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...summers away from Harvard, Hemel has served as a travel researcher for Let’s Go Publications in the Baltics, a beat reporter for the New York Sun, and a vocational English teacher in Ecuador with WorldTeach...
...teacher. One of its most fascinating attributes is the Info screen, which appears at the touch of a button, appropriately marked "Info." The screen contains all sorts of data, mostly photographic mumbo jumbo. But the screen also has a visual representation of that mumbo jumbo, so you can figure out what it means. For instance, as the number next to the letter "F" goes up, the image of the camera's aperture gets tighter. It doesn't take long to sort out, then, that the higher the "f-stop," the more closed the camera's aperture. Beginners will appreciate...
This new department need not be a mammoth undertaking. The internal bureaucratic structure would include a department chair, a department chair’s assistant, a PE registrar, full time teacher-coaches, and part-time “guest” instructors. Although Harvard does not publicize faculty salaries, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2002 that the average salary for a TA at a private university was $64,149. Assume a faculty of 50 (slightly less than three times as many as are hired to teach Wellesley’s 2,300 undergraduates) paid at this rate...
...discussed what to do if a child's Christmas wish is for a parent to stop hitting him or her. "Santa can't just get up from his chair and go make a phone call to child services," Connaghan says. One strategy: Urge the child to confide in a teacher until the teacher believes...
...what if the conflict is between your biological child and your stepchild? Balancing the scales of justice between them can test parents sorely. Susan Wallis, a kindergarten teacher in Ellicott City, Md., initially tried to defend her son Sam, now 10, when his three older stepsiblings teased him. "I'd react, 'My poor baby!'" she admits. Her husband Kent Davis suggested that when the kids fought, the disputants should bring their issue before both parents. Each child, without interruption and using "I" statements, would explain what happened and how it made him feel. The tactic has helped the kids recognize...