Word: tf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Skocpol also emphasized the need for departmental flexibility in TF training...
...Professors who pay attention to what's goingon in their classrooms are the best answer [toensure TF quality]," Skocpol said...
...redundant. Disregarding the possibility that a very successful "Profscam" has been pulled on the undergraduate population, the obvious answer is that TFs are really "teaching assistants" who do not have, and are not expected to have, as much knowledge about a subject as a full-time professor. Being a TF prepares graduate students for that far-off day when they will become professors; in a sense, undergraduates are the guinea pigs for the teaching techniques of rookie teachers...
...students use their TF's accent as anexcuse not to do their best work," said Donna R.D'Fini, coordinator of the department's graduateprograms. "Some students concentrate on theaccent, not on the math...
...Things have a lot to do with culturaldifferences and prejudices," D'Fini said. "Somestudents come in with a mind that is alreadyclosed to a TF with an accent--in the time thatI've been here I've even seen students complainingabout a TF with a strong Southern accent...