Word: tfs
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...logistical benefits of preregistration are obvious: no book shortages at the Coop, no last-minute room changes, no week of class wasted. And much of the faculty remains skeptical of the benefits of shopping, which makes it harder to plan for classes by hiring the correct number of TFs, scheduling sections, and getting in touch with students...
...Since Harvard refuses to provide us with course reading lists and the Coop refuses to provide us with course reading lists we have to be here, and manually build those lists up, and hound professors and TFs to give them to us so that we can provide this student service,” Staff said...
...tool for pedagogical improvement, without which teachers are essentially feedback-blind. Though few professors opt out of such evaluations, leaving the option open at all amounts to providing a sop to professors’ whims and egos. While the Faculty did vote to mandate evaluations of all teaching fellows (TFs)—a critical step in the University’s recognition of the importance of teaching ability among those responsible for students’ education here—its failure to include professors was a glaring omission and one we hope the Faculty corrects next year.This year also...
...While TFs are hired and trained through the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, each department accepts applications, conducts interviews, and organizes training sessions for CAs individually...
According to Shirley X. Dong—a second year graduate student in organismic and evolutionary biology who has served as a TF for Math 19a, “Modeling and Differential Equations for the Life Sciences”—graduate TFs, who deal with more conceptual-based teaching, do not have much interaction with...