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...teaching fellows (TFs) can make section about as educationally edifying as a trip to the dentist’s office. Aside from a set of remarkable grad students who know the material and possess the skills to teach it, in section—often the pedagogical equivalent of pulling teeth—leaders range from the clueless to the unhinged. Yet when it comes to undergraduate education, the College puts TFs both good and bad on pedagogy’s front lines...
...Education reviewed last Wednesday, the College’s facile approach consists of optional mid-term TF evaluations and optional classes at the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. In the long-term, the preliminary report of the ongoing Harvard College Curricular Review suggests creating fellowships for outstanding TFs and making short training courses in evaluating student work mandatory for grad-student teachers. Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby also believes that instituting a system of preregistration—an unpopular ogre of a policy that we fiercely oppose—might improve...
...simple truth is that bad TFs will always persist at the College. A large research university, even with a faulty-student ratio as low as Harvard’s, will have to tap grad students to teach. But as we have insisted for years, the College can do much more to make TFs better teachers than endowing prizes or offering brief crash courses on grading, which will undoubtedly be easy for grad students to coast through...
...addition to finding out their TF placements early, TFs can attend training sessions prior to the start of each semester to improve their section performance, Warren said...
...Center programs do not reach all TFs or Faculty members...