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Dunster House resident Michael L. Stewart ’05 said the statistics department is small enough for prospective TFs to ask around for possible positions...
Undergraduate teaching fellows (TFs) teach chemistry, statistics, computer science and some languages, and are responsible not only for grading midterms, but also checking problem sets and other assignments for these classes...
Being undergraduates means that these TFs sometimes face problems that graduate students avoid. For example, Stewart said last year he was a TF for Statistics 104, “Introduction to Quantitative Methods,” a class in which his girlfriend was enrolled...
...finals and gigabytes of course videos, some small humanities courses don’t even include a syllabus. The new my.Harvard portal puts these course websites at the forefront, making them easily accessible and making administrators more accountable. With course websites well integrated into a popular student portal, head TFs and professors will be more likely to keep them...
...prefects and upperclass students, who know far more about the academic life of the College than anyone else. These students are the most informed regarding practical issues of course selection, and they can often direct students to key faculty members and departmental tutors. Upperclassmen are most aware of competent TFs, manageable course loads and disappointing courses—issues of utmost importance to first-years, but which are often overlooked by uninvolved proctors and academic advisers. This kind of advising in no way alleviates the need for making the Faculty more accessible to students, but it will enhance the first...