CandidProf: teaching isn’t just a job
July 17, 2008 by Miki Saxon
CandidProf is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at a state university. He’ll be sharing his thoughts and experience teaching today’s students anonymously every Thursday—anonymously because that’s the only way he can write really candid posts.
What I do is not just a job. I know a few college professors, and several pre-college teachers who see what they do as just a job. They are not very good at what they do, though. Sometimes, you have to do more than just stand in front of a class and talk.
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