There was no Pedagogy Fellow in Philosophy for academic year 2022-23.
Philosophy
2021–2022
Caitlin Fitchett
Over the course of this year, I have developed a proposal to broaden the scope of the Philosophy department pedagogy workshop. Research and teaching are often regarded as pulling academics in different directions; time spent teaching is time not spent on research. Balancing these competing commitments is an important part of flourishing within academia and many of the strategies and skills that are useful for teaching are also applicable to research and vice versa. My aim has been to motivate institutional uptake of a broader pedagogy workshop, which would help G3 students to develop as both teachers and researchers.
2020–2021
Caitlin Fitchett
The pedagogy seminar in the Philosophy Department is an established program, which is compulsory for graduate students who will be teaching at Harvard for the first time. Typically, the participants are G3 students. Some G3s have taught before while others are new to teaching. One of my aims has been to align the way we teach pedagogy with how we teach philosophy. This approach has two core benefits: it speaks to the interests and learning style of the seminar participants, and it provides a way of engaging more experienced teachers as well as those new to teaching.
2019–2020
Javier Caride
The function of this capstone project is two-fold. First, it provides a teaching-fellow-centered website aimed at helping TFs manage discussion sections, especially in courses dealing with ethics. The website provides a backwards-design approach to discussion sections, guiding TFs through the process of identifying learning goals for their discussion sections and finding appropriate strategies for those goals. It also allows TFs to organize strategies by common classroom circumstances and needs. By providing resources specifically for TFs, this project seeks to encourage philosophy TFs to use existing resources to help build a repository of pedagogical resources.