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Emphasizing small-group problem-solving and computer instruction, the program would annually accept 25 college sophomores to follow a specialized curriculum through their final two undergraduate years, four years of med school, and first year of hospital training...
...meantime, Verba has big plans for the Committee on Undergraduate Education for the coming year. He plans to tackle "something that could be described as the quality of undergraduate teaching. More specifically, issues involving the quality of small-group teaching at Harvard, looking at the range of teaching and learning experiences that students have where there is some kind of personal contact with an instructor." Verba perceives sizeable discrepancies in teacher effectiveness from department to department and often within particular courses. "It's not that I would expect to change undergraduate teaching at Harvard, but we are trying to find...
...letter he will send to all department chairmen this week, Verba, a professor of Government, urges professors to come to him with proposals for any such projects. "I'm particularly interested in innovations that tend to increase the amount and improve the quality of small-group instruction," he said yesterday...
WITH THE CANCELLATION of Expository Writing's fiction option last week, Harvard and Radcliffe freshmen lost a valuable opportunity to write fiction in a small-group environment without the competitive pressure of advanced-level ficiton courses...
What further astonishes me is the current director's apparent aversion to "counseling" as a part of excellent small-group teaching. What is teaching, at its very best, after all, than the interplay of people--the older ones who have the knowledge, the compassion, and the standards, and the younger ones who need all three? The current Expos director seems to disdain, even to fear, caring. Yet it is probably, in fact, for most of those freshmen who pass through his computer, the most valuable gift their teachers can give them...