This is a guest post submitted by Emily Russell. As a physics graduate student, it’s not often I walk into a lecture hall to be handed a clicker, but Edward “Joe” Redish practices what he teaches. Redish is a physics professor at the University of Maryland, and for over 20 years has been one…
This post is part of the “Fair Harvard?” series by Aubry Threlkeld. A discussion about the Cultural Dimensions of Teaching and Learning at Harvard So I have been raging about two things recently. Sexist language used by students toward professors and teaching fellows, and the general objectification of women in higher education. These concerns are…
Here at Harvard, the Bureau of Study Counsel is a resource center for students’ academic and personal development. Bureau services include: academic/personal counseling, workshops and discussion groups, Harvard Course in Reading and Study Strategies, peer tutoring, English as a Second Language peer consultation, referral to other services and resources, either within or outside the Harvard…
We are just winding down from an excellent Fall Teaching Conference, held last Wednesday and Thursday at Sever Hall. Among the many helpful sessions offered to new and experienced graduate student Teaching Fellows was a session titled “Planning Your Section in the Sciences.” Presented by Kelly Miller and Emily Jacobs-Palmer, the session offered practical advice…
Rebekah Maggor speaks about speaking with authority by incorporating presentation skills. — Rebekah is the former director of the program for speaking in learning at the Bok Center.
Once upon a time there was a man who saw something that made him uncomfortable. To his mind, children are full of potential for good. Indeed, he thought, nurturing this promise is what can most effectively support the chance that in due time they will actually become good. The man decided that the task of…
Courage to know! Dare to think! The motto is as ubiquitous as it is famous. Indeed, who today is not expected to dare to think? Certainly, this is a common expectation of students. Teachers regularly insist: “Have courage to make use of your own understanding!” (8:35). “Aude Sapere!” Immanuel Kant exhorted his readers in the…
What is great teaching? As learners, we know it when we see it. Sometimes it confronts us immediately and sometimes it takes years to become apparent, but eventually the gift of great teaching makes itself known. I know it in the flashes of ‘ah hah!’ or the echoes of insistent questions still prompting me years…
