Abstract:
Selection of prospective faculty members for a joint teaching-research position is often based only on information pertaining to the new Ph.D.s' research ability. Many new Ph.D. graduates have had little if any opportunity to acquire and demonstrate effective teaching skills (Cooper). The necessary skills related to teaching excellence are not developed in the many agricultural economics doctoral programs which focus exclusively on the candidates' understanding and application of subject matter. Offering doctoral students the opportunity to learn to be effective teachers and to apply what they learn to a classroom situation could provide relevant preparation for academic positions. The objectives of this paper are to describe the implementation of a teaching practicum at the University of Georgia and to examine the impacts of graduate student instructors on teaching quality.
Keywords:
graduate student instructors, teaching excellence, doctoral programs, agricultural economics
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