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Weekly Responses: It’s All About the Prompt
Many courses assign them; too many undergraduates resent them as busy work. Weekly responses may be a fixture at Harvard, but they don’t have to be a chore – for students, or for the TFs who spend so...
View ArticleFrom TF to Course Head
For the last meeting of their year-long Teaching Colloquium and Pedagogy Practicum, third-year graduate students in the Music Department looked ahead to the next step in their professional development:...
View ArticleI Speak, Therefore I Am
With the 2012 Tony Awards airing this Sunday, the Bok Center is certainly rooting for former Radcliffe fellow John Tiffany and his Broadway musical “Once” which has been nominated for best musical....
View ArticleSuffering Fools Gladly?
by Pamela Pollock I’ve been thinking a lot about this David Brooks editorial I read last month. In the piece, Brooks discusses the dilemmas inherent in communicating with people we find foolish. He...
View ArticleHave you visited ABLConnect?
ABLConnect is an online active learning resource database. It was started in early 2012 by Assistant Professor Dustin Tingley and Ph.D. student Leslie Finger as part of the Program on Experience Based...
View ArticleNew Academic Year, New Academic Challenges
Here at Harvard, the Bureau of Study Counsel is a resource center for students’ academic and personal development. Bureau services include: academic/personal counseling, workshops and discussion...
View ArticleConfronting Sexist Language and Behaviors in the College Classroom
This post is part of the “Fair Harvard?” series by Aubry Threlkeld. A discussion about the Cultural Dimensions of Teaching and Learning at Harvard So I have been raging about two things recently....
View ArticleTeaching First-Generation College Students
My parents and grandparents never went away to college. Only my grandfather finished high school. My father, a sheet metal mechanic, rigger and crane operator, took a few college classes later in his...
View ArticleApplying the Science of Learning to the In-Classroom Experience
“Applying Science of Learning: Infusing Psychological Science into theCurriculum” is available as a free download fromhttp://teachpsych.org/Resources/Documents/ebooks/asle2014.pdf For a teacher to...
View ArticleThe Question of Creativity
Is it possible to teach creativity? And is this the primary task of higher education? A recent article in the New York Times has spotlighted the recent upsurge of “creativity studies” programs...
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