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Repository of TF Section Plans
Awardee plans to develop and pilot an open database of section plans for Teaching Fellows in the government department. -
Integrating consequential simulations in coursework
Innovative Teaching using a Trading Simulation -
Calculus practitioner series: Meeting the changing needs of our students and client disciplines
Awardees plan to design and record a multimedia series on the interdisciplinary nature of calculus with speakers from Harvard faculty from the STEM and quantitative social science fields. -
Graduate multimedia fellows program
Awardees plan to organize a graduate multimedia fellows program that trains teaching fellows to evaluate and advise students’ on multimedia projects. -
Geospatial education at Harvard: A new course in mapping and spatial perspectives
Awardees developed a new course on spatial reasoning, cartography, and geographic analysis. -
Framework courses in arts and humanities
Awardees plan three Graduate Seminars in General Education that will ultimately lead to proposals for foundational Gen Ed courses in the arts and humanities. -
Test-enhanced learning: Applying principles of cognitive psychology to education
Applying principles of cognitive psychology to education. Awardees plan to study how formative assessment can be better used in lecture courses to promote learning. -
Language through the visual arts: An interdisciplinary partnership
Awardees plan to develop innovative methodology and curricula to promote the use of visual art in language classes. -
Sound studies
Awardee plans to create a computer lab for sound analysis that could support a number of existing courses across several departments. -
Development of a multimedia textbook
Awardees plan to develop a digital textbook for an existing course. -
Exploring community differences using spatial data
Awardees plan to create a new course that teaches students in sociology to visualize and analyze spatial data. -
Harvard students and incarcerated students: Learning together in a prison classroom
Awardees plan to develop a joint experiential-learning course for incarcerated students and Harvard students. -
Harvard Writes: A digital teaching and learning platform for better undergraduate academic writing
Awardee plans to develop a digital learning and teaching platform (“Harvard Writes”) for students and instructors to improve undergraduate academic writing by addressing the problem of knowledge transfer. -
Einstein reversed
Awardee redesigned his Gen Ed course on the Einsteinian revolution, using video-recorded content to “flip the classroom." -
Portraits in multimedia: A social engagement project in African and African American Studies
Awardees plan to create a digital archive of “social portraits” (short video interviews with African leaders and residents) for widespread use in humanities courses. -
Teaching with things: Curation, hybrid multimedia, and object-oriented pedagogy
Awardees plan to expand an existing curatorial program at metaLAB and the museums to support object-based teaching in the humanities. -
Coordinating and advancing statistical teaching and learning (CASTLE)
Awardees plan to organize a two-day workshop that brings together faculty and students from across the University to discuss pedagogical strategies for teaching statistics. -
A Model for teaching and curriculum development informed by the theatrical process
Awardees plan to host a series of professional workshops and roundtables that connect the dramatic arts with teaching. -
Case-based learning and teaching: A practice-based, peer-driven approach to sophomore tutorial
Awardee plans to assess her departments’ new sophomore tutorial program, investigate its generalizability to other departments, and create a “Hauser sophomore scholar” program. -
SciBox 1.0: An innovative, experimental learning space inspiring creative approaches to teaching
Awardees plan to redesign a 2,500 sq ft space in the Science Center into an experimental "black-box" classroom that could be used for existing classes beginning in Spring 2013.