Word: toteaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Many junior faculty members complain thestringent tenure process provides disincentives toteach here, and some department chairs concede ithampers their recruitment efforts. They alsoobject to the secrecy which shrouds the process...
...tend to get more out of interacting with the[teaching fellows] than the professors," he says."When I got to office hours with my TF I get abetter understanding of what they're trying toteach and the writing style they're looking for,and it's interesting to have a more indepthconversation [about the course material...
...Campbell seems to have handled most of thepractical education. Brad says his father taughthim how to fire a gun when he was in second gradebecause "he thought it was irresponsible not toteach a child gun safety." The family keeps 50Angus cattle on its property, and Brad wasexpected to help out. Brad did, though he didn'talways seem enthusiastic. "He doesn't seem to havea big love of working with animals," Joan Says...
...Fini, who has worked in Harvard's mathdepartment for 17 years, said she recognizes theproblems inherent in assigning foreign-born TFs toteach sections...
These courses address issues such as how toteach the first lesson and how to make thestudents feel comfortable. The department alsoasks its graduate students to do "mini-teaching,"or teaching on a small scale, before entering aclassroom...