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Responding to student complaints about incomprehensible and underqualified teaching fellows (TFs), the Faculty Council in March adopted a TF training plan which gave departments the power to determine their own standards and regulations...
...plan was presented to the council by Dean for Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell after his initial proposal for centralized testing of all TFs and special training for all non-native English speaking TFs was rejected...
Faculty Council members said they hoped that the plan they passed, which could take effect as early as early as 1995, would ensure both language proficiency and general teaching skills of all prospective TFs...
...taking a more comprehensive step toward ensuring that TFs are properly trained and supervised, and in particular that language skills are addressed," Buell said in March...
...point was not (as your quote suggests) that such manuals are irrelevant; my point was that Harvard's resources for TFs extend far beyond a mere manual. If the manual were the only resource available to TFs, the Core program would be in trouble indeed. But Clearly that is very far from the case...