Do all graduate students have to teach a course on their own? In my department we have to work as a teaching assistant. Do you guys have to teach your own courses?

In my department it is a requirement that you teach for at least a year. This is normally satisfied by being a teacher's assistant, though some graduate students try to teach their own courses. Teaching your own courses it not a requirement.

Being a TA this semester, I do agree with the requirement for graduate students to be TA's. Not only does it give us invaluable experience as professional faculty members, but it presents us with the challenge of actually teaching the material we are so familiar with, dealing with undergrads who are not always easy to deal with, and having an extraordinary amount of self-discipline that graduate courses themselves do not require (although they are rough).

I agree that some teaching experience is both necessary and important. I'm at a graduate-only institution, so we don't have TA's b/c there are no undergrads, but I really wish that we did. I taught a little in undergrad, but it's purely research here, and I feel like only one-sided exposure might make for some soggy future faculty.

I guess it depends on if you plan to continue teaching or not, although it still looks great on a C.V. to say you taught your own course. I would definitely take an opportunity like that, in your position.

A very good post and certainly these are points really useful.

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