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...start with the disclaimer that I have had a few stellar TFs who even managed to run a half-decent section, usually in the English department. Not only do English TFs usually speak intelligible—even eloquent—English, they also seem to have a genuine passion for the literature they teach, much of which is pretty boring...
More than a week after the Undergraduate Council (UC) established an e-mail hotline for student feedback on teaching fellow (TF) performance, TFs, administrators, and the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning have been reluctant to fully endorse the program. UC president Ryan A. Petersen ’08 and Bok Center Director James Wilkinson have discussed the possibility of the Center providing training for the undergraduate board charged with synthesizing and acting on student feedback. The Center oversees TF training and reform. In a swift response to a Feb. 14 Crimson op-ed co-authored by Petersen stating...
...glacial pace, Petersen and Sundquist led the UC in acting unilaterally. They created a Harvard Computer Services e-mail account to act as an anonymous tip line and opened it to students, promising that a committee of four undergraduates would assemble the information and present it to problem TFs. Unfortunately, the line may have been launched a bit too quickly; though a good idea in principle, it could be ruined by its hasty implementation. Who are the students on the other end of the hotline and how are they chosen? Are complaints gathered in aggregate for a course, or just...
...uncompleted promises, three big victories would constitute a successful year at the helm of the UC.Petersen and Sundquist have wasted little time with pleasantries and have hit the ground running. The UC opened a promised teaching hotline where students can e-mail concerns about their teaching fellows (TFs) one week after Petersen’s inauguration . Crimson Reading, a Web site co-founded by Hadfield that allows students to compare textbook prices, has been adopted by the UC, updated for the spring semester classes and now lists over 95 percent of spring textbooks. Despite respective objections from some faculty members...
...true that the Bok Center has long supported feedback on teaching and communication among students, their TFs, and faculty to improve the quality of learning in FAS. For several years we have posted a variety of forms and templates for “early evaluations,” written and electronic, on our web site. These are used at the discretion of course heads and TFs to elicit student input about the progress of the course and the way it is taught. In addition, we have long been involved in helping faculty and TFs interpret CUE data from their courses...