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...harvest its organs to save five human lives? “What about 100 pigs to save 1 person?” says Sunstein, In the end, the panel left the audience to draw its own conclusions. FM offers this: Don’t torture kittens to compel TFs to reveal final exam answers—unless maybe it’s for a huge lecture class...
...part through teaching fellowships and offer excellent teacher training to our PhDs. But teaching fellowships have been tied, in a cookie-cutter fashion, to lecture-course sections enrolling 15 to 18 undergraduates apiece. Faculty are often loath to try new course formats for fear of not employing enough TFs; and graduate students do not develop a full range of pedagogical skills. As reform proceeds, the College and the Graduate School must encourage additional, more flexible deployment of teaching fellows, not to substitute for faculty engagement with undergraduates, but to allow TFs to partner with faculty in seminars that combine lectures...
Despite the controversy surrounding her, we might never know whether Skocpol would have served capably as FAS dean. We are, however, appreciative of the job she has done as GSAS dean. Because of her initative, for example, the GSAS will require mandatory English testing for TFs starting next fall, in large part due to frequently voiced students complaints about their inability to comprehend their section leader. She has also been a strong advocate for mandatory TF evaluations in order to hold TFs accountable for their performance...
...whom are undergraduates this year. “I really like the opportunity to expose other people to Swahili,” Pillsbury says. “It’s a language I think is important to learn.”While most Harvard students equate TFs with graduate students who spare just enough time to teach sections and hold office hours, the Swahili arrangement is an exception to the rule. Despite their youth, students say the TFs are capable and appreciate their willingness to relate on both an academic and a personal level.“It?...
...should admit that the problem does not lie wholly with our TFs so much as with the sheer stupidity that students think they can get away with. I wish I had a dime for every time I saw a TF’s flaccid, feigned smile of approbation, that muttering of “good” or “interesting” every time another student weighs in with a complete non-sequitur...