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Currently, there is no way for professors to know in advance the size of their classes, hence teaching fellows (TFs) and teaching assistants (non-graduate students hired as teachers) sometimes have to be laid-off for under-enrolled classes...
Jones Professor of Classical Greek Literature Gregory Nagy, teacher of "Literature and Arts C-14: The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization," an ardent supporter of pre-registration for Core classes, says that trying to train his TFs after the course has begun can often end up "shortchanging both the teacher and the student...
...want to be able to supervise the proper training for your TFs," Nagy says. "It is really a kind of seminar situation where, unlike concentration courses, you have to start almost a new apprenticeship...
What can the University do? Very little in terms of educating TFs. The Bok Center is useful, but it cannot transform the majority of graduate students into stellar teaching fellows...
...University should do is require all of its professors to teach an undergraduate section for every lecture class. It should encourage seniors to participate in graduate sections with the professor. It should implement a system so that teaching fellows for courses are assigned thoughtfully--say, all first-year TFs should teach survey courses. And it should base TF hiring on CUE Guide ratings...