Word: tf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some students defend TF behavior...
...frustrating to be standing next to a male TF and have a student turn and ask him a question on a topic you know as well or better." says one humanities teaching fellow. "The other side of the female TF onus is that there are definitely students who expect that she will be a pushover...
...hard and strive mightily to project an air of quiet command. But behind our button-down shirts and corduroy jackets with leather elbows, we are bundles of pure anxiety. Now that classes are over, it may be safe to tell the world what goes on in section from the TF's point of view...
...first day we also identify the student who can be counted on to speak, who will contribute week-in and week-out, whether or not he has done the reading. Let's call him Johnny. We TF's have what the twelve-step programs would call a co-dependent, highly dysfunctional relationship with Johnny. We need Johnny, but want very much to avoid becoming addicted to him. On a good day Johnny will galvanize the room, firing up an exciting, inclusive discussion. On a bad day Johnny will talk for roughly forty-five minutes, pausing only for oxygen and fluids...
...heard from my spies that students have at times come to section--and I know this will come as a shock--without having done every word of the assigned reading. In section, contrary to students, gallant, even Herculean attempts to disguise the fact, it is usually apparent to the TF who has done the reading...