Instructional Resources
Instructional Resources
Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI
HGSE Faculty Guide: Teaching and Learning in the Age of Generative AI
Includes AI basics, sample syllabus statements, ideas for assignments and more
HGSE Policy on Student Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Academic Work
Student-facing document establishing general guidelines to encourage students to use generative AI when it can help them learn and not when it is a hindrance. Given the wide range of learning goals across HGSE courses, individual instructors may create course-specific policies that differ from and supersede these guidelines. All HGSE faculty are strongly urged to include information on their syllabi outlining generative AI-related expectations for students in their courses.
HGSE-Focused Examples of teaching with Generative AI
Features examples from HGSE faculty, or related to HGSE subject areas, on how Generative AI intersects with our teaching
Teaching for Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism
Tools for Developing Inclusive Syllabi
This 9-page tool helps you examine the inclusivity of your syllabus along multiple dimensions and provides guidance for making it more inclusive.
Anti-Oppressive, BIPOC, Scholars List
The HGSE Solidarity Collective for Black Lives curated this list of Black, anti-oppressive and critical scholarship to center and elevate the research, pedagogies, contributions, and brilliance of Black, anti-racist/anti-oppressive, critical and intersectional scholars, as demanded by HGSE students. This list can be used hand-in-hand with the inclusive syllabus tool above.
Facilitating Hot Moments in Classroom Discussion
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.
Leveraging Norms for Challenging Conversations
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, how to respond to norm violations, and further resources.
Fulfilling the Promise of Diversity - Facilitator’s Toolkit
This 48-page toolkit -- originally created to support instruction in various HGSE courses focused on diversity, equity, and anti-racism -- includes a host of protocols for creating inclusive and anti-racist class rooms, ideas for building community, tips for leading difficult conversations, and some case studies of classrooms who have employed these practices.
Teaching in Times of Strife and Trauma (Updated 10/17/23)
This 2-page annotated and curated guide offers actionable ideas for teaching in traumatic times; discussing difficult topics; and anti-racist, equitable teaching.
Fostering Equity and inclusion in Peer Learning Spaces
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 equitably, and to empower student groups to self-facilitate in ways that build community and support everyone’s learning.
A Reading Guide to Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Justice in the Classroom
This annotated reading guide from the Derek Bok Center, organized by theme and frequently asked questions, is meant to offer concrete strategies, best practices, and helpful theories to get you started thinking about EDIBJ issues related to your teaching as well as enhance your pedagogical repertoire.
Select Instructional Moves (links) Focused on Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging:
- Norm-setting at the beginning of semester
- Encouraging a willingness to get it wrong
- Using pre-work to honor diverse voices and structure the discussion
- Using the physical space to support a democratic philosophy
- Nurturing voices that challenge the dominant narrative
- Providing multiple ways for students to engage in class discussion
- Designing, scaffolding, and assessing student discussion leadership
- Calling on students in equitable ways
- Tracking student participation to ensure all students contribute
- Using small groups to intensify focus and provide safer spaces
- In-class polling to check for understanding and stimulate peer discussion
Course Design
Course Design Overview
This resource frames a 5-step sequence for designing or refining a course.
Course Refresh Resource
This brief guide introduces strategies to refresh courses from one semester to the next, regardless of modality.
Discussion-Leading
Discussion Protocols
This popular 2-page tip sheet highlights 19 thoughtful discussion protocols that are often used in courses at HGSE.
Facilitation Resources for 3D (Dinners, Dilemmas & Debates) Faculty Hosts
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.
Learning in Teams
Team Launch document
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 successful outcomes.
Making Final Projects / Presentations Work Online
This slide deck, created for a faculty teaching lunch, 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, depending on the goals and the context.
Strategies and Best Practices for Small Groups / Group Learning
This resource offers a toolkit for engaging students in small group learning, with links to key resources at HGSE, Harvard and beyond.
Learning from Student Feedback
Case Studies in Formative Feedback at HGSE
This TLL blog post focuses on three valuable methods of soliciting student feedback: pre-class reading response briefs, end-of-class plus / delta feedback, and mid-course feedback.
Options for Mid-Course Student Feedback
This infographic outlines three approaches to gathering student feedback, with descriptions of how each works and its comparative benefits.
Teaching Fellow-Related Resources
HGSE TF Resource Site
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.
Partnering with Teaching Fellows: A Pedagogical Guide for HGSE Faculty
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.
Effective Teaching at Harvard (Video-Based Resources)
Instructional Moves
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. Moves are anchored in videos showcasing classrooms across the university and combining class footage with reflections from instructors and students.
Master Class at HGSE
Explore the videos of HGSE's Master Class series -- each session showcases and then debriefs excellent teaching from Harvard instructorsInstructional Moves (IM) Live
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
Teaching Resources and Guides from Other University Teaching Centers
General
Residential Teaching Guide for New HGSE Faculty
Designed for faculty new to HGSE who are teaching in-person courses, this guide provides an overview of teaching topics and resources directly relevant and useful for getting started with teaching here, and is arranged in a chronological sequence (with sections on before, while and after teaching).
Step-by-Step Guide to Giving Feedback on Student Work Using Audio or Video in Canvas
This guide outlines a simple process for providing audio or video feedback for your students, which may make your life easier, bring them additional benefit, or both.