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Obtaining pedagogical skills during your tenure track - time well spent or wasted? If you're on tenure track it is likely that your university requires you to "develop" your teaching and supervision skills. There are actually three main ways to improve your teaching and supervision skills: Simply teach and supervise - Learning by doing Discuss with your colleagues and TAs - Peer support Get inspiration  Pedagogical courses on teaching and supervision Learning by doing By far the best way to learn something is to do it. If you do and you are interested about your doings that will be the most important sources of your future success. Of course, you cannot learn anything new if you don't do things differently. Therefore, below a few ideas. Teaching experiments Do controlled experiments to explore new knowledge. That means that Every implementation of the same course must always be a bit different from the previous! What you change can be anything. Remov...