Tony Bendinelli, University of Texas at Austin
"Why Teaching Is Important For Your Research"
STEM graduate students are often encouraged to maximize research and minimize teaching. However, the process of teaching students can provide practice in the application of certain research skills. Feldon et al. (Science, 2011) show that early career graduate students who both teach and do research outperform their counterparts at skills like generating testable hypotheses and designing valid experiments.
