Hosted by the Research-Informed Teaching & Learning TLC Affinity Group
Date: Friday, November 22, 2024
Time: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Location: Lamont Library, Forum Room (Remember to please bring your Harvard ID!)
Register for this event here (Remember to please bring your Harvard ID!)
How can educators create an environment where students feel safe taking intellectual risks?
Join us as Dr. Shelby Clark shares her methods and findings from two recent studies on intellectual risk-taking in the classroom. You will learn practical tools to foster a culture of questioning, risk-taking, and mistake-making in academic environments, including:
- Key elements and specific teaching strategies that support students’ willingness to take intellectual risks in safe and supportive classroom environments, drawn from a study on how the Harkness Method was used as a pedagogical approach to create a culture of intellectual risk-taking at a private high school.
- How assessment practices can either promote or inhibit intellectual risk-taking amongst students.
Shelby Clark is a Principal Investigator at Project Zero and a Project Director on the Good Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.