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Quick Tips on Teaching
Heidi Tworek, the Departmental Teaching Fellow for History, shares her quick tip on teaching. What warm-up activities/exercises have you used in section? Filed under: Learning from Experience Tagged:...
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Quick Tips on Teaching
Erin Blevins, the Departmental Teaching Fellow for Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, shares her quick tip on teaching. How do you conduct a review session? Filed under: Learning from Experience...
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Quick Tips on Paper Feedback
We’re swiftly approaching the end of the semester, which means those stacks of papers/problem sets/final exams will soon be piling up. If you’re interested in saving time, improving the quality of the...
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Keeping it Real: The Limits of Virtual Learning
Today’s guest post comes from Matthew Mugmon, a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology, and former Departmental TF for Music. Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t let my students use laptops in sections. Wait —...
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Undergrad TFs: The Good, the Bad and the Awkward
This is the second in a series of posts by Anna G., a junior at Harvard who teaches one section and also serves as assistant head-TF for CS-51. At Harvard, most Teaching Fellows (TFs) are graduate...
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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...
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From 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:...
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I 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....
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Suffering 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...
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Have 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...
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New 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...
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Confronting 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....
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Teaching 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...
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Applying 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...
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The 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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