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Definitely. That's another type of course that I hope to avoid having to teach. The ideal course has only students that are relaxed, engaged, well-prepared, and
by knzhou 6y ago
Definitely. That's another type of course that I hope to avoid having to teach. The ideal course has only students that are relaxed, engaged, well-prepared, and who actually want to be there.
- Loughla 6y agoAre you working in higher ed yet? Because for 99.999% of new faculty, your experience will be as follows: Adjunct (part-time) teaching of introductory courses to earn your stripes (students definitely don't want to be in this class, and you will need a second and/or third job). Full-time teaching of introductory courses after 5-7 years of part-time, because now you're not tenure track, and you still have to earn your stripes. Full-time, tenure track teaching of introductory courses with a couple of 300 levels thrown in to test your merits during the 3 year tenure process. Tenured full time faculty status, teaching where you finally get to teach the classes that students want to take. It's a garbage system.
- ipunchghosts 6y agoI can agree with the "it's a garbage system" sentiment. I think its even worse in engineering fields because many of the non-tenured faculty are incentivized to be that good -- if they were good, they would be working in industry making at least double of what they make now.
- knzhou 6y agoI'm a graduate student. Yes, I know about all of this -- I'm holding out hope to be one of the 0.001%. ;-) They do exist!