Word: tfs
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...more graduate students at short notice to TF a few extra sections. For those courses that are oversubscribed time after time, like many popular cores, this type of behavior is particularly inexcusable as the professor has a whole year to arrange for a suitable number of TFs. It makes absolutely no difference to the professors if they lecture to 50 or 250 people and we all know how much effort most professors put into grading papers and exams...
...TFs say that unlike many professors, he held weekly meetings to advise them on classroom instruction...
...guessing (perhaps something stodgy academics and former government bureaucrats deem laudable) but neither provides feedback of any real sort. The student with two grades on his paper guesses he needs improvement but doesn’t now how to improve (because there is no need, of course, to encourage TFs to provide substantive qualitative remarks or to encourage professors to interact more with students). Likewise, the employer with two numbers on a student’s transcript guesses that student didn’t have to work hard for that common seminar A but doesn’t know...
Eckert said TFs are more likely to put effort into the section if the students are engaged...
...fear that my accent is the only thing that makes me interesting, I have resolutely refused to soften it. Saturday mornings are still spent huddled over my computer screen, “watching” the text updates from the soccer games back in England. Any number of TFs and Crimson proofers still chastise me for using the word “whilst.” I can’t quite bring myself to give up taking notes in fountain pen and I am still tempted to stop and explain the fundamental principles of grammar to anyone who tells...