Grotzer Clip 2

Instructional Themes: Questioning, listening and responding; Building community; Eliciting participation; engaging preconceptions; relating to students’ experiences; connecting to other course concepts

Profiled: Tina Grotzer, Principal Research Scientist in Education, teaches "Applying Cognitive Science to Teaching and Learning" to 35 students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Clip Length: 10 minutes, 22 seconds (02:48-13:10)

Clip Context:

• “Applying Cognitive Science to Teaching and Learning,” a graduate course at the Harvard Graduate School of Education with 35 students enrolled.
• This course helps students understand and apply principles from research on learning and cognitive science that interact with designing instruction. Through a combination of lecture and several discussion configurations, students consider how their own teaching and learning experiences complement and/or complicate the material they study.
• This clip comes about three minutes into the 3-hour class as Grotzer engages students in the day’s topic by asking them to reflect on their own schooling.