Many TFs teach in courses that require students to complete multimedia assignments (videos, podcasts, websites, etc.), but these TFs often have few opportunities to learn how to create and grade these assignments. Thanks to a generous grant from the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching, that’s about to change. This spring the Bok Center will offer…
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
“What’s going to be on the exam?” If your students haven’t been asking you this question in these final weeks of the semester, they’ve been thinking it. Repeatedly. Even the most enthusiastic advocates for alternative assessment methods often teach courses where some form of a traditional final examination is required. Being a dedicated educator (you…
“A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.” – A. Bartlett Giamatti
Today’s author is Dave Watson, the DTF for the Statistics Department. On October 25th, the famous statistician Hans Rosling delivered the Second David Pickard Memorial Lecture. The David Pickard Memorial Endowment Fund and Lecture celebrates the memory of David Pickard, an outstanding teacher and mentor in the Harvard Statistics Department from 1977 to 1985, who…
“The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.” – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
It’s an important question. After all, higher education students are spending increasing amounts of money, often building ever-higher mountains of debt in order to obtain a college degree, a qualification that is becoming more and more necessary to find a job, decent or otherwise. I recently walked past a clothing store that had a sign…
“None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody – a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns – bent down and helped us pick up our boots.” – Thurgood Marshall
Today’s author is Sarah Rous, DTF for the Classics Department. Her eloquent review shows how communicative language teaching is influencing ancient language pedagogy. Talking About Dead Tongues: A Review of When Dead Tongues Speak: Teaching Beginning Greek and Latin, edited by John Gruber-Miller (2006). American Philological Association Classical Resources Series 6. Oxford: Oxford UP. For…
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