Word: tfs
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...TFs were running around and nobody seemed to have any idea what to do,” he said...
...geared at prevention, CASAH makes many substantive recommendations for support services. Training proctors and residential advisors will be extremely valuable; first-years, who are extremely vulnerable to sexual assault and less familiar with university administration, should feel comfortable talking to their advisors about these issues. Training preceptors, prefects and TFs can also be valuable, but it should not distract from in-depth training for the residential advisors. Centralizing information on a single website like “help.harvard.edu” will also be beneficial in ensuring that students can reach the appropriate resources. Emergency information should include sexual assault...
Cell phone bills skyrocket with constant updates between family members before class, during class—bathroom break!—and after class. TFs look quizzically at watergun-toting students who rush into the room panting for breath, only to creak open the door slowly, peering nervously outward, after section comes...
Although hiring TFs earlier may lead to marginal improvements in teaching quality, the way to make substantive changes is very different. The first step is to make section participation ungraded. Students, should not be rewarded for doing their reading on a weekly basis—and they surely should not be penalized for falling behind on those weeks when, for whatever reasons, they cannot complete all the readings for all their classes. If participation were ungraded, students would spend more time offering their own opinions and, crucially, listening to their classmates’ views—the essence of meaningful...
Stimulating discussions of source material should be at the heart of a good humanities education. As the system is currently configured, however, TFs are hamstrung by the need to evaluate students and cannot provide the sort of environment where such discussions can routinely take place. Hiring the majority of TFs earlier may make substantive improvements to the quality of instruction in the sciences. But it will not significantly change substandard humanities sections. Only bold measures can tackle that. Implementing Kirby’s vision of preregistration would have been a nightmare. But that doesn’t mean that...