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Take Your Teaching to the Next Level

Take Your Teaching to the Next Level

March 13, 2024

As scholars, we are always developing our research, but how do we think about learning and growing as teachers? This spring, an interdisciplinary group of ten PhD students explored frameworks for teaching development to consider this question and become more reflective and effective teachers in our Bok Seminar, Taking Your Teaching to the Next Level: Practice, Feedback, and Reflection.

Students in the seminar considered their own goals and questions they...

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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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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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