Show Graduate schools fail in teaching techniques From Intercollegiate Press Cape schools are doing- practically nothing- in the way of specifically training college teachers for classroom according to C. F. Marshall of the social science department of Southeast Missouri State Teachers Marshall stated that the only preparation the prospective college teacher can is graduate teaching but even in such a job he has to learn mostly through trial and as there is no formal supervision of his At least one graduate he points has taken note of this As a result of replies to some inquiries sent college the University of recently called a conference on desirable curricular the graduate school can do a job in turning out college Marshall there to be some sort of general agreement on what qualities a good college teacher should and what knowledge is in any given Stating that he had found much of his own graduate work unusable in the he urged a common core-curriculum in Marshall closed his remarks with some suggestions as to what a college might do to improve its own Among these he included student evaluation of and the checking of the curve of each instructor's grades against both the college's theoretical standard and the composite of all grades actually |