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Harvard Undergraduate Teachers are not students who are dying to get into teaching as soon as possible. Although some definitely want to teach, others are not sure and some probably do not want to teach at all. But as David M. Goldberg '59 commented when asked about his motives for originating the group, "You can help put out a fire without wanting to be a fireman...
...guinea pig for the HUT last spring, Goldberg worked in a history class at Newton High. He and Social Studies teacher Charles Peltier worked together on a short unit about Karl Marx. He found that a new vocabulary was needed for teaching in high school, but after a session he confirmed that...
...success of the experiment so far has derived from the benefits it produces to the schools as well as to the undergraduates. David Goldberg points out that an HUT can fill in the gaps in a teacher's knowledge and bring a fresh approach to the subject. New theories which an undergraduate is studying can be discussed with advanced students...
Like many undergraduate organizations, HUT was the child of a midnight bull session--this time in Lowell House last December. Goldberg took the idea of students helping out in high schools and presented it to several possible supporters, but received no real encouragement until he went to Deans Herzog and Keppel of the Graduate School of Education. Herzog pointed out that they could give some definite support whereas the Yard had "sympathy but ..." about the idea. The Deans served as a liason between Goldberg and schools that might be interested and also gave official sanction to the group...
...Goldberg and John Provine '60 tested their idea out last spring at Newton High and established its validity. Convinced by their success, other schools picked up the program this fall...