Rambling thoughts triggered by some comments on the below linky:
Rambling thoughts triggered by some comments on the below linky: I don't buy the not good at it bit. I've had a broad enough range of experiences being taught and teaching and being taught how to teach (specifically in science) that I firmly believe it can be taught and people can learn it. Unfortunately, there are plenty of situations in which people are not interested in or are not facile at teaching and that's really not valued in a lot of places, either. You do what you need to to keep your job, get paid/promoted/tenure, etc. There's also a lot of figure it out for yourself approaches, which is fine if there's time for that, in fact, it's very useful in science, but there's often a very finite span of time available, and that's all you've got. If you don't figure it out by then, tough. There's also an attitude I've come across that I guess I'll describe as the assumption that if you should be doing it, you'll be good at it, a...