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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a top SLAC and the next year entered an MA program at Hopkins in a humanities department. At 22, I was a TA for an undergrad writing class. I say TA — but I was responsible for devising a syllabus, conducting all classes, writing final exams, deciding grades. Ostensibly, we TAs (I think there were 8 or so of us in my department) reported to a supervisor. But we were the teachers. I put alot of time and effort into teaching that class, but it never failed to amaze me that parents were paying for me, an unwitting 22-year-old, to teach their kids and determine their grades. At my SLAC, my teachers were professors, and were astonishingly good. Most of my classes had under 15 or 20 people in them. I sent my kids to SLACs. [/quote] This is department dependent. At Hopkins, PhD Econ professors teach the economics courses. The large Micro/Marco Principles classes have a once a week session that is run by a graduate student TA but the professor tells the TA's what to cover. Usually it's giving more examples of what is taught in class, or going over homework problems, or exams. The only econ courses that were even close to being designed by a graduate student are a couple of summer course opportunities given to top grad students (as a stipend reward opportunity) who compete to apply. When I got this opportunity, the professor provided me with their entire syllabus and class notes....I could make whatever edits I wanted...but this was FAR from driving the bus. I'd be crazy not to take advantage of all the work that had already been done - since learning the specialty enough to teach it and then teaching each class is enough work. If we wanted to craft our own course - we'd get hired as adjunct at local colleges like Loyola - usually in micro/macro principles. I also had friends that were grad students in engineering and lab sciences. They also were not doing anything close to what this other person is describing. They usually taught a support/discussion section or helped to run the lab that went with the course. We didn't know English or History grad students...maybe it's different? [/quote]
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