Word: teach
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...writing sections and tutorials that the fellows teach aim to help Harvard students with noticeable problems in organizing and presenting clearly their writing, according to administrators and fellows...
Success at home and attention from abroad made Takarabe wonder whether such a course would not succeed outside Japan. To help teach a U.S. version, he recruited two Americans. First, though, they had to pass the course themselves. Recalls Fred Delisle, 55, a retired U.S. Army colonel: "I told myself, 'Hell, I can't do this,' but pretty soon I was doing it." He and Classmate Dan Galitz, a former police training officer, finished ninth and seventh, respectively, in a class...
Perhaps a more lasting solution would be to require senior faculties to participate more actively in the Core. While 95 percent of all Core courses are taught by senior faculty, less than 50 percent of senior faculty actually teach a Core...
Pilbeam says the problem of advising is linked to the student-faculty ratio and Harvard's need for a larger teaching faculty. Advising is "an area of legitimate concern," Pilbeam says, but one that can be solved by hiring more faculty and giving incentives to teach for existing faculty members...
...practical knowledge is often not a big enough part of the teaching process, some fellows say. Stern suggests that one way universities could increase their involvement in urban schooling would be to hire teachers from nearby school systems to teach Ed School courses...