Word: teachers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graduate students say an attempt to increase faculty-student contact by cutting down on the use of teaching fellows will swell student-teacher ratios and might limit options for tutorials...
...over-whelming number of women who responded to the questionnaires from which the case histories were drawn said that they either did not know their attacker at all (most of these women were hitchhiking), or that they knew him slightly: he was a friend of a friend, a teacher, an employer or a neighbor. The women who were hitchhiking were where the men who picked them up thought "they did not belong," hence fair game. The women raped by acquaintances had been manuevered, by aid of their disbelief of intentions, into a situation where either physically, emotionally or socially they...
...same time, new funds became available for teacher training and graduate fellowships, facilitating the increase in the GSAS during the 1960s to its high of 2827 in 1966-67. One of the supposed benefits of Harvard's graduate school is the opportunity it provides for students to teach. The influx of willing teaching fellows in the 1960s coincided with faculty members' desire to spend more time on research...
...experience at PS 61 he concluded that children enjoy writing poetry "because it provides welcome relief from required subjects." Because it is a group-activity it "belies self-consciousness or self-doubt." And he believes it to be "competitive in a mild and exhilarating way." Koch thinks that a teacher can overcome a child's fear of writing a bad poem or being criticized or ridiculed by reading poems aloud stressing their intrinsic value, and withholding the writer's name. Never change a line, says Koch, just ask the writer what he meant. He suggest going around the classroom "encouraging...
...note about this poem, "Among School Children," Yeats wrote "Topic for poem--School children and the thought that life will waste them perhaps that no possible life can fulfill out dreams or even their teacher's hope." The school children I met and taught and came to admire showed me that they will never fulfill Koch's dreams or hopes. Their imaginations should and can be active all the time in school--not just in one liberated period of time...