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Another negative side-effect of students preregistering for more classes than they intend to take would be the overhiring of TFs...
Knowing course enrollments the semester before they have to teach a course would also allow professors to present more concrete job offers to potential TFs, leading to less scrambling for jobs among graduate students and allowing them more time to prepare their course materials and teaching plans, says Gross. He also says course instructors would be able to start teaching in earnest right away without the transitory and uncertain nature that shopping period can entail...
...There are certain courses where they have to hire people at the last minute; those TFs are thrown into the classroom without having any opportunity for pre-semester training,” Girash says. “The hope is around here that [preregistration] will at least give the opportunity for more TFs to know that they’re teaching and to take advantage of our services and our interdepartmental training...
Currently, about 400 TFs attend the Bok Center’s fall teaching conference, and about half that amount go to the winter session...
...Wolcowitz says he isn’t worried about having too many TFs. Even if preregistration leads the FAS to overestimate the number of TFs it needs, however, he pledges that the Faculty will retain those extra TFs and put them to use reducing the size of the sections...