Repeating

"Just in Time" Response Papers

Students submit response papers immediately prior to attending class with the goal of increased preparedness for discussion.

Chalk Talks

In Systems Biology 201, in an effort to prevent paper regurgitation, students were pre-assigned to present "chalk talks" of the reading at each session.

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Course Blog

In CB51: Making the Middle Ages, the teaching staff, consisting of Professor Dan Smail and TFs Rowan Dorin, Zoe Silverman, Joey McMullen, and Rena Lauer, introduced the course with a class blog, which continued to be used throughout the course for cataloguing, exploring, and learning about historical representations.

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Quick Critical Thinking

Once a month, David Weimer uses critical-thinking prompts in section that students respond to via quick write or partner discussion.

Bible Adaptations and Imitations

In his Bible in the Humanities section, David Weimer had students present a modern object that makes an allusion or reference to the Bible. This activity allows students to explore modern-day understandings of the Bible as they relate to the original text.

Section Exit Poll

In his sections, David Weimer does a weekly "exit poll" where students use the same piece of paper throughout the term to record thoughts at the end of section.

... Read more about Section Exit Poll

Science and Cooking Review Videos

Greg Kestin has been working with other staff of Harvard's wildly popular Science and Cooking class to create innovative educational videos as a supplement to lecture.

Teaching Statistics with Modules

EMR16: Real-Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery) is taught around real-life modules, and all major assignments apply statistical topics directly to the real-life topics.

module.pdf

Statistics Mini-Assignments

In EMR16 and Stat139, students periodically do very brief "mini-assignments" which require them to submit or consider something that the instructor incorporates into lecture.

Language-Learning Blog

In Swedish Ba, Ursula Lindqvist's students do their writing assignments online. They do blog postings where they respond to certain prompts and react to each other's postings.

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Tissue Engineering Articles

In this activity, students choose a recent journal article on tissue engineering and then lead a 30-minute discussion with the class on the chosen article.

Discussion Leaders

In her freshman seminar, Joanna Nizynska has her students lead discussions throughout the semester. Through this process, they learn how to respond to the flow of conversation and guide discussion effectively.

... Read more about Discussion Leaders

Generating Reading Questions

Throughout the semester, Jerusha Acterberg gradually shifts the responsibility for coming up with reading questions from herself to her Expos students.

discussion questions.pdf

Koosh Warm-up

In Ursula Lindqvist's Swedish classes, she has the students "warm-up" by doing an exercise that gets everybody talking immediately.

... Read more about Koosh Warm-up

Statistics Twitter Account

GA4 Tracking Code

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Repeating

"Just in Time" Response Papers

Students submit response papers immediately prior to attending class with the goal of increased preparedness for discussion.

Chalk Talks

In Systems Biology 201, in an effort to prevent paper regurgitation, students were pre-assigned to present "chalk talks" of the reading at each session.

Course Blog

Quick Critical Thinking

Once a month, David Weimer uses critical-thinking prompts in section that students respond to via quick write or partner discussion.

Bible Adaptations and Imitations

In his Bible in the Humanities section, David Weimer had students present a modern object that makes an allusion or reference to the Bible. This activity allows students to explore modern-day understandings of the Bible as they relate to the original text.

Section Exit Poll

In his sections, David Weimer does a weekly "exit poll" where students use the same piece of paper throughout the term to record thoughts at the end of section.

Science and Cooking Review Videos

Greg Kestin has been working with other staff of Harvard's wildly popular Science and Cooking class to create innovative educational videos as a supplement to lecture.

Teaching Statistics with Modules

EMR16: Real-Life Statistics: Your Chance for Happiness (or Misery) is taught around real-life modules, and all major assignments apply statistical topics directly to the real-life topics.

Statistics Mini-Assignments

In EMR16 and Stat139, students periodically do very brief "mini-assignments" which require them to submit or consider something that the instructor incorporates into lecture.

Language-Learning Blog

In Swedish Ba, Ursula Lindqvist's students do their writing assignments online. They do blog postings where they respond to certain prompts and react to each other's postings.

Tissue Engineering Articles

In this activity, students choose a recent journal article on tissue engineering and then lead a 30-minute discussion with the class on the chosen article.

Discussion Leaders

In her freshman seminar, Joanna Nizynska has her students lead discussions throughout the semester. Through this process, they learn how to respond to the flow of conversation and guide discussion effectively.

Generating Reading Questions

Throughout the semester, Jerusha Acterberg gradually shifts the responsibility for coming up with reading questions from herself to her Expos students.

Koosh Warm-up

In Ursula Lindqvist's Swedish classes, she has the students "warm-up" by doing an exercise that gets everybody talking immediately.

Statistics Twitter Account

Professor Joe Blitzstein uses Twitter to share articles and other tidbits with his students in Statistics 110.

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