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When students choose to attend Harvard, their decision is often based in part on the world-class reputation of the faculty. Yet enormous power over the Harvard classroom experience is normally wielded to the graduate students and other community members who lead discussion sections as teaching fellows. With TFs ranging from the lively and dedicated to the sullen and non-English-speaking, some students feel that the choice of a TF can have even more influence over their overall satisfaction—and grade—than the professor...
...teachers, and students should be able to expect that their instructors’ ability has been tested prior to their selection. After being hired, TFs should also receive training so that they can improve their teaching before they ever meet their first student in the classroom. Currently, TFs can attend seminars given at the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, a Faculty of Arts and Sciences-sponsored facility that offers one-on-one training in teaching skills. Because each department sets its own policies for the recruitment and training of TFs, not all TFs are required to undergo training...
...work on Father's Day. And he tells any new employer to forget it if the hours aren't flexible. The occasional girlfriend comes and goes--and stays gone. "Too time consuming," he shrugs. But what's to regret when you can play hopscotch, stage pillow fights and attend 96 parenting classes in four years? Raising daughter Sarah, 6, is "my greatest job," he says. "I put my life on stop, and I don't regret...
...Once on board, travelers should feel safer. The measure mandates that flight deck doors must be strengthened and kept locked during flights. More air marshals will travel on planes; their presence will be required on certain flights deemed "high risk." Pilots and crew will attend training courses on how to deal with hijackers, and the Transportation Department can authorize the use of weapons in cockpits. (United Airlines is ahead of the curve on that count; this week the company made stun guns available to its pilots...
...most ideal program from our standpoint would be for the TF to attend our one or two-day orientation at the beginning of the semester, and then for them to come in with their class and be taped,” said Bok Center Director James D. Wilkinson...