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Picasso once said that he spent his whole life trying to learn to paint like a child, and the goal of Harvard's Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning--the major resource for section leaders seeking to improve their teaching skills--is much the same...
Founded in 1976 by a grant from the Danforth Foundation, the Center's eight-member staff conducts seminars and workshops on teaching at the beginning of each semester, as well as critiques of videotaped sections throughout the semester...
...center is also involved in a program for "writing intensive" sections that emphasize the importance of expression, in addition to content. The Danforth Center also gives awards to teaching fellows who receive top marks in the Committee on Undergraduate Education's (CUE) evaluations...
Although teaching fellows are not required to have their classes videotaped for later review, many professors urge their section leaders to make use of the Danforth Center's facilities...
...pass when J. Danforth Quayle accused liberals of being anti-grandmother in the vice presidential debate. Quayle, after all, is not acclaimed for his intellectual prowess. But when a bona fide conservative intellectual (or is that an oxymoron?) accuses us of hating football, this enthusiastic gridiron fan takes offense...