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ThisCharmingMan · Joined: 11 Jan 2004

I've worked with both dullards and entertainers and they ALL got compliments, "I think ______ is a good teacher!" at one point or another.

sparkx · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: thekimchipot.com

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Catch Me If You Can...

desultude · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject:

Some of the best liked teachers in my program do not have M.A.s (and haven't faked them, either). On the other hand, we have had some teachers here with M.A.s who cannot teach at all.

In graduate school in the U.S. we are not taught to teach (unless it is specifically a teaching program, and even then I wonder sometimes Wink

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I watch the people who are considered the best teachers, and realize how much of it is personality, not learning, that makes them so. And I don't mean being the class clown and giving them candy- I mean caring about the students, having real enthusiasm, and being responsible and prepared. These qualities are not learned in graduate school.

I have an M.A., but that doesn't mean that I think that all University instructors must have them. My M.A. in an unrelated topic has given me a credential which I have been able, so far, to parlay into a good job. The teaching part of it is up to me.

As for the fool at Konkuk, well, he had a good dance, now its time to pay the piper. And, yes, it reflects badly on all of us. One thing I sense here is that we are often judged collectively. The screw-ups of my colleagues make me look bad.

manlyboy · Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 9:11 pm Post subject:

slothrop · Joined: 03 Feb 2003

Cedar · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:49 am Post subject:

TJ · Joined: 10 Mar 2003

I knew a Korean professor who was head of the english department of his university (I won't say where). He told me he had a PhD in English literature. His english was so bad I wouldn't have given him a certificate let alone a PhD. What's more, he couldn't even set out a formal letter. He was continually asking me to 'edit' his work.

I very much doubt his qualification was real !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lawyertood · Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2004 9:17 pm Post subject:

Thanks to this imposter my university is requiring us to submit proof of matriculation. We also are required to take a physical/blood test for drugs as one of our teachers was fired this semester for marijuana use. No worries on my part but it is an inconvenience.

Bbang! · Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Location: Seoul

Let's see:

This dude was a bellhop at who managed to fake a PhD, land himself a teaching job at a university, haul in over 68,000,000 won in one year, and score himself some of the green stuff.

I have a real degree, have the ridiculous student loan debt to prove it, teach in a hogwan, and will pull in roughly a third of what he did. AND I haven't had a sniff of weed in a very long time.

Who's the chump? I sure feel like one.

I'll feel better when he's in jail and I'm not.

Derrek · Joined: 15 Jan 2003