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...litigated court case. Rather, it might conjure up images of that tenth grade English teacher who subsisted on chalk dust and notebook paper. Or perhaps a principal so frazzled that the idea of him smiling was laughable. It’s fairly realistic images like these that detract from teaching??s appeal. And while it’s certainly not a problem at all unique to Harvard, it’s hard to pinpoint whether the lack of enthusiasm for the profession stems from the College or the student body, or both. In Eventual Vocation studies done...
...told him I was interested in possibly engaging in film criticism for a career, as well as theater, journalism, teaching??all the stock fields for an indecisive college senior. But when I told him I had long entertained the idea of being a filmmaker, he asked, “Do you have a lot of stories in your soul?” The only way I knew to respond was to awkwardly laugh and say, “Sure...
...many ways, undergraduate teaching can be more rewarding—often was more rewarding for me at Oxford than graduate teaching??because the mix of people you get in an undergraduate class is necessarily different from the mix of people you get once they’ve all selected their graduate options,” he says. “I always felt Oxford had it the wrong way around. We were teaching undergraduates as if they were graduates and graduates as if they were undergraduates...
...glad to see that the Harvard College Curricular Review’s recent report recognizes the many problems with undergraduate instruction and advising at the College. For a university that purports to be the best in the world, second-rate teaching??frustratingly common at Harvard—is simply unacceptable. Admitting there is a problem, however, is only the first step in solving it. Though the report has some solid suggestions, it does not recommend the thorough overhaul of undergraduate pedagogy that the College needs...
...inaccuracies inherent in the CUE Guide’s rating of teaching??often the primary gauge for teaching ability—fall short of providing a realistic picture of teaching skill in the classroom. Were Harvard to adopt a system like Swarthmore’s—whose tenure process asks students to write letters speaking to the teaching ability of candidates—teachers who truly inspire their students to intellectual pursuit would be as accredited as those who merely excel in the lab. Without this crucial component, Harvard’s tenure system, however marginally improved...