Faculty

2024 Mar 19

Teaching Statement Workshop for Faculty

2:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Zoom

What makes a teaching statement compelling? Insightful? Original? How can you translate your lived experience in the classroom into a cogent narrative on the page? What is the difference between a statement that shows the reader your approach, and one that merely tells the reader what you value?

Whether you are on the job market, up for reappointment or promotion, a nominee for a teaching award, or just looking for an opportunity to step back and reflect on your teaching, the Bok Center is here to help you draft a teaching statement that is authentic to your...

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Bringing Generative AI to the Harvard Classroom

Bringing Generative AI to the Harvard Classroom

January 29, 2024

During the fall of 2023, teams from the Bok Center visited 18 departments and programs across Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences to offer a 60-minute workshop on generative AI and its applications for teaching and learning. Tailored to the disciplinary contexts of both faculty and Teaching Fellows/Teaching Assistants, the workshops featured interactive demonstrations showcasing how instructors could take advantage of generative AI to improve their teaching methods and how students could be guided to utilize AI for enhanced learning experiences. We’ve shown Statistics...

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New Thank-a-Teacher Program

January 24, 2024

In Fall 2023 the Bok Center launched a Thank-a-Teacher program to elevate students’ appreciation for their instructors, as part of our goal of celebrating teaching in the FAS. We asked students: Do you have an instructor who is making a difference in your life? The response was overwhelming, with over 100 thank you notes from both undergraduate and graduate students!

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2024 Apr 18

STEM Journal Club - Balancing Technology, Pedagogy and the New Normal: Post-pandemic Challenges for Higher Education

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

125 Mt. Auburn St, 3rd floor

Join us for the last STEM Journal Club meeting of the spring semester, focused on the educational upheavals caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, particularly focusing on the shift to emergency remote teaching (ERT).

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2024 Apr 04

STEM Journal Club - Motivation, Pedagogy, and Gender: Examining the Multifaceted and Dynamic Situational Responses of Women and Men in College STEM Courses

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

125 Mt. Auburn St, 3rd floor

Join us for the fifth STEM Journal Club meeting of the spring semester, focused on a study that sheds light on the intricate relationship between student motivations, gender identity, and classroom pedagogy in STEM education.

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2024 Mar 07

STEM Journal Club - Toward an Inclusive Pedagogy Through Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education: A Review of the Literature

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

125 Mt. Auburn St, 3rd floor

Join us for the third STEM Journal Club meeting of the spring semester, focused on exploring the growing influence of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in higher education.

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2024 Feb 22

STEM Journal Club - Internet-of-Things Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Assessment for STEM Education: A Review of Literature

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

125 Mt. Auburn St, 3rd floor

Join us for the second STEM Journal Club meeting of the spring semester, focused on how the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution is nudging educational institutions to equip students with the skills they'll need for this tech-savvy future.

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Supporting Visiting Faculty

November 27, 2023

Did your EALC student submit his DAO letter by Fifth Monday?

When you talked to ATG and ESS about AV support for your lecture in CGIS, did they ask for a 33-digit billing code?

Can I print my paper at the SOCH on my way to the QRAC?

Every university speaks its own language, its own distinctive lexicon full of rapidfire acronyms and well-worn campus shorthand that separates those who are in-the-know from... Read more about Supporting Visiting Faculty

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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2024 Apr 17

Dudley Herschbach Teacher/Scientist Lecture 2023-24

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

12 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138, Pfizer Lecture Hall

Invited speaker: Tracy Johnson, Keith and Cecilia Terasaki Presidential Endowed Chair Professor, Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology
Dean, Life Sciences, UCLA College

More to come soon!

 

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