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Of all of the reasons to vote for or against a candidate, this ranks among the worst.I don't select my surgeon, my accountants, my professional colleagues, or my cobbler based on the language skills of their spouses.I don't evaluate my kids’ teachers based on the language skills of their spouses.I was just at a conference where I was asked to fill out feedback forms regarding each speaker. The forms did not seek feedback regarding the English language ability of the presenters’ spouses.Finally: if you are talking about applying this to Mrs. Trump, I could make a strong argument that her command of the language far exceeds that of her husband, bigly.

Teaching quality is directly proportional to the effort you put in. Many people who suck at teaching put very little effort in, and criticizing their teaching will inspire them to put in even less effort.Ironically it is the good teachers who are most receptive to feedback, so if you want to deliver criticism, it is better to criticize people who are already pretty good. (If they are serious about improving, they will often have anonymous feedback forms, so you will have plenty of opportunities to speak your mind.) The best targets are teachers who are inexperienced, but have their heart in the right place.

Lecturing: The results you get are directly proportional to the effort you put in. You will magically become a better lecturer if you put a lot of effort into preparing your lectures and write down most of what you will say in advance. (If you want to do an especially good job, rehearse your entire lecture at least once before presenting it.) But if you start writing your lecture the morning of the lecture, or get less than five hours of sleep the night before, you will probably do a shabby job.If your lecture is longer than an hour, it’s good to have a break halfway through the lecture, since students get restless when they have to listen to you for too long. As a bonus, students might come to your desk and ask questions during the break, and then you’ll know what people understood and what they didn’t.Engagement: You will win the hearts of students if you clearly show that you care about them, and want them to have the best possible experience. Two ways you can do this are byActively soliciting feedback from the students. When I was teaching I offered students extra credit for filling out feedback forms every week, and actively changed my teaching style based on what people said in the feedback forms. This was an easy way to both improve my teaching and make people feel heard.Holding extra office hours on weeks when the material is particularly difficult. On some weeks I would hold six hours of office hours because the first students to fill out the feedback form were reporting that they spent longer than usual on the problem set.Backend stuff: Your TAs’ performance is critical to the success of your class. You should of course try to hire TAs who have a solid understanding of the material, and have good teaching evaluations from previous quarters. But you should also set them up for success by making sure you have high-quality solution sets ready before the first office hours of the week. If you don’t do this, many of the TAs will not know how to solve the problems, or will lead students to incorrect or conflicting solutions in office hours.(In general you should produce solution sets yourself instead of relying on TAs to generate them, because TAs will in general write solutions that are very brief and sometimes incorrect. The level of detail in the solution set should be the level of detail expected from the students; it shouldn’t just be a “sketch” of the right answer.)