Great teaching can be learned
The goal of the Instructional Moves (IM) project is to help you 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
Professional Learning Opportunities
The IM team also offers assistance in designing professional learning experiences for groups at Harvard seeking to employ these resources.
Online Workshop
Instructional Moves: Making Classroom Discussions More Inclusive and Effective, a new two-week online workshop from Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, builds on the resources offered in Instructional Moves. Featuring Harvard faculty, the program offers new higher education educators a roadmap for strengthening classroom discussions, new insights that can help them match teaching strategies to specific discussion scenarios, and opportunities to learn from Instructional Moves experts and fellow participants.