Instructional Moves

Great teaching can be learned

Instructional Moves

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.

  • Step into colleagues’ classrooms to observe exemplary teaching practices.
  • Hear professors and students explain what makes these practices powerful.
  • Access research and resources to implement instructional moves in your own classroom.
Using IM
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Our Modules

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Building Community

Cultivate safe, close-knit environments where students feel comfortable and compelled to take risks and collaborate

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Lecturing Interactively

Challenge conventional, age-old instruction with techniques designed to boost engagement and vary teacher monologue

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Facilitating Discussions

Foster equitable classroom discourse, broaden participation, and afford students greater control of their learning

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Teaching through Problems

Create classrooms where complex, realistic problems push students to collectively apply what they have learned

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Educating for Equity and Inclusion

Create classrooms where complex, realistic problems push students to collectively apply what they have learned

Move Spotlight

Read Our 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 -- reviewed here in Teachers College Record -- contains a toolkit of strategies to cultivate safe, inclusive learning spaces that encourage all students to do ambitious work.

Learn More + Purchase
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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.

Explore Raw Clips
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