Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guess the tension is part of being an academic, though, so we [TFs] have to get used to it," Brown says...
...University makes some resources available to teaching fellows to help them learn how to run sections and grade papers. The Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning holds orientation lectures at the begining of each semester for new teaching fellows, the Core program publishes a "how to" manual for TFs, and there are free videotaping and consulting resources for those graduate students who want other teachers to critique their performance...
Professors in a number of courses, including Ec 10, require their teaching fellows to be videotaped and analyzed by teaching consultants. In addition, some course heads ask their TFs to deliver lectures to the entire class...
...pressure to teach is exacerbated by thefact that Harvard faces a growing shortage ofavailable TFs...
...ratings of those who have previously taught sections--unless, of course, there is something compromising to hide. Were the evaluation ratings of each and every person who has ever taught a section made public, students would no longer be in the dark about the varying quality of various TFs...