Mazur Clip 3

Instructional Themes: Questioning, listening and responding; Eliciting participation; Making thinking visible; valuing and responding to student questions; classroom climate; using the board/overhead

Profiled: Eric Mazur, Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics, teaches "Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering" to 60 students at Harvard College.

Clip Length: 2 minutes, 51 seconds (40:00-42:51)

Clip Context:

• “AP50: Physics as a Foundation for Science and Engineering,” an undergraduate course at Harvard College with 60 students enrolled.
• This course is a yearlong, team- and project-based introduction to physics. In the course, Mazur assigns students to small groups and challenges them to solve real-life problems using physics concepts.
• This clip comes 40 minutes into the 97-minute class session as Mazur takes two student questions while going over the response to the problem he posed to the class.