Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...others, like Gulliver among the breasts of the Brobdingnagian women, will sit my students. It is supposed to help them relax. . . Not long ago Rocky McBeth made a final application to the dean to purchase some old Royal Canadian Air Force parachutes. He wanted to hang them from the classroom ceilings to cover the windows. The aim was to help nervous students let themselves go and concentrate more fully on the arts and sciences...
Rivers partially attributes the success of the Harvard curriculum overhaul to a thorough training program for all doctoral candidate teaching fellows, in which they take a full-credit class on the methodology of language teaching and practice their own techniques in a classroom situation...
...University's greatest weakness: despite Harvard's almost unparalleled reputation as a research institution, too often the nuts-and-bolts aspects of teaching fall into neglect. Graduate students, forced to earn tuition money as teaching fellows (TF's) thus become responsible for much of an undergraduate's classroom experience...
...instruction. Admissions officers frequently find themselves defending the College's instruction against this reputation. And in recent years officials have created a center for the study of teaching, special funds for TF training, and even a university professorship (see accompanying article) with the intention of improving the Harvard classroom experience...
Recently, though, Verba has led a new push on section leaders and now provides funds through his office for lunch meetings between section leaders and professors. He encourages the use of the Danforth Center to improve classroom skills and has instituted an English as a second language program for foreign teaching assistants. The problem, he says, is a significant one and one that will continue to plague administrators and students...