Programming

Whether you're interested in attending a one-hour lunch, enrolling in a six-week seminar, or finding a trusted partner with whom to workshop your ideas, the Bok Center's staff and fellows are ready to help you become the kind of teacher that you would like to be.

For Faculty

The Bok Center partners with faculty to think through their goals and ideas. From course design, to training your teaching staff, to evolving your classroom practice, we're here to help.

Programming Grad

Teaching is intimately connected to your growth as a scholar. From apprenticing for a faculty career to acquiring valuable skills in communication, the Bok Center is here to help you succeed.

Programming Undergrad

Through the Learning Lab and other initiatives, the Bok Center offers undergraduates the opportunity to participate in designing their own educations and transforming the Harvard curriculum. 

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Upcoming Events

2024 May 01

Online Office Hours for FAS Faculty, Students, and Staff

Repeats every week every Wednesday until Wed May 08 2024 .
11:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Online, see the zoom link in the description

Drop in to have the Bok Center for Teaching and Learning and Academic Technology for FAS answer any of your questions about Canvas, Zoom, or technology in teaching.

Join via Zoom

 

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2024 May 02

Thursday Thesis Think Tank

11:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Derek Bok Center, 125 Mt. Auburn Street, 3rd floor

Join us for the inaugural meeting of our "Thursday Thesis Think Tank!" This informal coffee hour, designed especially for DUS/ADUS/others involved in overseeing senior theses, is meant to help build community and transparency among the concentrations, while tackling common challenges connected to these capstone projects. Coffee will be provided.

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2024 Jun 11

Bok Seminar - Preparing to Teach: A Seminar for New TFs

1:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

125 Mt. Auburn St. 3rd Floor

Registration opens May 1.

Led by Pamela Pollock and Rebecca Miller Brown

How do you prepare to be a Teaching Fellow? How do you plan a section? How do you know if students are learning? In this seminar, you will learn what you need to know to start teaching, explore resources available to you as you begin your teaching career, and build confidence in the process!... Read more about Bok Seminar - Preparing to Teach: A Seminar for New TFs

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2024 Aug 20

Hit the Ground Running: Fundamentals for New TFs (Cohort 1)

10:00am to 11:30am

Location: 

Online

Registration opens August 5.

New TFs are invited to join a cohort of our Fundamentals training to prepare for their first TF experience, learn about our resources and approach to teaching, and connect with TFs from across Harvard Griffin GSAS.... Read more about Hit the Ground Running: Fundamentals for New TFs (Cohort 1)

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More Events

The Bok Center welcomes opportunities to collaborate with departments and programs on initiatives like revising curricula, offering professional development opportunities to graduate students, and creating discipline-specific resources in areas like writing and speaking for undergraduates.

Equity & Inclusion

The Bok Center aims to foster teaching and learning communities in which all students can learn and thrive in ways inclusive of their diverse backgrounds and identities.

Public events

Engaged Communication for PhD Students

Engaged Communication for PhD Students

April 1, 2022

Teaching is an act of scholarly communication, and developing communication skills is an important component of professional development. We offer programs in teaching and scholarly communication for PhD students at every stage, from newly matriculated students who want to develop strategies to more easily explain their work, to dissertation-stage students preparing to share short versions of their research on the Sanders Theatre stage. This year we focused on communicating in person (both with masks and without) after more than a year of being confined to a small square on...

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Bok Summit

Bok Summit Covered in Harvard Magazine, Chronicle of Higher Education

May 3, 2019

Harvard Magazine recently published a comprehensive summary of the Bok Center’s Harvard Summit on Excellence in Higher Education. Held on April 4-5, the Summit brought together deans, provosts, and faculty from universities across the country to discuss whether - and how well - liberal arts colleges and universities are serving the public good....

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