Word: task
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tournament also made things difficult: fencers face others in five-touch bouts in round-robin play and then compete in a final four. There was no way for Hagamen to run away with the title: he was going to have to work for it.But Hagamen was up to the task, fighting his way to the final bout against Ghattas. He went 19-3 in round-robin competition before the final bracket, good enough for first entering the final round. Ohio State’s Mike Momteselidze stood in his way in the semifinal bout, but Hagamen took care...
When I reflect on the Core classes that dot my transcript, the problem as I see it had little to do with what I was learning, and everything to do with how it was taught, an error of method, not of content. In this light, the Task Force’s report seems too erudite and abstract for the dilemma at hand, like trying to fix a broken down car with a new theory of locomotion. The proposed shift from “ways of knowing” to “real-world context” will do little...
Skocpol was chair of the Task Force on Teaching and Career Development, which recently issued a “Compact to Enhance Teaching and Learning at Harvard.” The report calls for teaching to have “major and equal weight” with research...
...three years since I graduated, I’ve thought at length about the strengths and weaknesses of Harvard’s general education program. As the College announced its reevaluation of the Core, I had hoped such weaknesses would be addressed in the Task Force on General Education’s final report. But the report was sorely disappointing, as it failed to address the greatest shortcoming of the Core: pedagogical methodology, not simply content...
When universities update their pedagogy, they almost always focus on content, not methods, just as the Task Force on General Education did with its final report. The real difference between past curccicula and today is in the things we learn, the replacement of theology with science and skepticism, and so on down the line. Yet even as the content of a liberal arts education has changed dramatically, there has been little effort to modernize methods accordingly...