Cockrill Clip 5

Instructional Themes: Using humor; Questioning, listening and responding; Sharing expertise; Case teaching; providing personal experience from the field; creating flexibility for discussion; productive sidetracks; channeling expertise in the classroom; shared note taking; knowing your students

Profiled: Barbara Cockrill, Harold Amos Academy Associate Professor of Medicine, teaches "Homeostasis I" to 40 students at Harvard Medical School.

Clip Length: 3 minutes, 38 seconds (30:41-34:19)

Clip Context:

• “Homeostasis I,” a first-year required course at Harvard Medical School with 40 students enrolled.
• This course pushes student groups to apply their textbook learning to realistic cases and reach new understandings together through relevant case-based collaborative learning (CBCL) sessions. The course is taught by a team of doctors, led by Cockrill.
• This clip comes near the middle of the hour-long video as Cockrill turns students’ laughter about the case into a teachable moment, drawing on personal experience.