Last week we began to develop a taxonomy of lecture types, the idea being to outline a basic toolbox of tactics to use in class planning. Today we add a few more tools to the kit. (Like the first, credit for much of this post’s inspiration and execution goes to Peter J. Frederick, “The Lively…
Variety, as we all know, is the spice of life. It’s also the spice of education – as many studies have shown, few tactics awaken student attention as much as shaking things up, at least proverbially, in your classroom. To help plan your lessons in the new semester, we are gathering a (by no means…
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…
“When you’re a professor, it’s possible to go long stretches of time without knowing what’s going on in the heads of learners. When you’re lecturing all the time and never hearing from students, you have no sense of how transfer or misconception deficits are accumulating.” – Grant Wiggins, Understanding Understanding*, 3/26/2012 * HUID login required…
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