Sometimes one might wonder what grad students actually do get taught 
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I was definitely definitely taught how to write cookie-cutter seminar papers for an audience of one. (I had opportunities for other stuff on my list, but I mostly had to seek those out myself.)
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Amen. I still don’t know/am not confident in my skills of several of these things. I hate trashing my grad program but good god, they did not provide us with professional support.
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I got so much out of my grad. program and picked it because it offered more preparation and support in teaching than any other I applied to. But I still got direct support for only a couple of the things on that list. Meanwhile, I wrote 20+ seminar papers for an audience of one.
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Wait. That stuff doesn’t happen by magic?!?!

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My department offers a "Teaching Practicum" --term long course req'd of our TAs. I've developed it to go beyond "teaching" and intro students to "life in the academy." Once folks see how the sausage is made, they can make better life choices. We address much of this.
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Nice. The teaching practicum I’ve taught also became an “academic life skills” course, if even just by following the concerns and questions of participants. Trying to pack all of this into a single course is important and also futile.
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I often fantasize about the graduate courses I'd teach. They'd be way less about "history of whatever" and way more about "How the fuck do you actually write, submit, revise a journal article?" "How do you do what you're supposed to do in a cover letter in 2 pages?"
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"Where do you go to find job postings?" "How do you design student assignments?" "How do you organize a panel and submit it?" "How do you use citation software actually efficiently?"
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