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[quote=Anonymous]10:14 re the coveted Princeton teaching award.  How funny--I won that too, LOL!  And took a job at a major research university rather than a LAC (true of all but one of the 4 winners I knew in grad school).  I'd also point out that any winner of that award was one of those terrible grad student instructors who people send their kids to LACs to avoid! Basically, last year's grad student TA can be next year's prof.  And grad students can be very effective undergrad teachers -- they're often highly motivated to do well, they are close enough in age (and were recently at a similar stage) to undergrads that their ability to diagnose what's going wrong (missing piece of info, mistaken assumption) can be much better than a tenured prof's.  And some undergrads will find them more approachable, so seek help earlier.  And they give undergrads a sense of where their studies can lead.  I really valued some of the grad student TAs I had -- am still in touch wit ha couple of them (both tenured at major research universities).[/quote]

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