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Professor David Layzer often used undergraduates as co-section leaders in his Core courses, Science A-18, "Space, Time, and Motion," and Science A-22, "Chance, Necessity and Order," which were taught entirely in section (both courses are no longer offered). Layzer wrote me in an e-mail that he finds this practice to be beneficial to all of the students involved, particularly to the undergraduate section leader who is able to gain extraordinary experience...
Despite the possible benefits from a situation such as Layzer's, where undergraduates share responsibility with a more experienced instructor, I strongly believe it is inappropriate for undergraduates ever to teach and grade their peers. There are exceptional students at this college who will, I have no doubt, become effective teachers in the future. But for the moment we are all members of the same community. We have neither the qualifications, nor the depth of understanding in our field, nor the disinterestedness, nor the authority to formally judge or instruct one another. One example of the problems with this practice...
Three members of the Faculty--Stanley Cavell, the Cabot professor of aesthetics and the general theory of value; David Layzer, Menzel professor of astrophysics; and Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of history of science--were granted honorary membership in the society...
...David Layzer is the Menzel Professor of Astrophysics. He has taught in the Core program and its predecessor, the General Education program, for more than 25 years...
...David Layzer '46, Menzel professor of astrophysics, also presented an alternate to the current Core curriculum, emphasizing the need for small, writing-intensive discussion sections to accompany lecture classes in the Core...