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Gustavo S. Turner, the head teaching fellow for VES 173x, says the course has been “one of the most remarkable teaching experiences I’ve had at Harvard” in four years as a TF, but acknowledges the impact of Mitchell’s packed calendar this spring...
...report’s perennial focus on increased student and faculty contact through smaller classes and an expanded Faculty, meanwhile, will hopefully give students the attention they deserve. Still, the recommendations to encourage better teaching fellows—which range from new awards for top-notch TFs to better TF training—will do little to change teaching quality because they do not insist on greater coursehead monitoring and interaction with course...
Chang, the TF recipient of the prize, is a laboratory teaching fellow in Chemistry 27, “Organic Chemistry of Life...
...imagine the unlikely prospect of a fellowship transforming indifferent TFs into motivated ones. Moreover, the type of generalized (read: fluffy) pedagogical training TFs are likely to receive as a result of the report’s suggested reforms will at best address only a small part of the of TF problem. We are particularly frustrated that the report did not do more to address the TF issue since so much of the learning Harvard undergraduates do is expected to happen in section...
...their time to research and publishing. As for the oversight of TFs, more sections should be taped, and professors should be expected to review those tapes, meet with TFs and provide written evaluations of their TFs that other professors would have access to. Increased contact with professors would improve TF performance not only by providing additional motivation to teach effectively, but also by providing feedback from those who know the course material best. With the hands-off approach that many professors currently take towards their TFs, one has more reason to be surprised at TFs who sincerely care about...