Levy Clip 3

Instructional Themes: Questioning, listening and responding; Using humor; Instructional technology; Building rapport; using handouts; moving in the room; taking notes; learning objectives; knowing your students; asking follow-up questions; wait time; teaching diverse students; eliciting preconceptions

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

Clip Length: 9 minutes, 56 seconds (30:11-40:05)

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 halfway through the hour-long class period. Levy delivers an interactive lecture using the lecture handout he provides for each class and the iPad he uses for making notes on the board.