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Verba pays closer attention to those who score at the other end of the scale. He chooses 35 to 40. TF's with "disaster ratings" each semester, recommending that they get extra instruction either from the Danforth Center or the summer school's course of English as a second language...
...Graduate School pays for half the costs of the Danforth Center, Keenan says, in order to expose interested section leaders to videotaping critiques, and seminars designed to impart the fundamentals of teaching itself...
McWade says that while the TF program has an implicit assumption that all grad students can teach, many need to use devices like the Danforth Center to bring out this potential...
Verba's programs to encourage evaluations and meetings. Keenan's funding of the Danforth Center, and Rosovsky's decision to make the issue a priority in his annual report all show that complaints about TF quality have hit home with the administration...
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...