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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The teaching is quite poor. Hopkins operates under a different model than most US schools, so there are a lot of young inexperienced grad students providing the instruction (not as TAs but as the instructor).[/quote]

This is not correct.
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My info is based on having taught there as a 22 yo master's student with no teaching experience. I was the instructor for a freshman comp type course - students had no contact with a professor or anybody other than me. I went to a well regarded college and couldn't believe what a crappy course they were getting for similar tuition dollars.[/quote]

Sounds like a writing seminar class, those are classes in which student write various pieces of fiction and then they do peer review.  The TA is there primarily as a facilitator of a class of less than 15 students.  sounds like you were the wrong person for the job, I took the class many years ago, my Ta was fantastic and had tremendous literary success ( several published works of fiction).  I guess. If I had  you for an instructor I may have  had a different experience, did you not expect to be teaching Asa graduate student-- peer review is typically at the core of graduate writing classes as well..
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