Additional teaching practices and strategies

Emotions are an inevitable part of classroom communities and the learning process. A lack of emotional intelligence by instructors can derail a classroom, while teachers who are skilled at identifying emotions and responding to them can help students...

The Instructional Moves (IM) website showcases high-leverage teaching practices tailored to the higher education context. This module breaks down a variety of considerations and practices to create a supportive learning environment for all students.

This guide, created by the Equity and Opportunity Electives Faculty Community of Practice, explores the why and the how of creating a caring classroom environment. It combines general advice with practices from specific HGSE faculty.

This tip sheet has been created to help HGSE instructors and teaching fellows best meet the needs of our growing international student body.

This resource was created to help instructors have a structure to design or redesign courses using the principles of backwards design.

This resource frames a 5-step sequence for designing or refining a course.

This popular 2-page tip sheet highlights 19 thoughtful discussion protocols that are often used in courses at HGSE.

This guide, originally created to support HGSE faculty-student dinner group discussions, features strategies for Building a Strong Foundations, Structuring & Deepening Engagement, and Navigating Challenging Situations.

When teaching about complex and contentious topics, some moments of harm to one or more members of the classroom community are inevitable. This guide, pulled from collective wisdom of HGSE faculty members, illuminates how to minimize harm on the front end...

Faculty members from HGSE’s Special Topics in Educational Equity and Opportunity (STEEO) came together to reflect on what we have learned individually and collectively about fostering belonging and upholding equitable pedagogies in contentious times. This...

This tip sheet gives advice on how to prepare for three different kinds of challenging conversations: those planned for as part of the curriculum, those related to addressing a traumatizing external event, and those related to conflict arising in the...

This guide offers strategies and resources for instructors to prepare students to engage in peer exchanges (whether online or in-person, synchronous or asynchronous) effectively and respectfully.

This 4-page resource provides guidance on how to facilitate difficult conversations, ranging from the big-picture view of how to prepare before the discussion begins to the details of how a particular intervention might look and sound.

This 11-page toolkit unpacks how to leverage norms for challenging conversations; it includes a discussion of why norms are valuable, categories of norms you might want to consider, processes for setting norms, and how to respond to norm violations.

This two-page annotated and curated guide offers actionable ideas for teaching in traumatic times and discussing difficult topics in ways that support well-being, learning, and growth.

This slide deck helps instructors think through the best ways to have students share findings from a final project (often done in-person as a presentation or a poster session) in the online space.

This resource offers a toolkit for engaging students in small group learning, with links to key resources at HGSE, Harvard and beyond.

This 2-page document provides the steps for systematically launching student teams (goals, resources, structure, norms) and is based on research about what sets a solid foundation for teams, increasing their likelihood of constructive collaboration and...

This infographic outlines three approaches to gathering student feedback, with descriptions of how each works and its comparative benefits.

Teaching Fellows are vital contributors to the HGSE teaching and learning community. This guide offers suggestions to faculty for engaging productively with TFs as pedagogical partners and colleagues.

This site features a range of resources and information for HGSE Teaching Fellows, including getting started in the TF role, instructional strategies and supports, and FAQs.

This comprehensive website spotlights reflective Harvard professors employing instructional moves (high-leverage teaching strategies) applicable to multiple settings and grounded in teaching and learning research.

Combining the spirit of IM and Master Class, Instructional Moves Live highlights and explores research-based best teaching practices through a teaching demo and debrief.

Explore the videos of HGSE's Master Class series -- each session showcases and then debriefs excellent teaching from Harvard instructors