Word: tfs
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...certain je ne sais quoi. Romance Languages teaching fellows are so jaw-droppingly stylish that their students may find it hard to concentrate on their verb declensions. The department imports graduate students and their sense of style from all over the world. FM imported two of these style-savvy TFs to survey the budget holiday shopping scene in the Square. Generous as well as fashionable, they offer tips not just (or even really focused at all) on holiday shopping and instead show how Harvard students can go from super schlumpy to très trendy...
...whim, the professor who spoke in a whisper and looked up from his feet only when the fire alarm went off and the multiple professors who spent fourteen 52-minute sessions reading directly from thick pages of text. And let’s not forget the quality teaching fellows (TFs) who accompanied these professors. There was the one who started crying at a student question, the one who spent sections discussing his girlfriend and the one who regularly lost control of her cleavage, distracting half the class from any insight she may have had, had she done the reading...
...stutters past their whiskers. This continues for 20 years or so, until the rat’s academic legend overshadows his lecturing—who would ever question the teaching ability of an almighty University professor? Certainly not the department head who is 20 years his junior, nor his TFs, who roll their eyes and spend sections deciphering lectures...
Notably, some departments do provide beginning training for teaching fellows. All TFs receive some form of training regulated by the dean for undergraduate education, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, for example, goes farther than most, requiring all new teaching fellows to undergo a semester of teaching classes. But the requirements end there. Many teachers take voluntary trips to the Derek Bok Center, which offers a myriad of confidential services for professors and TFs, from seminars on educational theory to teaching observation and feedback. The center provides specialized training for course teaching staffs throughout the year, in addition...
This nonbinding registration would alleviate many of the problems associated with shopping period without creating new ones. It would better serve professors, TFs, the registrar and, most importantly, students...