Levy Clip 4

Instructional Themes: Using humor; Building community; regulating energy; reading the room; when to break; attending to affective elements

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

Clip Length: 49 seconds (43:25-44:14)

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 43 minutes into the hour-long class period. Levy has just introduced the second topic for the day’s class. Noting the flagging energy in the room, he calls for a stretch break.