What is the hell is going on. There has been online and pre-online home school cirriculums around for ages. Why are "real" teachers having such a hard time.
And, as with all organizations, the goal is to keep the system rolling along with as little energy expenditure as possible. So even if you have people who are interested in changing the horrible status quo that they’ve been handed (ie, new teachers, although certainly not all of them), there is no incentive to do so and probably no or a very weak apparatus to support them
The incentive and apparatus actually very much work against being a decent teacher, atleast with any mixed assignment (teaching + research faculty). For those sorts of faculty, the issue of paramount importance is bringing grant money in, followed a ways by producing research paper output, and only the most perfunctory of teaching.
Spending a lot of time to improve your teaching at the expense of research+grants will absolutely torpedo your tenure changes.
What is the hell is going on. There has been online and pre-online home school cirriculums around for ages. Why are "real" teachers having such a hard time.
College Professors don't have any sort of mandatory training in pedagogy. Subject matter expert = Qualified teacher no questions asked.
And, as with all organizations, the goal is to keep the system rolling along with as little energy expenditure as possible. So even if you have people who are interested in changing the horrible status quo that they’ve been handed (ie, new teachers, although certainly not all of them), there is no incentive to do so and probably no or a very weak apparatus to support them
The incentive and apparatus actually very much work against being a decent teacher, atleast with any mixed assignment (teaching + research faculty). For those sorts of faculty, the issue of paramount importance is bringing grant money in, followed a ways by producing research paper output, and only the most perfunctory of teaching.
Spending a lot of time to improve your teaching at the expense of research+grants will absolutely torpedo your tenure changes.