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 As a graduate student at the very beginning of what I hope to be a teaching career, I have to admit that this article has exposed one of my greatest fears -- that of losing control of a class. I believe Prof. Minner is quite correct in pointing to the lack of pedagogy instruction as one of the chief causes of a classroom gone out of control. In the two departments I have studied in as a graduate student, formal pedagogy classes have not been offered. It is expected that I will learn to teach by observing my professors and by trial and error. But, I feel this is highly inadequate. In my many years as a teaching assistant, I have had the good fortune to work with several talented professors, and I have always made a point of sounding them out on teaching tactics, etc. The wide variety of answers I receive continues to prove to me again and again that this method of training is just providing me with a very superficial scraping from the field of pedagogy. To be quite honest, I don't know if I would always recognize if my interactions with students were setting off bad behaviors. My question is: If K-12 teachers must learn pedagogy and psychology of learning before they can be certified to teach, why aren't those of us going into higher ed. required to do the same?
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