Richmond points to the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, a cluster of classrooms on the third floor of the Science Center.
There, newly minted teaching fellows are taught their craft, integrating the practical--how to quiet that yammering know-it-all gov jock--to the theoretical--minority students are sometimes shortchanged by traditional pedagogy.
For Richmond and other students, the Bok Center links the discipline of teaching to graduate education.
"It provides us with resources that we can use, if and when we don't know what to do in terms of our own teaching," Richmond says.
Though TFs and grad students admit they'd like to make more money, many say that they are paid enough.
Richmond says that most Harvard's TFs feel they are fairly compensated.
The entry-level salary for graduate student teachers, who usually begin to TF in their third year, hovers around $14,680, said Russell Berg, dean of GSAS admissions and financial aid.
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