Why Science Majors Change Their Minds (It’s Just So Darn Hard)

[ebarker]

In some of the talks I give to groups I ask "everyone that is a teacher raise your hand" and then I ask "of the teachers here, if you learned how to teach AFTER you left college, raise your hand". Most all teachers learn how to teach after teacher college. In college they learn a lot of stuff, including a lot of learning and teaching theories. They even get to do an internship called student teaching. But the real learning comes later, in the class, after graduation.

In engineering college it is commonly the same. Learning a lot of theory about a lot of stuff. Really learning how to be an engineer often waits until after college, after a lot of work, and hopefully under the mentor ship of a good engineer...hopefully.

So where does an engineering professor learn how to be a professor ?
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