Word: tfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prove it with my own observations and the observations of others," Mansfield said. "I saw this in my TFs, and I even felt an impulse in myself to do this...
...With a voluntary system, it's entirely possible for troubled TFs to go their own way after an unfavorable evaluation, "Buell said. "And if their teaching is in a course where they aren't evaluated, we have no way of tracking their future careers...
Teaching fellows say it is predominantly thefirst-years who are intimidated to speak up inlarge groups. Metz says some TFs are now holdingextra sections on their own time, just forfirst-years
...haven't been that painful. I've had a little luck in getting assigned to sections led by highly competent and intelligent graduate students. In 20 or 30 years, when they have electrified students at other institutions, they might even make it to full faculty members here. The good TFs, of course, have been able not only to clarify points in lecture, but also to have challenged my understanding and analyses of those topics. They have been able to lead and mediate excited discussions between all members of the class, rather than redeliver the professor's lecture...
...orientation lunch outside Memorial Hall yesterday, President Neil L. Rudenstine stressed the importance of TFs as bridges in the generational gap between faculty members and undergraduates...