Word: tutor
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Otto F. Coontz, assistant to the Adams senior tutor, offered the use of his dog Pip to scare the mice back into their holes just long enough for students to cover the entrance points...
...believe that your Jan. 6 editorial on house tutor evaluations misrepresented my position (Staff editorial, "All Tutors Need Feedback...
There are some obvious advantages to having a very formal tutor evaluation procedure, perhaps even (though this is much less obvious) one based on numerical rankings. But there are also some clear negatives. I believe that for Leverett House, the negatives outweigh the positives, which is why we have not participated...
...very grateful to the other Masters for allowing Leverett to go our own way on this. In spite of randomization, the Houses retain distinct personalities determined by their architecture and geography. Leverett is unusual in having a large number of married tutor suites. In part because of this, our tutors tend to be older and more mature than resident tutors at other Houses. Some raise kids in the House. This contributes to a homey, family atmosphere at Leverett that I love and have tried to nurture...
...Each tutor contributes to House life in several different ways. Very few of the students see all the different things tutors are doing for the House. The tutors themselves form a community within the larger community of the House. The fact that they respect and trust and even like one another makes it easier for them to support one another in their efforts to support the students. One of the things that I worry about in a formal tutor evaluation system is that it might undermine this delicate feeling of tutor community...