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Teaching fellows (TFs) will find it difficult to skip lectures of classes they teach if either one of the proposals considered yesterday by the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) is approved by the Faculty Council...
...options were discussed at the meeting and both will be placed before the Faculty Council: a rigid rule requiring TFs to attend lectures and an accompanying proposal which would allow instructors to excuse TFs from lectures only under certain circumstances...
Arguments against the rigid rule focused on two reasons TFs miss lectures: class conflicts and enough familiarity with the material that hearing a lecture may be a waste of time...
...also said that in his own experienceteaching in the chemistry department, it wentwithout saying that TFs were to attend lecture...
...courses at Harvard that I evertaught...all the TFs were present at all thelectures if one was teaching a large undergraduatecourse," Knowles said. "Then it was important forthe TFs to know what was said and how concepts hadbeen explained