Word: teaching
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...problem, then, is not so much that Harvard relies on graduate students to teach, but rather that it does so in an uncoordinated way. Heavy use of TFs--unlike the rest of the curriculum--is not a carefully-planned, thoroughly-discussed element of the University's educational strategy. Instead, it is an attempt to improvise in response to immediate needs. The trouble is, this improvisation has become a permanent part of Harvard University's repertoire...
...Though my times are up there, I feel others can still teach me a lot," she says...
...greatest paradox of academic work in modern America is that most professors teach most of the time, and large proportions of them teach all the time, but teaching is not the activity most rewarded by the academic profession nor most valued by the system at large," the report states. "Trustees and administrators in one sector after another praise teaching and reward research...
...report says that the increasing use of lessqualified part-time instructors to teach in largecourses is a further sign of universities' neglectfor teaching. Such instructors, Boyer said in theforeword, "are rarely regarded as full members ofthe campus community and are not expected toassume responsibilities or enjoy rewardscommensurate with those of full-time academics...
...come from a typical Italian family," says Teresa. "My mother wanted me to teach dancing. The first year I arm wrestled she wouldn't speak to me. Now she's proud of all my trophies...