Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Should such training for TFs be mandatory? Given some of the horror stories that most undergraduates can relate, perhaps...
Your front-page story on teaching fellows ("How Well Does the Faculty Train TFs?" March 2, 1994) adopts a fairly typical journalistic strategy: hurl as much mud as you can no as many targets as possible and hope that some of it sticks...
Your reporter runs roughshod over the sense of my statement, suggesting that it reveals how students are at the mercy of incompetent TFs who are backed up by the professors who hire them...
Even more misleading was a quotation where I discuss the lack of professional input into teaching technique. Of course, as I told the reporter, professors do ensuring that their TFs are knowledgeable and that issues relevant to the week's readings are taken up in section...
This lack of formal pedagogical training for TFs might could have been an issue the reporter could have explored profitably...