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...frustrated professors who believe that Harvard marginalizes or ignores good instruction, the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development proposed a swath of concrete measures to change Harvard’s teaching culture. The recommendations include more documentation of teaching ability during hiring and promotions, more funding from the FAS administration for pedagogical experimentation, increased scheduling flexibility to allow for different class formats, and a push for professors to visit each other’s courses and share teaching materials.Implementation of some of the proposals could start as early as this academic year if they are received favorably...
Teaching may be given “major and equal weight” with research in professors’ annual salary calculations if the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) follows the recommendations of a new report on teaching released to professors today...
...recommendations include more documentation of teaching ability during hiring and promotions, more funding from the FAS administration for pedagogical experimentation, increased scheduling flexibility to allow for different class formats, and a push for professors to visit each other’s courses and share teaching materials...
...report paints a sobering picture of Harvard’s current teaching culture, in which effective classroom guidance is considered a matter of “individual talent, choice, or valor,” not something FAS sufficiently acknowledges or rewards...
Proven skill in teaching is ignored or even stigmatized during FAS performance reviews, according to the report...