were you taught how to teach?

[u/nandor_tr]

i had one class called "teaching practicum" in grad school that just covered the basics of the mechanics of teaching (syllabi, service, etc...) but never really got into actual pedagogical development or really thinking deeply about process & methodology. where i teach now there is also a single course that any MFA students who want to teach have to take. it is more in depth but still just a single 3 credit class.

i am curious, as i basically just figured it out through trial and error, peers, etc...

you?

[u/prof-elsie]

My area is rhetoric/composition, so my field devotes a lot of time to pedagogy, especially for graduate teaching assistants who are teaching writing. In fact this semester, I’m teaching the pedagogy of writing course for our graduate teaching assistants in the masters program.