You Can Over-Teach and Get Punished
fiona:
Very good article for newbies, especially.
http://chronicle.com/article/Good-Deeds-That-Are-Most/130649/
The Fiona
ptarmigan:
One of the interesting things we were told in our multiple-day university-wide TA orientation - and we were told this more than once - was that even though we were expected to do our teaching jobs, we were here to get degrees, not to teach. It's so easy to procrastinate other work with teaching "stuff" because there is really no limit to how much teaching stuff you can do.
educator1:
One of the most serious punishments for non-tenured TT folks can be the denial of tenure for focusing too much on teaching. About ten years ago we had a new TT faculty member come with a lot of great ideas for improving our required courses. We worked together to make significant and helpful improvements to the courses and how the department conducted them. I felt terrible two years later when my colleague was told that tenure would not be possible, partly due to the fact that too much attention was being paid to teaching and not enough to research.
isaacsweeney:
It's as if people think the primary purpose of higher ed institutions is to educate students .....
Oh wait .......
larryc:
Quote from: fiona on February 06, 2012, 09:19:04 PM
Very good article for newbies, especially.
Yes, excellent. Teaching offers immediate needs (gotta get those papers graded!) and short-term gratification (you nailed that lecture today!) that can quickly push your research to the back burner. Then you wake up one day and are a terminal ABD, or have been denied tenure. It almost happened to me!
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