I teach for many reasons in the College of Public Health. It started out as a way to gain some experience and to "test the waters", that is, to see if I wanted to use my degree to teach. It was originally tied to my graduate assistantship. It was my 20 hours or required work. Truth be told, I have never just put in 20 hours a week on any of the classes that I've taught. It's like a whole other job, and one that demands considerable time to make it work. I've had great teachers all of my life and I can only hope they know that they could tell that that "I got it." And usually it was because of their commitment and involvement in the subject material and also in the interest that they had for me as a student. You could always tell who wanted to teach and those who "just did their job." It's hard to be excited in learning about a topic when the instructor is operating on "auto pilot." My graduate assistantship ended some time ago, ...
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