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...until 2007, there existed no standard method of screening the language skills of foreign TFs. Departments used their own methods of preparing section leaders, ranging from courses that count for credit to a simple day-long workshop at the Bok Center, according to Assistant Dean of the College Logan S. McCarty...
McCarty—who has worked in the Office of Undergraduate Education since 2007—says he has noticed a decrease in undergraduate complaints about their TFs’ language skills, and a rise in CUE guide scores for foreign...
...Center has recently reemphasized its focus on acclimating the foreign TF through the new semester-long course that utilizes undergraduate perspectives to help graduate students better understand the Harvard classroom...
...classroom, eight GSAS students sit with two undergraduates and discuss cultural issues and current events, says course head Pamela Pollock, who is working on a dissertation about foreign students’ experiences in the American graduate school system...
...Harvard, foreign TFs face pedagogical and cultural differences that do not always stem from insufficient language skills, Maurer says...