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...required to pass a course on how to lead a Harvard undergraduate section—such as those currently offered on a volunteer basis at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning—before being allowed to instruct students. If this were enforced, TFs would actually have classroom teaching experience under their belts, rather than being recruited the day before class starts...
Knowles, who is the Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry, said he will return to teaching—but he said he has not yet decided whether he will return to the classroom immediately next fall...
Knowles is no Scrooge. Under his tenure, FAS has spent money left and right, and on improvements that really affect students’ quality of life, too. The renovated Harvard Hall, Holden Chapel and Boylston Hall provide gleaming classroom space, and a $22 million, 32,000 square foot addition to the Science Center will get underway this summer. The most powerful man at Harvard has even agreed to renovate the dilapidated Hasty Pudding Building (a project now expected to cost well over $10 million) and ruminated to the Faculty about converting the Inn at Harvard into academic space. And then...
...make meaningful comparisons. It has become all too common for the goof-off and the hard-working genius to be separated by a single plus or minus on their transcript. When almost half of grades given out at the College are A or A-minus, distinguishing oneself in the classroom is not a matter of being better than everyone else, but of being perfect...
Often, they hear about the opportunity to proctor exams through retiree groups or by word of mouth and are anxious to relive the “experience of going into a classroom,” says Field Manager of Exams and Registrar Services Mike Fournier. In many cases, Fournier explains, they just enjoy being around students. He recalls a proctor who was overjoyed to see a student she one of her former high school students, who had been in her sophomore history class. But sometimes the age of the retirees-turned-proctors can make for a precarious situation, he says...