Discussion: How To Be A Good Teacher?

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Discussion topic: How to be a good teacher?

Pang: I want to talk about teaching. I told you that teaching is not as important as research. But it is still very important. I want you think about your favorite teacher one by one? And why that professor or boss in your previous institution was a good teacher?

Student 1: One of my favorite teachers is from my master degree. He teaches Data mining. He used a lot of good examples to let us know how to use the different models; he also made pools like surveys in our class.

Pang: So it’s like his class is more interactive. He let you involve in class.

Student 2: I want to share one of my favorite teachers. He is also an advisor of my major. Beside his knowledgeable, he is trustable, and he set
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That’s would be your job to explain difficult stuff such as teach technical or IT stuffs in IS field to undergraduate students.

Student 4: I’d like to share my favorite teacher. He has different background. I have some background from history during my undergraduate. I kind like the editor of the class. I remember the course named invisible city. He was facing a group of undergraduate. But he never stops with half of class break. He used one slices by another like insert knowledge into your body. This motivates me to be a professor. I want to be a professor that knowledgeable.

Pang: So, You goanna have to be professors/teachers like that. As I said, teaching is not as important as research but still important. You cannot be tenured for becoming a fantastic supper teacher. But you still have to be a good teacher to survive. Here is a kind of the criteria in most of the business schools. You have to get 4.0 out of 5.0 (bottom line) in your teaching evaluation. If your teaching evaluation is range as 4.2 to 4.3 out of 5.0 which is good enough to tenure and the job market. We have to do many different works such as research, teaching, etc. Here is a formula (just consider research and teaching) to evaluate your value to get a job
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I think it is a good idea to teach courses from 3rd year after passing the comprehensive exam become a PhD candidate. I do not think it is a good idea to teach in 4th or 5th year because you have to prepare your job market presentation and dissertation. But the 3rd year is the best time to teach course. At MIS department, you may have to teach data science (but it is not a requirement). You can talk to Sunil or Munir that you are willing to teach in your 3rd year. And you have to prepare about that from now. You can sit in the professors’ class to take some of skills about teaching such how to teach, how to manage classroom, etc. Any question about

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