As we all prepare for another semester of teaching unsettled by the pandemic, you may be wondering what you can do as a Teaching Fellow to promote positive mental health outcomes for your students and fellow instructors while also...
Repeats every week on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday until Fri Feb 04 2022 except Mon Jan 17 2022.
10:30am to 11:30am
Location:
Online; see Zoom link in the description
Drop in to have representatives of Academic Technology, the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Harvard Library answer any of your questions about Canvas, Zoom, or technology in teaching.
This seminar is designed to help international graduate students develop the oral communication skills necessary to be successful in their graduate programs, with a particular emphasis on skills necessary for teaching in the Harvard classroom. Students will work on improving their oral English comprehensibility and accuracy, learn and practice general pedagogical strategies for teaching interactively, improve their impromptu speaking skills, and build their ability to interact effectively with undergraduates. The course is designed for students who have not...
Drop in to have representatives of Academic Technology, the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Harvard Library answer any of your questions about Canvas, Zoom, or technology in teaching.
Drop in to have representatives of Academic Technology, the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Harvard Library answer any of your questions about Canvas, Zoom, or technology in teaching.
Drop in to have representatives of Academic Technology, the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and Harvard Library answer any of your questions about Canvas, Zoom, or technology in teaching.
Led by: Marlon Kuzmick, Director of the Learning Lab, and Learning Lab Staff
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...
Are you planning to assign response papers, journal entries, essays, or a term paper in your Gen Ed course? Wondering how to make your prompts as clear and concise as possible? Looking for guidance on incorporating peer workshops into your syllabus, or on creating rubrics to help norm grading across your teaching staff?
Drop in to the first of a series of Writing Assignment Clinics this Friday, 21 January at 1:00 to ask questions and get advice about effective assignment design from Jonah Johnson, the Bok Center’s Assistant Director for Writing Pedagogy. Attendees interested in...
Led by: Sarah Emory, Assistant Director, International Teachers and Scholars
What role does culture play in the classroom? What are the classroom norms at Harvard and how might undergraduate education here differ from your own experiences? In this interactive workshop, we will explore teaching and learning across cultures by reflecting on culture and its impact on classroom interactions like participating in discussions, presenting information, asking questions, building rapport, giving and receiving feedback, or even handling conflict. We will...
Led by: Eleanor Finnegan, Assistant Director, Faculty Programming
What are the goals of a course, and how does it fit into a discipline? What are the different components and how do they fit together? Done well, a good syllabus can be a road map, a contract, and a guide for both instructors and students. 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 until you know what you want your students to learn. Together we’ll look at sample syllabi to...
As we all prepare for another semester of teaching unsettled by the pandemic, you may be wondering what you can do as a Teaching Fellow to promote positive mental health outcomes for your students and fellow instructors while also...