Levy Clip 1

Instructional Themes: Opening class; Using humor; Instructional technology; Making thinking visible; differentiation; learning objectives; attending to affective elements; polling; soliciting pre-conceptions; making pedagogical choices visible

Profiled: Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, teaches "Advanced Quantitative Methods" to 74 students at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Clip Length: 3 minutes 46 seconds (0:08-3:54)

Clip Context:

• “Advanced Quantitative Methods,” a graduate-level course at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government with 74 students enrolled.
• This course aims to equip students with the necessary statistical tools to improve public policy at the global level. In this class, Levy’s students explore the context of multiple regression through an interactive lecture combined with pair and small-group work.
• This clip comes at the very beginning of the hour-long class period as Levy sets the stage for the day and uses a poll to surface students’ preconceptions.