Repeats every week every Thursday until Fri May 05 2023 .
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
9:00am to 9:30am
Location:
Alleyway entrance to Harvest Restaurant, 44 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
NB: This morning's walk is cancelled due to inclement weather
Looking for a way to get your day off to a good start and connect with colleagues about your teaching victories and questions? Join a rotating crew of Bok Center staff for a weekly morning walk, every Thursday morning from 9:00–9:30 (weather permitting). We’ll meet in the alley at the entrance to the Harvest Restaurant and walk 1–2 bridges along the river before returning to campus. Bring the stories you’re dying to...
Led by: Marlon Kuzmick, Director of the Learning Lab, and the Bok Learning Lab Team
How do you use visuals to help your audience develop a schema to understand your work? In this session, you will explore how to communicate your work visually, and how visuals communicate structure to help your audience understand the main idea, whether you are teaching or presenting your research. You will explore the different roles visuals can play in a talk, analyze examples, learn some key principles of visual design, and practice with different tools to communicate...
Led by: Sarah Emory, Assistant Director, International Teachers and Scholars
Are you a TF who got your undergraduate degree at an institution outside the U.S.? If so, you may have questions about teaching undergraduates at Harvard. How might the undergraduate experience here differ from your own experience? As an International TF, what do you need to know to navigate teaching at Harvard? In this interactive panel discussion, you will have the opportunity to explore issues related to teaching across borders and boundaries and hear from Harvard...
Led by: Pamela Pollock, Director of Professional Development
How do you respond when someone asks you what you are working on? How can you describe your high-level research to your introductory students? Do you struggle to get out of the weeds and explain the big picture? In this session we will build upon what you learned in Erika Bailey’s Engaged Communication session to practice and get feedback on communicating your research. We consider how the basic principles of good pedagogy are also the basic principles of effective and engaging speaking: having...
Led by: Jonah Johnson, Assistant Director, Writing Pedagogy
From an instructor’s perspective, students’ progress from “doing the readings” to “turning in the paper” can feel like a black box: How do reading and class discussion turn into words on the page? In this session, we will bring that process out into the light, modeling practical approaches to writing assignments that will help your students engage with every stage of the writing process—from class discussion itself to formulating a possible thesis to working with evidence to other pre-draft...
How do you plan a section or a syllabus? Where should you start as you look at the material you want to cover as a teacher, learner, or scholar? This workshop introduces a method of curriculum planning called backwards design. The idea is simple: you can’t start planning how you’re going to teach (or learn, or write) until you know what your goals are. What should students be able to do at the end of a section? At the end of a course? Backward design can help you articulate your goals and objectives and decide on...
Led by: Lauren Sullivan, Bok Pedagogy Fellow, and other experienced TFs
Developing as a teacher means learning from yourself and your peers, as well as having some teaching mentors. In this interactive panel discussion, we will explore our approaches to 1) defining teaching goals and priorities, 2) aligning teacher and student expectations, 3) building supportive and motivated classrooms, and 4) leveraging your identity as a teacher to energize your teaching and your students’ connection to the material.
As a graduate student, poised at an early stage of your academic career, you are accustomed to being on the receiving end of mentoring. You’ve probably developed a sense of the kinds of advice, interactions, and power dynamics that are helpful (as well as those that aren’t). Soon, if not already, the tables may turn, and you will be called upon to mentor others—whether a senior thesis advisee at Harvard, a group of undergraduates or graduate students in your first academic job, or the staff of a lab at a...
Led by: Ashlie Sandoval, Assistant Director, Equity & Inclusion
Even in the best-designed courses challenging moments can still emerge. Instructors and students might be tasked with engaging with materials or comments that conflict with their worldview; they may encounter or perpetuate microaggressions in the classroom; or they may become activated by course content. When classroom discussions and activities result in unforeseeable, unintended, or unwanted outcomes, those moments can be stressful for instructors. How can you stay present and...
Led by: Flavia Perea, Director, Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship Caitlin Schmid, Assistant Director of Engaged Scholarship, Mindich Program in Engaged Scholarship
Engaged scholarship integrates civic and community engagement into undergraduate education through an emphasis on civic purpose—an intention to contribute to the world beyond the self. How can you teach content to encourage consideration of ethics? How can your pedagogy help students learn to responsibly apply their knowledge to real-world situations? In this session, we will...
Led by: Pamela Pollock, Director of Professional Development
As scholars, we are always developing our research, but how do we think about learning and growing as a teacher? In this session, we will consider how to set teaching development goals and what tools we can use to gauge our progress. We will learn a framework for reflective teaching to explore these questions and build our teaching toolkit considering what we can learn from 1) self, 2) students, 3) colleagues, and 4) scholarship. TFs who want to learn more are invited to our new Bok Seminar in...
Come have lunch with us, learn more about our programming and resources, and explore ways to engage with us as a PhD student! We will share an overview of our programming for PhD students, including Bok Seminars and Teaching Certificates, the Professional Communication Program for International Teachers and Scholars, and our Fellows Programs. Learn more about our resources to support your teaching and communication goals, no matter your discipline or stage of your graduate career.
Growth mindset—the belief that your skills and intelligence are malleable and can be improved with hard work and practice—has been shown to be a vital aspect of learning. In this session, we will focus on developing a growth mindset for ourselves and for our students, and why both are important. You will leave with concrete strategies for helping students focus on how to thrive—rather than just survive—in their college classes by considering themselves on a journey towards developing new skills and knowledge in...
Led by: Ashlie Sandoval, Assistant Director, Equity & Inclusion
Are you a teaching fellow who could benefit from a moment to slow down, relax, and recharge? Come join us in this mindfulness session. Mindfulness is about cultivating the ability to be fully present, observing the moments of your life with curiosity and openness, without being distracted by regrets of the past or worries about the future. For this session, we’ll explore the concept and practice of mindfulness by engaging in guided mindfulness meditations, and we’ll conclude with tips on...
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