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...teacher with a deaf student in your class, or if you have a deaf friend or work colleague, you'll know that communication between the hearing and nonhearing can sometimes be a bit tricky. Learning the basics of sign language is a good start, but there will always be words you don't know. If you're stuck on the sign for lunch, you could consult a language textbook, but piecing together static signs on the page isn't very efficient...
...known for her work in civil rights. After accepting the award, Dee delivered the annual Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Lecture. “Something comes to mind as I stand here. I’m thinking of myself in elementary school,” she said, recounting a music teacher who used to look down from her piano and smile in a show of praise. “I think about God going about his business and just now he looked down on me and smiled,” she added. The performer held the audience in rapt attention...
Associate Professor Jason A. Kaufman ’93, a popular teacher and well known scholar, is held in such high esteem by his colleagues that in 2005 he became the first junior faculty member to be nominated for tenure by the Sociology Department in more than a decade. It turns out that that’s not enough at Harvard, which rejected his application last month. Another star, Associate Professor of Japanese History Mikael S. Adolphson, recently met the same fate. These two are only the latest in a long string of highly qualified junior faculty members who were...
Finally, make better training and more creative deployment of graduate teaching fellows a central part of curricular reform. Graduate student teachers are as vital to great research universities as medical interns are to flagship hospitals. At Harvard, we fund graduate education in part through teaching fellowships and offer excellent teacher training to our PhDs. But teaching fellowships have been tied, in a cookie-cutter fashion, to lecture-course sections enrolling 15 to 18 undergraduates apiece. Faculty are often loath to try new course formats for fear of not employing enough TFs; and graduate students do not develop a full range...
...Nikki Giovanni, the feminist poet and teacher at Virginia Tech who stirred the campus convocation yesterday with a poem, had Cho in a poetry class two years ago - and it wasn't long before she had him tossed out. "There was something mean about this boy," she said. "Troubled kids get drunk and jump off buildings. It was the meanness that bothered me." Giovanni recalled that Cho came to class in dark sunglasses and a hat. And every day, from very early in the semester, she would ask him to remove the one and then the other. "We would have...