<p>Five</a> Berkeley faculty honored for exceptional teaching</p>
<p>^What metrics are used in deciding the winners?</p>
<p>B/C I feel Babak should get an award for his exceptional EE20N teaching, but I haven’t heard lectures from any of these other professors though.</p>
<p>I thought you wouldn’t find anything like any of them at Berkeley, sakky?</p>
<p>When did I ever say that there were zero good teachers at Berkeley?</p>
<p>The real issue is not whether there are some good teachers at Berkeley, but rather whether faculty are properly rewarded for good teaching. The fact of the matter is - and a point surely with which even the most diehard Berkeley fanatic would readily agree - a mediocre teacher who is a superstar researcher is far more likely to be promoted to tenure than is a superstar teacher who is a mediocre researcher. Surely many of us had suffered the displeasure of having to take a class taught by some mediocre teachers, but whom Berkeley would never fire because, well, they have a strong research CV laden with heavily-cited pubs.</p>
<p>I don’t think I’d agree with Babak being on the list. He’s a good lecturer but the lecture material and problem sets are just recycled every semester and his class is basically ran by his TAs and GSIs anyways.</p>