Dive Brief:
- Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu write that many faculty members at U.S. colleges have never taken a course on how to teach.
- They write that many adjuncts especially are unlikely to have participated in even a workshop to improve their teaching.
- In order to push for change, Ehrlich and Fu recommend that high-school students and their parents ask whether faculty members at a college have taken a course on effective teaching.
Dive Insight:
Another problem that Ehrlich and Fu only briefly touch on is that experts in their fields do not necessarily make the best teachers. So choosing faculty based on their success as graduate students or Ph.D. candidates can be a recipe for disaster in the classroom.