Word: tfs
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...also noted that his TFs and professors were helpful and willing to work with him in order to allow him to be both a full-time student and a full-time professional athlete...
...these classes to be effective, they must emphasize the world’s most essential texts and ideas—though we oppose a strict “Great Books” curriculum—and highlight the best Harvard has to offer, both with professors and teaching fellows (TFs). In any case, the HCCR needs to be clearer in the coming month about what it expects this new class of courses to look like...
...concentration tutorials. The report’s perennial focus on increased student and faculty contact through smaller classes and an expanded Faculty, meanwhile, will hopefully give students the attention they deserve. Still, the recommendations to encourage better teaching fellows—which range from new awards for top-notch TFs to better TF training—will do little to change teaching quality because they do not insist on greater coursehead monitoring and interaction with course TFs...
Harvard College Courses should be further incentivized with the best quality instruction Harvard offers. Teaching ability of faculty should be placed at a premium in developing these courses, and the teaching fellows (TFs) hired to lead sections should be subject to the most rigorous standards. Preferably all Harvard College Course TFs will have had previous teaching experience and high levels of training—flagship teachers for flagship courses. The College should also explore non-traditional teaching formats such as sections led by professors and seminars conducted parallel to the courses...
...better solution would be to encourage professors to teach more and to make greater professor oversight of TFs mandatory. Professors ought to receive additional compensation for teaching above their required number of courses, because currently there is a strong incentive, both in terms of monetary compensation and prestige, for professors to teach as little as possible and to devote their time to research and publishing. As for the oversight of TFs, more sections should be taped, and professors should be expected to review those tapes, meet with TFs and provide written evaluations of their TFs that other professors would have...