Partnering with Faculty to Create Transformative Experiences

"When you’re putting together a course, you need to draw on more minds than your own." Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Prof. of History
Creating a Community of Graduate Student Teachers

The Bok Center offers graduate students more than professional development—it offers them a home beyond their departments.
Connecting Undergraduate Education to the World

The Bok Center's socially-engaged outreach programs help students take their coursework beyond the classroom.
Where Students Design their Own Educations

In the Learning Lab, undergraduates and graduates create experiences that are as magical as they are meaningful.
Seeing Across the Curriculum

The Bok Center's Research and Evaluation team helps a wide spectrum of clients measure and enhance their programming.

Faculty Lunch on Learning - April 1

Faculty are invited to participate in Faculty Lunch on Monday, April 1 at 12:00pm. Rachelle Gaudet will be leading a discussion on what to consider in developing visual aids that suit your goals and style as a scholarly communicator. RSVP

Current News

Fall 2018 Q Awards Announced

March 13, 2019

Recipients of the Certificate of Teaching Excellence and The Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for the Fall 2018 semester have been announced, and recipients will be honored at receptions in April. Click here for a list of recipients. Congratulations to these wonderful teachers!... Read more about Fall 2018 Q Awards Announced

ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize Application Now Open

February 27, 2019

The ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize celebrates Harvard University instructors for their development and use of active learning exercises in their classes, and we would love to post a teaching activity you used in class to the website.... Read more about ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize Application Now Open

Teaching Outside the Box: Learning Lab Fellow Featured in Colloquy

February 14, 2019

Caitlin Schmid, Bok Learning Lab Graduate Fellow and former Pedagogy Fellow in Music, is featured in the Winter 2019 edition of Colloquy, the Harvard GSAS alumni magazine. Check out the article... Read more about Teaching Outside the Box: Learning Lab Fellow Featured in Colloquy

Upcoming Events

2019 Mar 16

Spring Recess

Sat Mar 16 (All day) to Sun Mar 24 (All day)

2019 Apr 01

Faculty Lunch: How can you develop your own effective style for visual aids in teaching?

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

50 Church St. Room 308

Rachelle Gaudet, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology

Teaching is, among many other things, fundamentally an act of communication. To teach effectively, an instructor must be able to anticipate her students’ prior knowledge, and figure out how to render her own expertise legible to non-experts. Images and visualizations are often crucial to this act.... Read more about Faculty Lunch: How can you develop your own effective style for visual aids in teaching?

2019 Apr 11

Teaching Awards Reception for TFs, TAs and CAs

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location:

4th Floor Atrium, 50 Church Street, Cambridge, MA

A celebration of the recipients of the Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for the... Read more about Teaching Awards Reception for TFs, TAs and CAs

2019 Apr 15

Faculty Lunch: Title TBD

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

50 Church St. Room 308

Soyoung Lee, Landon and Lavinia Clay Chief Curator, Harvard Art Museums

More event details coming soon!

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2019 Apr 17

Pre-Texts Workshop

Repeats every weekday until Thu Apr 18 2019 .

4:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Bok Center, 125 Mt. Auburn St., 3rd Floor

3 sessions (in sequence)
Wednesday, April 17, 4:00-7:00pm
Thursday, April 18, 4:00-7:00pm
Tuesday, April 23, 4:00-7:00pm

The Bok Center and Professor Doris Sommer, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies, invite Faculty and Teaching Fellows interested in creative ways of engaging with texts to participate in a 3-session workshop to explore Pre-Texts for adaptation in the Harvard classroom.

Pre-Texts is pedagogical acupuncture. With the...

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Partnering with Faculty to Create Transformative Experiences

Creating a Community of Graduate Student Teachers

Connecting Undergraduate Education to the World

Where Students Design their Own Educations

Seeing Across the Curriculum

Faculty Lunch on Learning - April 1

Current News

Fall 2018 Q Awards Announced

ABLConnect Teaching Innovator Prize Application Now Open

Teaching Outside the Box: Learning Lab Fellow Featured in Colloquy

Upcoming Events

Spring Recess

Faculty Lunch: How can you develop your own effective style for visual aids in teaching?

Location:

Teaching Awards Reception for TFs, TAs and CAs

Location:

Faculty Lunch: Title TBD

Location:

Pre-Texts Workshop

Location:

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