Levy Clip 2

Instructional Themes: Eliciting participation; Questioning, listening and responding; Instructional technology; Peer learning; Making thinking visible; conceptual understanding; reinforcing norms; movement in the classroom; polling; engaging more voices

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

Clip Length: 8 minutes, 35 seconds (12:50-21:25)

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. ​​​​​​​