Great teaching can be learned
The goal of the Instructional Moves (IM) project is to help instructors incorporate and refine high-leverage teaching practices tailored to the higher education context.
Our Modules
Building Community
Cultivate safe, close-knit environments where students feel comfortable and compelled to take risks and collaborate
Lecturing Interactively
Challenge conventional, age-old instruction with techniques designed to boost engagement and vary teacher monologue
Facilitating Discussions
Foster equitable classroom discourse, broaden participation, and afford students greater control of their learning
Teaching through Problems
Create classrooms where complex, realistic problems push students to collectively apply what they have learned
Educating for Equity and Inclusion
Create classrooms where complex, realistic problems push students to collectively apply what they have learned
Move Spotlight
Read Our New IM Book
In May, 2023, Harvard Education Press published Instructional Moves for Powerful Teaching in Higher Education. Supplementing IM website content with additional interviews and insights, this book contains a toolkit of strategies to cultivate safe, inclusive learning spaces that encourage all students to do ambitious work.
Raw Clips Library
Explore our library of unedited classroom footage, which you can search and sort in multiple ways to find content that will enable you to lead rich discussions.