Word: classroom
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...curricular review—to give students a global perspective. Over 20 members of campus groups, from Ballet Folklorico to Harvard Model United Nations, put on four workshops for the girls. While a panel of three international students answered questions and helped the girls decorate mock passports in one classroom, another shook as students in Gumboots and Ballet Folklorico taught step dances from South African mines and Mexico. “It puts a smile on my face,” Marisol Pineda Conde ’08 of Ballet Folklorico said as the SWSG girls twirled in colorful skirts...
...them out to the playground? That's no more absurd than banning tag. Sure, kids often get hurt. It is our job as teachers and parents to help them set effective physical and psychological boundaries through discussion and role play. I suggest that district administrators watch kids in the classroom after a recess without active physical play. Kids badly need this kind of break in their academic day. Being motivated by fear of lawsuits sends an awful message to kids: fear and money reign...
...play that “transgresses race, becoming a story to which everyone can relate.” Ultimately, Imafidon hopes this performance will have an impact on the Harvard community’s collective conscience. For her, social awareness should not just take place in the classroom.“It’s very easy for us to intellectualize and moralize and be distant about how we analyze issues. [Today], we’re still dealing with [issues like] single motherhood and homelessness and you can’t walk down a street around Harvard...
...also encourage the use of affirmative action programs beyond the classroom, as they have clear value in the workplace. Most importantly, we still believe that there are clear biases in many areas of employee hiring, even if the biases are unintentional. There is research to suggest that black job applicants often receive worse job offers than white applicants, despite being equal in every possible regard—education, skill set, and experience. And empirical evidence shows that the notorious “glass ceiling” continues to hamper women’s opportunities for advancement in the corporate world...
...professors’ rejection of CUE surveys left more than 230 TFs without the formal student evaluations that would help these aspiring academics develop their teaching careers. If Harvard is to expect, as we firmly believe it should, its tenure-track faculty to be as proficient in the classroom as they are in the library or the laboratory, it must cultivate the teaching skills of academia’s future teachers. But instilling this sort of cultural shift in what Harvard values in its faculty—that they must demonstrate competence in the classroom in order to be hired?...