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Grotzer Clip 2

Professor Grotzer joining in on small group discussion. Graduate students in foreground and background engaged in discussion.

Topics Covered

Questioning, listening and responding; Building community; Eliciting participation; engaging preconceptions; relating to students’ experiences; connecting to other course concepts

  • Instructor: Tina Grotzer, Principal Research Scientist in Education
  • Student Group: Graduate
  • School: Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Course: Applying Cognitive Science to Teaching and Learning
  • Clip Length: 10 minutes, 22 seconds (02:48-13:10)

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Brion-Meisels Clip 9

Four graduate students and Instructor Brion-Meisels standing together in a small group in discussion. There is a section of a projected slide visible behind them that reads "Tension & Reflections."

Topics Covered

Closing class; Building community; Instructional technology; application; student-centered activities; leveraging video

  • Instructor: Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Lecturer on Education
  • Student Group: Graduate
  • School: Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Course: Partnering with Youth in Educational Research and Practice
  • Clip Length: 3 minutes, 27 seconds

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Brion-Meisels Clip 2

Four graduate students and Instructor Brion-Meisels standing together in a small group in discussion. There is a section of a projected slide visible behind them that reads "Tension & Reflections."

Topics Covered

Building community; scaffolding assignments; using rubrics; personalization; differentiation

  • Instructor: Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Lecturer on Education
  • Student Group: Graduate
  • School: Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Course: Partnering with Youth in Educational Research and Practice
  • Clip Length: 1 minute, 25 seconds

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Kegan Clip 4

Students discussing in pairs

Topics Covered

Questioning, listening and responding; Building community; Using humor; Eliciting participation; managing discussion; responding to students; showing appreciation; reporting out; wait time; just-in-time teaching

  • Instructor: Robert Kegan, William and Miriam Meehan Research Professor in Adult Learning and Professional Development
  • Student Group: Graduate
  • School: Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Course: Adult Development
  • Clip Length: 4 minutes, 54 seconds (1:00:37-1:05:31)

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Brion-Meisels Clip 1

Four graduate students and Instructor Brion-Meisels standing together in a small group in discussion. There is a section of a projected slide visible behind them that reads "Tension & Reflections."

Topics Covered

Opening class; Building community; student announcement

  • Instructor: Gretchen Brion-Meisels, Lecturer on Education
  • Student Group: Graduate
  • School: Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Course: Partnering with Youth in Educational Research and Practice
  • Clip Length: 5 minutes, 16 seconds

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Schwartzstein Clip 5

Medium close up of graduate students gathered around a fake patient. One student with a mircrophone speaking to the patient.

Topics Covered

Offering feedback ; Building community; documenting growth; specific praise

  • Instructor: Richard Schwartzstein, Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medicine and Medical Education
  • Student Group: Graduate
  • School: Harvard Medical School
  • Course: Homeostasis 1
  • Clip Length: 2 minutes, 9 seconds (1:01:08-1:03:17)

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Villarreal Clip 2

Students in class

Topics Covered

Questioning, listening and responding; Building community; guidance on final project; responding to questions; authentic projects; personalization; differentiation

  • Instructor: Christina “V” Villarreal, Lecturer on Education
  • Student Group: Graduate
  • School: Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • Course: Ethnic Studies and Education
  • Clip Length: 6 minutes, 4 seconds (03:04-9:08)

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Levy Clip 4

Professor Levy teaching in class

Topics Covered

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

  • Instructor: Dan Levy, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy
  • Student Group: Graduate
  • School: Harvard Kennedy School
  • Course: Advanced Quantitative Methods
  • Clip Length: 49 seconds

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Flehinger Clip 6

Professor Flehinger teaching in class

Topics Covered

Questioning, listening and responding; Building community; exchange with individual student; praising skills; connecting to other forms of argument in the discipline; building on student comments; modeling disciplinary thinking

  • Instructor: Brett Flehinger, Lecturer in History
  • Student Group: Undergraduate
  • School: Harvard College
  • Course: American Populisms: From Thomas Jefferson to the Tea Party + Trump
  • Clip Length: 2 minutes

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