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...classes with hundreds of students or those with a late exam, the task of grading can seem daunting. Professors and TFs have established their own rites and strategies to ease the process...
...Classroom experiences are not always what students, faculty, administrators, TFs, or TAs would ideally like them to be. I know that the adviser/advisee matches made in freshman and sophomore year and in concentrations for general and thesis advising are not always perfect. But, I also know that this community is made up of human beings who have a lot in common. We are all moved by our love of learning and see ourselves as works in progress. We all experience love and loss, joy and sorrow. We all take our world—both inside and outside our gates?...
...power, and epidemic influenza. With all this on-campus excitement, and the promise of home looming, who can think about school right now? There is so much on our minds right now that it would be all too easy to completely forget about that last midterm. Hopefully our TFs also share in our seasonal charity and goodwill, but I wouldn’t count on it. This is why Harvard’s idiosyncratic calendar is a good thing, and why students will come to miss January finals when they eventually disappear. In addition to making us feel both elitist...
...usher Harvard’s course evaluation system into a new and more effective era.The chief fault of the current course evaluation system is that professors are not required to open their courses up to evaluation by students. The opportunity for students to evaluate their professors and Teaching Fellows (TFs) is an unusual role-reversal that allows for reflection and pedagogical improvement, not simply for what Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 notoriously called “the rule of the less wise over the more wise, of students over professors.” Ratings also...
...president, I can’t promise you that classes will be better, professors will be better, TFs will be better,” Martel says, continuing her critique...