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Another course--which Gaspar is not taking this semester--is a lab class called, "Education and Community", which meets Monday afternoons from 2 to 4 p.m. and is taught by Donald W. Oliver, professor of Education and chairman of the TCLE program...
Unlike many of Harvard's other graduate schools, a large portion of the Ed School's students have already had some other experience in the field. The 35-year-old average for the student body demonstrates this. Dennis Gaspar, for example, spent a year teaching at a small college in South Dakota before enrolling. He also has received a masters in English, studied at a religious seminary, and served in the military...
...Gaspar and a bunch of his friends in the Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning Environment (TCLE) program spend odd hours in the afternoon chatting away in the Conroy Commons in the basement of Longfellow Hall. Gaspar and company say that much of the social life at the Ed School centers around the Commons. Down a narrow stairway, the windowless, smoke-filled room resembles a small cafe with a myriad of small tables surrounding a petite cafeteria...
...Most of Gaspar's classes meet in the afternoons, so he doesn't usually appear at the Commons until lunchtime. Gaspar tells his colleagues about working at the first fully accredited college run by an Indian reservation. Richard Schmertzing and David Dockterman, two other first-year TCLE students, discuss a grant they are trying to get for an independent project about computer use at a group of computer summer camps. A little later they discuss a faculty-student forum held the week before. They tell how various students complained about the lack of contact between students and faculty...
...Gaspar and his friends are completing their first year along with 22 others in the TCLE program, the smallest of the Ed School's curriculum divisions. The two other curricular programs at the school are the Administration. Planning and Social Policy program, which provides more of an administrative approach to education; and the Human Development, Reading and Counseling program, which focuses more on developing programs to aid student advancement in the schooling. Gaspar takes the normal TCLE courseload of four courses, which he says centers on qualitative research and actual classroom interaction. Two of Gaspar's courses involve adult development...