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Deputy Superintendent of Schools Carolyn Turk said the program’s small-group teaching style offers students an additional opportunity to master academic material and to develop their community skills...
Trumpler says she has been pleased to see the increase in freshman seminars offered in the natural sciences. She says that may be just the kind of small-group instruction that could allow for a hands-on, collaborative style of learning that would draw more women at Harvard into the sciences...
...open to all seniors but limited to 12-15 each, on topics that would allow more specialization within concentrations or broader explorations in less familiar fields. The program would be a radical reconsideration of the options available to seniors in their last semester, allowing them to take advantage of small-group interaction with professors with the benefit of having already studied individual subjects in depth...
...their job. Neugeboren’s last three CUE Guide ratings for Economics 1050, “Strategy, Conflict and Cooperation” all had students complaining of disorganization. Though CUE rankings can be biased, how did someone with questionable CUE Guide rankings and ten years of small-group teaching experience end up with 305 students and no supervision? Neugeboren’s average class size went up six-fold, and no one stuck their head in, just to see how things were going...
...have asked Summers three important things: Bring us more teachers so that we may have more small-group instructional settings; find us the physical space our student groups and our Houses need to grow; include us at the table when the University makes decisions. We don't expect magic wands and miracles, but if he can commit to these three goals, he will make a dramatic impact on the lives of Harvard undergraduates. And if he follows through with them, he will leave Harvard in a better position than he found...