Word: tutors
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...effort to encourage exam-weary students to participate in the online tutor survey, College administrators extended the period that students can evaluate their tutors through the weekend...
This blatant call for the suppression of minority opinions resulted from a tutor-sponsored talk on “tolerance,” and Green’s eagerness to silence Pappin should cause us all to wonder just what sort of tolerance these decriers of hate speech have in mind. On the surface, Green and the other tutors who sponsored the meeting are advocating respect for people’s differences. But in reality, their disrespect for Pappin’s right to disagree with their vision of inclusiveness indicates a dangerous and corrupted definition of tolerance: respect only...
...present system of tutor evaluation is very much informal, and certainly not something that can be captured in a sequence of integers from 1 to 5. Our Allston Burr Senior Tutor Catherine R. Shapiro and my wife Ann and I are always eager to hear about how our tutors are doing. We get a lot of comments from students on the subject and we would welcome even more. In January, we meet with each tutor or tutor couple separately, and discuss how the students in their entry and their sophomore advisees are doing. We also ask about their own progress...
...have discussed the issue of tutor evaluation with the tutors at some length over the last year. They would welcome more feedback. They try to do their best for the students and would like to know how to do better. But almost all feel that feedback should be personal, not anonymous and numerical, because their relationship with the students is personal—not like the relationship between student and teaching fellow. And they agree with me that learning to give such feedback to people who care about you is an important part of growing...
...really do think of Leverett House—students, tutors and staff—as a kind of extended family. It is because I want Leverett House to be a family that I am very reluctant to go along with any sort of numerical tutor evaluation scheme. We always want student input. But if there is a problem in a family, the solution is to have open, honest communication, not to have everyone fill out forms about everyone else...