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Nevertheless, the steps proposed in the report are inadequate. The committee’s recommendations for improving the quality of Teaching Fellows (TFs), for instance, are dubious at best. The report recommends that fellowships be created for outstanding TFs and that training in assisting with and evaluating written and oral presentations be required of all TFs. But while fellowships might inspire the best TFs to work harder, it is hard to imagine the unlikely prospect of a fellowship transforming indifferent TFs into motivated ones. Moreover, the type of generalized (read: fluffy) pedagogical training TFs are likely to receive...
Four new Houses mean at least 1,500 new undergraduates. Imagine what this will mean for academics. More mediocre Teaching Fellows (TFs) will assume teaching duties, professors will be less accessible and intro-course class sizes will balloon beyond Sanders Theatre’s capacity. On the plus side, Harvard athletics will get a boost when Ec 10 students stay after class—now held in the Harvard Stadium—and actually sell out a home football game. Scraping the bottom of the barrel for TFs and sending class sizes higher and higher does not sound like...
...It’s a little bit easier for me [to teach a large lecture course] because I have more TFs to do the grading and explaining again to students and that sort of thing. I just get up there and talk for two hours a week,” he says. “But when the class is small, you end up narrating less and engaging in less monologue, but you have to be prepared for a lot more dialogue...
...meal) are akin to those other secretly thrilling yet entirely unexpected epiphanies of college life, like the delightfully gooey sugar cookies that Harvard University Dining Services occasionally bestows in an act of mercy on the hungover masses at Sunday brunch, or to use a section-related analogy, those blessed TFs (usually found in the English department) who decide that extension requests are not only to be granted, but are to be granted sans sanctimonious sighs as a Good Thing...
Perhaps it’s time for Harvard students to realize that the problem of sections is not inept TFs or a lack of compelling topics; instead, it is our own unwillingness to contribute...