
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Differences in student load at liberal arts colleges vs. research universities
Do students at liberal arts universities have 'harder' courses than students at research universities?
Computer Science curricula at large research universities have 5 to 6 courses per semester. The ...
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Can auditing students attend consultation hours?
Assume a university allows students to audit classes informally, so they're not enrolled and don't pay, but they attend classes anyway. Obviously, no one has obligation to allow these students to ...
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Why do educators use curve to adjust the performance?
It bothers me when I tries to remember how many highschools or universities use curve to adjust the final grade for their student based on the class average.
I know failing the entire class would be ...
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Faculty member brought sick (feverish) child to class - is this unethical? [closed]
A faculty member recently brought their young child to a graduate seminar. The child had a fever -- and therefore was deemed not healthy enough to be at school. The faculty member did not ask the ...
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Getting a Mentor
I'm starting my Maths undergrad and I've been told by several people (other, older students, mainly) that I should really apply myself at getting a "mentor", finding a good teacher/researcher and ...
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Course assessment for programming courses
Next year,
I will be teaching a course that has a significant programming component.
While I have taught other courses before,
it will be my first time teaching a programming course.
Consequently, I ...
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Are there still teaching professor positions in Western Europe in Biology/Env Sciences? [closed]
It seems that I can't find any evidence of just teaching positions in universities across Europe, aside from the temporary position for a semester or two. I am mainly interested in Italy, France, ...
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Has the student responsibility for not cheating? [closed]
If a student is cheating, he can be caught or not caught.
If he is caught, it's not obvious what to do.
There are options with different strategies:
The students are themselves responsible for not ...
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