Graduate Students

Building Your Foundation for Graduate School with the International Summer Institute

Building Your Foundation for Graduate School with the International Summer Institute

April 24, 2024

How will I fit in at Harvard? How can I feel more comfortable using English? Will I make friends?

If you’re an incoming international PhD student, these and other questions may be on your mind as you prepare to start this exciting chapter of your career. Harvard Griffin GSAS Welcomes: International Summer Institute (ISI) is designed to help students answer these questions and to start their time at Harvard with a strong foundation. The...

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2024 Apr 08

Workshop Your Teaching Statement

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Online

Are you working on your teaching statement for the Bok Teaching Certificate or academic job market? Bring your draft and get feedback on it in this interactive workshop! Don’t have a teaching statement yet? Use this workshop as a deadline to get a draft ready for feedback.

For the workshop, you should have a draft of your teaching statement to share, whether it’s a rough draft or more polished. You will share your draft for feedback and provide feedback to your peers. These kinds of...

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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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2024 Mar 12

Workshop Your Teaching Statement

10:00am to 11:00am

Location: 

Online

Are you working on your teaching statement for the Bok Teaching Certificate or academic job market? Bring your draft and get feedback on it in this interactive workshop! Don’t have a teaching statement yet? Use this workshop as a deadline to get a draft ready for feedback.

For the workshop, you should have a draft of your teaching statement to share, whether it’s a rough draft or more polished. You will share your draft for feedback and provide feedback to your peers. These kinds of...

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2024 Feb 15

Office Hours for PhD Students at the SEC

Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu Apr 25 2024 except Thu Mar 14 2024, Thu Mar 21 2024.
9:30am to 11:00am

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9:30am to 11:00am
9:30am to 11:00am

Location: 

SEC 2.323 - Library Seminar Room

Are you a SEAS PhD student who wants to learn more about teaching, communication, or presentation skills?

Are you an international PhD student who would like to talk to someone about cross-cultural communication or your English speaking skills?

Sarah Emory, the Bok Center’s Assistant Director for International Teachers and Scholars, is available for drop-in consultations and questions every Thursday from 9:30-11:00am in SEC 2.323-Library Seminar Room.

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2024 Feb 01

Applications Open for Bok Center Fellows Programs

(All day)

GSAS PhD students with a passion for teaching and learning are invited to apply to the Bok Center’s Fellows programs (applications will open on February 1):

  • Pedagogy Fellows enhance training and support for teaching fellows within their departments and across the FAS. They lead pedagogy seminars and workshops, consult with TFs, and develop resources on teaching and professional development for their peers. Applications are open for Pedagogy Fellows based in departments...

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2024 Feb 23

Cancelled - Workshop Your Syllabus

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location: 

Online

Are you working on a syllabus for the Bok Teaching Certificate or academic job market? Bring your draft and get feedback on it in this interactive workshop! Don’t have a syllabus yet? Use this workshop as a deadline to get a draft ready for feedback.

For the workshop, you should have a draft of a syllabus to share, whether it’s a rough draft or more polished. You will share your draft for feedback and provide feedback to your peers. These kinds of documents are always a work in progress, and seeing how they sound...

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2024 Feb 21

Workshop Your Teaching Statement

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Online

Are you working on your teaching statement for the Bok Teaching Certificate or academic job market? Bring your draft and get feedback on it in this interactive workshop! Don’t have a teaching statement yet? Use this workshop as a deadline to get a draft ready for feedback.

For the workshop, you should have a draft of your teaching statement to share, whether it’s a rough draft or more polished. You will share your draft for feedback and provide feedback to your peers. These kinds of documents are always...

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