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Richard Feynman on Teaching: The Dignified Professor
"I would never accept any position in which somebody has invented a happy situation for me where I don't have to teach. Never."
The Irascible Professor
Irreverent commentary about the state of education in America today, by a veteran of more than 30 years in public higher education.
Fear 101
by Elizabeth Bobrick, Salon, September 1, 1999. "Seasonal teaching anxiety reduces the most experienced professors to raw nerves and nightmares."
Handbook on Teaching Undergraduate Science Courses: A Survival Training Manual
by Gordan Uno. Covers everything you need to know about teaching undergraduate science classes. NextWave gives it two enthusiastic thumbs up.
TA's as the Key to Science Teaching
"In 1997, Elaine Seymour was one of the authors of Talking About Leaving: Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences (Westview). She found that a reason cited by student after student — at a range of institutions — was poor teaching. And at many institutions, teaching assistants were a major part of the problem."