Word: co-taught
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...most notorious of the co-taught classes is Religion 1045: "Thinking About Thinking," which is taught by Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, Thomas Professor of Divinity Harvey G. Cox and Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology Stephen J. Gould. This class, which only accepted 30 students from the College this semester, is host to one of the most competitive lotteries in Harvard history...
...these professors could have drawn a full crowd his their own--Gould's Science B-16: "History of Life" is generally held in one of the large Science Center auditoriums. Their collaboration is hardly a result of low self-esteem. That, in fact, seems to be the problem. Have co-taught classes such as these become excuses for posturing by prominent professors? Have they diverged from their well-intentioned beginnings...
Professors teaching together is a nice concept. Students benefit from watching great minds duke it out over contemporary and academic issues, often hearing first-hand the opposing positions of an academic debate. According to the Chair of the Economics Department, Professor Jeffrey Williamson, co-taught classes actually encourage professors to perfect their teaching styles. Williamson said that junior faculty especially benefit from co-teaching courses with senior faculty members...
...research institution like Harvard, where faculty mentoring is almost non-existent, co-taught classes provide valuable feedback and partnerships for professors. Students then benefit from professors who have honed their lecturing skills in the crucible of a co-taught class...
...with every class, the quality depends on the teaching, and too many professors use co-taught classes as a forum for their own personal debates rather than for a teaching experience. As Williamson admits, "There's good teaching and there's bad teaching." Courses where the team-teaching experience becomes more of ego trip than a class may attract students, but they do not ultimately add anything to a liberal arts education...