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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's always been so weird to me that we require all these qualifications to teach elementary and secondary school, but anyone in a PhD program with zero teaching pedagogy is apparently qualified to teach a class. I remember that time of my life when all my friends were TAs... Some of them were really good at it and loved it. Others complained about their students all the time. It's two of the latter that are the only ones I know still teaching--they got tenure. Fancy schools, too. [/quote]

There are people getting their PhDs with no teaching experience and no particular interest in teaching, or at least not in teaching undergraduates, or not in teaching early undergraduates. They get doctorates at fancy schools and are hired by fancy schools and they write really good lectures using the latest knowledge. Then they get tenure, and they keep giving the same lectures until they retire.

That's not all of them, of course. It's not even most of them. But at my undergraduate institution, assistant professors who couldn't teach left. At my graduate institution, assistant professors who didn't publish left. (And by left, I don't mean they jumped. I mean they were pushed.)[/quote]

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