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From: shaver@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Dave Shaver)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Student and Course Integrity
Message-ID: <364@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 21 Dec 88 15:35:49 GMT
Reply-To: shaver@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu.UUCP (Dave Shaver)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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Daniel Yaron Kimberg writes:

>I don't see any good reason to
>suppose that professors are better than graduate students at teaching material
>that they know equally well.
		^^^^^^^
(My comments rest upon this idea.)

In some cases the graduate student will do a BETTER job.  I base this
on the fact that some professors do not WANT to teach intro courses.
Often they would rather teach a higher-level course in their area.

Thus, the graduate student who is trying to get teaching experience
might spend more time prepairing for the class and discussing the
details.  Plus the graduate student probably has less teaching load
than a professor.

This is only a theory.  Flames > /dev/null

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