Word: tfs
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...There’s no doubt that Bruce Watson is one of the best TFs at Harvard,” he said...
Watson also said that while the exams will remain in the same format as in the fall, the TFs will take “extra care” to ensure fairness...
...pedagogical improvement across disciplines, to my mind, lies in convincing TFs that they are teachers, not graders. My worst ever experience with a TF came in a Core class for which I was required to write a seven-page paper. The TF returned it with a grade and a one-word comment: “Good.” (It wasn’t even.) Clearly, that type of approach, prioritizing letter grades over substantive feedback, is unacceptable. Obviously, though, that experience is the exception, not the rule. Most of the TFs I’ve had at Harvard have...
...Obviously, the one semester of Expos did not, on its own, provide enough stylistic guidance to last a college career. Which was where Sillery—and her forests of green ink—popped into my head. While I have often received extensive comments from the Teaching Fellows (TFs)—or, occasionally, professors—who grade my papers, virtually none have focused on style and substance as two sides of the same coin...
...Cabot Professor of Biology Richard M. Losick, under whose purview this issue falls, will be finding a way to spread that philosophy throughout the College. It is easy to recognize that style and substance are intertwined; it is far harder to think of a way to force professors and TFs to drive home the message. After all, it is terrifying to think of how much time it must have taken Sillery to “correct” the 18 history papers she received from my class alone...