Word: hodder
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According to UTEP Director Lissa Hodder, the Harvard undergraduates currently student teaching--in schools ranging from Martin Luther King Open Middle School to Watertown High School--handle their dual roles of student and teacher with ease. They write theses, apply for fellowships and manage the normal senior year stress...
When Harvard Men's Hockey Coach Clark Hodder '25 sat down to assess the state of his struggling team on March 5, 1941, there wasn't a whole lot he could do. Back in those days, there was no NCAA tournament, no ECAC and no Beanpot. An Ivy League title was out of the question since Harvard, 2-8-1 at the time, would play only one more game before the season expired...
...unlike Hodder's bunch, the present team has to do more than just close the books and wait for next year--over half of the season's games remain...
...Should Harvard encourage more students to teach and especially more to do UTEP? Definitely yes," Elizabeth Hodder, the program's coordinator, wrote me in an email. "UTEP gives some fine and very talented people the opportunity and preparation to project that understanding and talent in their schools." She adds, however, that "it takes more than good-will to be an effective teacher...
This is not to say that everyone at Harvard should chuck their career plans in order to teach. But we should all think about it. "You have to feel, not just know, you are needed, and also you have to test your interest and love for kids," writes Hodder. We are not all born teachers, but I think all of us have some capacity to share knowledge and make a difference. Even if you are really set on talking that job at Goldman Sachs, you can still tutor in math during your free time. Even if you were meant...