I would like to thank those who have responded to our previous posting on the topic 'Graduate/Research Students Teaching at Your University'. It is very useful to learn from your experience in supporting graduate teaching assistants.
However, we are exploring the issue from the perspective of mandating graduate students to teach.
Specifically, we would like to know the following:
(1) Is it a policy at your university that ALL graduate students take up some teaching responsibilities?
(2) If teaching is mandated for graduate students at your University, what is the level of teaching load? Does it affect the duration of study in any way? Is the teaching duties rewarded in any way (e.g. academic credits / salary on top of stipend)?
(3) What is the feedback of students to a policy of mandatory teaching (if it exists)?
Nancy Lee
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