Denise Yoon
My work this year focused on strengthening the first year graduate seminar course, OEB399, and creating a curriculum that prepares grad students for their life and teaching at Harvard and in OEB. By centering community within the G1 cohort and providing structure and real experience with pedagogical techniques, I hoped to provide a space in which first year students can grow and thrive with their colleagues and begin to find their place in their labs and within OEB. By creating learning modules that will stay with the department after my tenure as the Pedagogy Fellow, I hope that future OEB399 classes will be high quality and standardized from year to year.
In addition to the work that I did in restructuring the overall course content, I also emphasized principles of inclusive teaching, creating a unit on inclusive pedagogy, which involved workshops, a panel from the History of Science department, and case studies on LGBTQ+ inclusive language in collaboration with Roya Huang, a former PF in MCB.
View Denise's capstone project.