Word: tutored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although the effectiveness of group tutorial is a quantitative problem, the success of a teaching fellow as a tutor depends directly on his quality as a teacher. The teaching fellow, without previous teaching experience, is expected to be neither a lecturer nor a question-asker, but to perform the nebulous task of stimulating his tutees' intellectual interest in the field, and to prepare the student for general examinations...
What is expected of the tutor is fairly clear, but how he is to accomplish it is left for the tutor to work out. Because only 254 of the 1,489 students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences possess Harvard degrees, very few of those who eventually act as tutors have had previous experience with the program at all. Except for an occasional Harvard graduate who picked up some of the technique from his undergraduate tutor, the teaching fellow has only the vaguest idea what he is doing...
Obviously, departmental briefing sessions do not insure good tutors anymore than a course insures good students. But the second-year graduate student who discovers himself a tutor would at least have the impession that the University took the program seriously and was sufficiently interested to communicate its broad purposes and the approach to effective student-teacher relationships...
Judges will be Miss Mildred Sherman, Dean of College Relations, William Whitehead '50, Adams House tutor, and Armour Craig, professor of English on leave from Amherst College...
After the election, he remained at Harvard as a lecturer and later as associate professor, on what was in his mind a trial basis. He was appointed Senior Tutor of Winthrop House in 1951, where he and his wife Mary lived until his elevation to the Deanship in 1953. During this period he wrote several foreign policy articles and edited a documentary record of Dean Acheson's utterances and strung them together with descriptive tissue...