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...economics gets more complex there is an increased importance of team courses," Williamson says. "Lots of people teach together and you can't do that without a high regard for each other's abilities...
...cites Dillon Professor of International Affairs Jorge I. Dominguez and Professor of Music Thomas S. Kelly, who both teach large core classes, as examples of teachers who actively encourage their students to join them for meals...
...find in trying to administer a College-wide system of education. Thousands of us fulfill Core requirements each semester, but it often seems as though the Core Office treats those requirements the same way we do: as classes to check off the list, not as individual golden opportunities to teach students something new. The Core is at the bottom of everyone's priority list, and that lack of concern shows most clearly in the inexperience of many teaching fellows called on to teach in classes where they have no expertise...
Here's the problem: Graduate students are specialists in certain areas--that's why they're grad students. They came here to learn a discipline to be able to teach it on a college level, and while they may be a little rocky starting out, they'll most likely improve their pedagogy as years go by if they're teaching what they know. But if you take a young grad student who's never taught before and throw her or him into a class on a subject about which he or she is even vaguely uncertain, it's a recipe...
...board of education. Though the program is voluntary for now, administrators expect all teachers to draw on it. And they're pushing it on poorly performing teachers and the thousands of rookie teachers and substitutes who flow into the district each year, many of whom are asked to teach subjects for which they were not trained. "As a new teacher, I like it because it does all the brainstorming for you," says Estes. And proponents point to higher test scores in schools that adopt the scripted method. But critics charge that it saps teachers and students of creativity and spontaneity...