Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Beacuse TFs arer crucial to undergraduate education, it is often the students who suffer the consequences when their graduate student instructors fail to make the grade...
When their TFs are burned by a low score on student evaluations, they can turn to the Bok center and the Commitee on undergraduate Education...
...answer--according to a part-owner of both bars, Peter Lee--is not that simple. Yes, both hangouts are owned by the same four young guys; both get their names from trendy areas in Dublin; and both coddle already yuppified, precocious freshman on the prowl for trophy TFs. But, Grafton Street and Temple Bar are as different as onion soup au gratin ($4.95) and cheese fondue...
...there already exist too many factors that detract from the uniformity of a course's sections. Most obvious are the variations among teaching fellows, from the dynamic leaders who draw students into discussions to the meek leaders who allow three or four students to dominate the discussion, from the TFs who could teach the course with more passion than the professor to those dry enough to make students resent ever enrolling in the course...
...into the section of an unfair TF who's grading practices are out of line with the rest of the class. Professors can do much to alleviate this problem, however, by circulating a set of standards and expectations to be evaluated in every paper in exam. Make sure the TFs follow the standards. Make sure the students know what is expected. Communication is the key, and it often will make life a whole lot easier for everyone...