Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Responding to student complaints about incomprehensible and underqualified teaching fellows (TFs), the Faculty Council in March adopted a TF training plan which gave departments the power to determine their own standards and regulations...
...plan was presented to the council by Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell after his initial proposal for centralized testing of all TFs and special training for all non-native English speaking TFs was rejected...
...point was not (as your quote suggests) that such manuals are irrelevant; my point was that Harvard's resources for TFs extend far beyond a mere manual. If the manual were the only resource available to TFs, the Core program would be in trouble indeed. But Clearly that is very far from the case...
...problems do not stop the at overcrowding, though. Many TF's have complained of inflexibility and an uncooperative attitude from the core office. TFs have often had trouble getting the necessary books for classes leading to delays and obstacles in teaching the course material. Several TF's also charged that the core office does a poor job of acquiring the necessary numbers of TF's for classes that are larger than expected...
...core is supposed to teach "approaches to knowledge," many of the actual teachers don't appear to understand how. Numerous TFs and professors say that they are unclear on how to teach "an approach...