Word: pedagogyã
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...Compact on Teaching and Learning,” as the report was called, found that teaching skill was ignored or even stigmatized in performance reviews of graduate students and professors. In response, the compact called for a slew of fundamental changes to the way the University approaches pedagogy??including more documentation of teaching ability during hiring and promotions, more funding 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...
...understand that professors are busy. They have research to conduct, classes to teach, students to advise, and lives beyond Harvard to lead. Nonetheless, the Faculty’s unwillingness to spend 90 minutes discussing how to improve pedagogy??an issue that is central to Harvard’s mission—is a disappointment...
...best hope for an improvement in Harvard’s pedagogy??an area in which it has consistently lagged behind—lies in the genesis of a culture grounded in mutual, constructive critique. Given the vast scale of the Harvard curriculum, we believe that the new general education system, the common intellectual ground of every College student, is the natural starting point for such improvements. In the long run, however, pedagogical improvement must not end with these courses. In fact, we hope that such a culture change will develop across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences?...
...students who know the material and possess the skills to teach it, in section—often the pedagogical equivalent of pulling teeth—leaders range from the clueless to the unhinged. Yet when it comes to undergraduate education, the College puts TFs both good and bad on pedagogy??s front lines...
...talks were aimed, said Joseph K. Green ’05—a member of the committee to examine pedagogy??at helping “figure out what questions are important to ask” as the review continues...
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