Word: tfs
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...reputations and distinguished accomplishments, but these in themselves don’t make a two-hour lecture stimulating or even bearable. What grabs our attention, makes the time fly by, and, in some cases, even sparks our inspiration are great teachers. We all hope for professors or teaching fellows (TFs) who are not only knowledgeable but engaging, not only experts but teachers...
...students are able to choose classes based on the merits of a particular professor, students don’t usually take into account, and shouldn’t need to, the quality of the classes’ teaching fellows. Yet reality dictates that most undergraduates’ experiences with TFs are hit or miss. When an exceptional and dedicated TF distinguishes himself, as Watson has done, the College must make an exception to its six-year rule...
...this end, we suggest a policy by which committed TFs can apply to teach for an extra two years at a time beyond their six-year limit. There should be an application process that takes into account consistently high Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) guide ratings, as well as the recommendations of the faculty teaching the courses in which these outstanding TFs work. As long as the threshold of achievement in teaching is high enough, TFs who are not both devoted to their students and exceptionally gifted at teaching will be unable to stay past the limit. We don?...
...They sometimes forget that they are part of a larger community at Harvard,” says Kennedy School of Government student Tonya M. Cropper. “We’re not just there to service them as TFs...
...right now, Harvard has a few islands of interdisciplinarity in a sea of deeply entrenched academic departments. But even long-established tropical interdisciplinary paradises such as history and literature have major problems integrating disciplines. Hist and lit has its recognizably history-oriented TFs and its literature-oriented TFs. Students break down generally the same way. Again, there are always exceptions. But neither teachers nor students are ever required to stray far from their comfort zones, even when they are technically expected...