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...hand information during the semester regarding the strengths and weaknesses of their teaching. Never again should a TF be surprised by his or her CUE scores at the end of the semester, because evaluation will be an on-going practice. With the growing importance of teaching portfolios for TFs, the ability to avoid recording low scores will be of great pragmatic value in the competitive world of academia. This is only in addition to the enormous personal value in improving one’s teaching, among the primary goals of most Harvard graduate students. Finally, the teaching hotline empowers faculty...
...teaching hotline works through an email address—TF@hcs.harvard.edu—to which undergraduates will send both compliments and complaints about their TFs. On the receiving end, a group of undergraduates will move to address student comments. To ensure responsible action, we have partnered with the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning to train these undergraduates in reading evaluations and encouraging the betterment of both teaching and learning in Harvard classrooms. Most often, student intermediaries will present TFs and, when necessary, course heads with comments coming through the hotline, empowering students, TFs, and faculty to invoke change...
This program looks to resolve some of the key difficulties confronting teaching at Harvard. In general, students simply do not feel comfortable speaking directly with their professors and TFs about classroom frustrations. No party benefits from this lack of communication. Students remain dissatisfied throughout the semester, while at its close, they impart scathing CUE reviews to both TFs and course heads who are often unaware of their flaws. But neither a student’s fear of insulting an educator nor their mere discomfort in approaching a brilliant professor should halt the improvement of teaching and learning at Harvard...
...always, with empowerment comes responsibility. The mere existence of the teaching hotline will not bring the above benefits to fruition. Students will have the responsibility to thoughtfully and consistently make use of the new hotline. Likewise, both TFs and professors will have to vigorously employ the new knowledge provided by this resource to improve teaching in their classrooms. Like so many of the positive changes astir in the College today, the task of improving teaching requires a partnership between students and educators. We hope the teaching hotline acts as a first step in strengthening that partnership...
...realm of Harvard student hotlines. A new e-mail domain allowing student feedback on TF performance went live at 11:59 last night, after being arranged and approved by the Undergraduate Council (UC). Students who want to relay concerns—or compliments—about particular TFs can now send an e-mail to TF@hcs.harvard.edu and have their comments addressed confidentially and promptly, according to a bill unanimously passed by the UC yesterday. Crucial to the implementation of “The Teaching Hotline Act” will be the Undergraduate Teaching Board—a group of four...