Graduate Students

2020 Mar 23

General Section Advice

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Led by Pamela Pollock and/or Sarah Emory and Rebecca Brown, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

Join this session to explore remote teaching resources together, have a chance to raise questions and hear ideas from other TFs, and try out the features of Zoom to see what your students will experience when you teach. We hope the session will help you feel more comfortable using online resources and teaching via Zoom.

2020 Mar 23

General Section Advice

10:00am to 11:00am

Led by Pamela Pollock and/or Sarah Emory and Rebecca Brown, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

Join this session to explore remote teaching resources together, have a chance to raise questions and hear ideas from other TFs, and try out the features of Zoom to see what your students will experience when you teach. We hope the session will help you feel more comfortable using online resources and teaching via Zoom.

2020 Mar 19

General Section Advice

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Led by Pamela Pollock and/or Sarah Emory and Rebecca Brown, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

Join this session to explore remote teaching resources together, have a chance to raise questions and hear ideas from other TFs, and try out the features of Zoom to see what your students will experience when you teach. We hope the session will help you feel more comfortable using online resources and teaching via Zoom.

2020 Mar 18

General Section Advice

2:00pm

 

Led by Pamela Pollock and/or Sarah Emory and Rebecca Brown, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

Join this session to explore remote teaching resources together, have a chance to raise questions and hear ideas from other TFs, and try out the features of Zoom to see what your students will experience when you teach. We hope the session will help you feel more comfortable using online resources and teaching via Zoom.

 

 

2020 Apr 14

Online Writing Assignments with Scalar

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Location: 

https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqf-itpz0uwvrL0vc6VTKb8KzVFrDm3g

Introducing multimedia assignments into a class for the first time can seem intimidating. In this workshop, we will help you remediate an existing assignment in Scalar, a free, open source authoring and publishing platform designed to make it easy for authors and instructors to create born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required.

In this workshop, we will help you:...

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2020 Mar 30

Community Check-in: Connect and Chat

Repeats every week every Monday until Fri May 01 2020 .
3:00pm to 4:00pm

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The Professional Communication Program for International Teachers and Scholars is hosting an online venue to maintain the Bok Center values of community and collaboration during these unusual times, and to be an open space for international graduate students to talk with others in English. Drop by a chatroom on Mondays from 3:00-4:00 pm or on Fridays from 12:00-1:00 pm to connect with other graduate students and undergraduates in the Bok Center community, talk and meet with new people, and build connections!...

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2020 Apr 06

Teaching Languages

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Led by Sarah Emory and Pamela Pollock 

What tools are you using for remote language instruction? Talk with fellow language teachers about the challenges and successes of moving your language classroom online. 

TF Roundtables are hour-long community-focused sessions, where TFs can come together and share experiences navigating all the new challenges of being a remote TF. Bok Center leaders will kick off the sessions with key ideas and best practices, and will encourage participants to share activities they want to try out, get and give advice, and...

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2020 Apr 10

Keep it up! Maintaining Motivation for You and Your Students

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Led by Rebecca Brown

How can you stay motivated and help your students stay plugged into the class through the end of the semester? With new grading rules, modified capstones, assessment and exams, how can we foster student motivation to learn for learning’s sake? Share ideas for keeping yourself engaged and boosting motivation among students while teaching and learning remotely.

TF Roundtables are hour-long community-focused sessions, where TFs can come together and share experiences navigating all the new challenges of being a remote TF. Bok Center leaders will...

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2020 Apr 03

Keep it up! Maintaining Motivation for You and Your Students

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Led by Rebecca Brown

How can you stay motivated and help your students stay plugged into the class through the end of the semester? With new grading rules, modified capstones, assessment and exams, how can we foster student motivation to learn for learning’s sake? Share ideas for keeping yourself engaged and boosting motivation among students while teaching and learning remotely.

TF Roundtables are hour-long community-focused sessions, where TFs can come together and share experiences navigating all the new challenges of being a remote TF. Bok Center leaders will...

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2020 Apr 09

Teaching STEM Sections

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Led by Marty Samuels

What strategies are you using for your STEM sections? Whether you are sharing slides, having students share whiteboards in breakout rooms, using Zoom polls or thumbs up/ thumbs down, or using Canvas discussion boards asynchronously, share your activities and ideas with other STEM TFs and bring your questions! 

TF Roundtables are hour-long community-focused sessions, where TFs can come together and share experiences navigating all the new challenges of being a remote TF. Bok Center leaders will kick off the sessions with key ideas and best...

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2020 Apr 02

Teaching STEM Sections

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Led by Marty Samuels

What strategies are you using for your STEM sections? Whether you are sharing slides, having students share whiteboards in breakout rooms, using Zoom polls or thumbs up/ thumbs down, or using Canvas discussion boards asynchronously, share your activities and ideas with other STEM TFs and bring your questions! 

TF Roundtables are hour-long community-focused sessions, where TFs can come together and share experiences navigating all the new challenges of being a remote TF. Bok Center leaders will kick off the sessions with key ideas and best...

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2020 Apr 08

What Can You Flip?

11:00am to 12:00pm

Led by Sarah Emory and Rebecca Brown

Share ideas and bring your questions about what course materials and activities can be transitioned into different formats and online platforms.

TF Roundtables are hour-long community-focused sessions, where TFs can come together and share experiences navigating all the new challenges of being a remote TF. Bok Center leaders will kick off the sessions with key ideas and best practices, and will encourage participants to share activities they want to try out, get and give advice, and brainstorm new ideas.

This...

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2020 Apr 08

Building Rapport and Engagement

10:00am to 11:00am

Led by Pamela Pollock and Rebecca Brown

Join in this roundtable to share ideas and test out strategies for active learning and encouraging student engagement in your online section. 

TF Roundtables are hour-long community-focused sessions, where TFs can come together and share experiences navigating all the new challenges of being a remote TF. Bok Center leaders will kick off the sessions with key ideas and best practices, and will encourage participants to share activities they want to try out, get and give advice, and brainstorm new ideas.

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2020 Apr 06

Checking in with Students

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Led by Sarah Emory and Pamela Pollock

Open communication with students is more important than ever! Get ideas for how to get and give feedback remotely. 

These 30-minute skill-focused sessions are designed to help TFs to brush up on or practice a Zoom feature or teaching technique. Bok Center leaders will kick off the sessions with a brief demonstration, followed by time to ask questions and brainstorm how you can use or adapt these techniques to your classes.

2020 Apr 09

Engagement and Polling

10:00am to 11:00am

Led by Rebecca Brown

Get ideas for short activities to do via Zoom to warm up the class and foster engagement, including using polls (in Zoom or Poll Everywhere). 

These 30-minute skill-focused sessions are designed to help TFs to brush up on or practice a Zoom feature or teaching technique. Bok Center leaders will kick off the sessions with a brief demonstration, followed by time to ask questions and brainstorm how you can use or adapt these techniques to your classes.

This workshop is aimed at Harvard Teaching Fellows. Registration is free but...

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