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William N. Forster ’13, one of the undergraduates who assist the non-native speakers in the new course, recalls his foreign Life Science 1a teaching fellow’s struggle with communicating the basic concepts of biology.
In 2007, a GSAS committee’s recommendations ordered that all non-native English speaking graduate students be screened for competency in reading and speaking English—whether they anticipated teaching undergraduates or not.
TEACHING THE TEACHERS
She describes one teaching fellow for Social Analysis 10—the popular introductory economics course commonly known as Ec 10—who received subpar CUE guide scores and complaints about his language skills from students in his section.
When Maurer began working with the individual, she reviewed a film of one of his classes and found that language was not the problem—the TF was teaching at a level too high for the students, she says.