Is it okay to publish less and teach more during your PhD? (CS USA)
There are lots of good teaching-focused jobs in academia, for example faculty positions at small liberal-arts colleges, and lecturer-type positions in larger departments.  It sounds like this kind of job would appeal to you more than a job whose primary focus was research.  That’s great!  Go and learn about those jobs, find people who have taken that career track and talk to them, and start doing what you need to make yourself an appealing candidate for those positions.  Part of that last point is teaching, but it’s not really about teaching more, it’s about doing things that make your CV appealing to SLACs.  You need to do some teaching, but it’s going to look better if you advise an REU student or run a directed reading program than if you just teach one more section of a class you already teach.  See if you can find teaching assignments that add to your CV, eg if you have the opportunity to be instructor-of-record instead of just a TA, do that.  Finally, even if you have teaching-centered career goals, you still need to graduate!  So don’t overstretch yourself teaching at the expense of getting a solid thesis done.  Research expectations are different at SLACs, but they definitely want you to be able to supervise undergraduate projects and they want you to have a PhD, so you can’t neglect that aspect of your program