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Mark Hatzenbuehler

Destigmatizing Pedagogy

November 1, 2023

While some faculty come to the Bok Center for help in getting started on designing a new course or trying a new teaching technique, many of the 150+ faculty with whom we consult every year arrive already equipped with an ambitious plan informed by years of experience creating transformative learning experiences for their students. In those cases, we are happy to partner with faculty to hone and scale their plans, whether it’s the choreography of a single in-class activity or the logistics of supporting students through a semester-long research project involving multiple types...

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Pedagogy Fellows 2023-24: Teaching and Learning in Community

Pedagogy Fellows 2023-24: Teaching and Learning in Community

June 2, 2023

This year marks the 18th cohort of the Bok Center’s Pedagogy Fellows Program, a collaboration between the Bok Center, academic departments, and the Office of Undergraduate Education. Each year, we teach more than 25 Pedagogy Fellows to be teaching consultants, to identify needs and develop resources on teaching and professional development for their peers, and, in many cases, to lead their departments’ pedagogy courses. The program aims to support all Harvard PhD students in their roles as undergraduate teachers, and to provide a cohort of excellent graduate student teachers with the...

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Learn, Practice, Reflect, and Celebrate!

Learn, Practice, Reflect, and Celebrate!

May 2, 2023

At our Bok Graduate Community Celebration on April 28, we were excited to honor this year’s Teaching Certificate recipients and all of the graduate students who engaged in our programming over the past year. Students from Bok Seminars, the Professional Communication Program for International Teachers and Scholars, and Bok Fellows programs joined us to share their experiences and connect with fellow graduate students.... Read more about Learn, Practice, Reflect, and Celebrate!

New Bok Center Publication on the Learning Lab

New Bok Center Publication on the Learning Lab

April 4, 2023

We are pleased to share that we contributed a chapter to a new book, In their own words: What scholars and teachers want you to know about why and how to apply the science of learning in your academic setting. This ebook, which is published online by the Society for the Teaching of Psychology, explores scholarship on the science of learning and its applications to higher education. In the chapter, “The Learning Lab: An Experiment in Student-Centered  Teaching and Learning,” written by...

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Christine D'Auria, Assistant Director of the Learning Lab, demonstrating a VR headset.

Media & Design Fellow Supports New Video Games Course

March 8, 2023

Carly Yingst, this year’s Media & Design Fellow in English, designed and facilitated an interactive, multi-station workshop for Professor Vidyan Ravinthiran’s course English 189VG: Video Game Storytelling. The Harvard Gazette featured the course, describing the workshop Carly took the lead in designing:

“As part of the curriculum, students attended a workshop hosted by The Bok Center’s Learning Lab, which sought to provide insight into the technical side of gaming. One...

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