Agency by Design (Project Zero)

The Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero shares projects and resources in making and design environments, including Agency by Design. 

Arts @ 29 Garden

Explore curricular art-making 

Fabrication Lab

Graduate School of Design's makerspace

Prototyping Lab (i-Lab)

Harvard i-Lab renovates 'maker space' and prototyping lab

What are ePortfolios for students? (Canvas)

Students can showcase their interest-driven projects on Canvas sites with the ePortfolio tool.

Language through the visual arts: An interdisciplinary partnership

The Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) supported a project exploring foreign language study in partnership with the visual and dramatic arts.

Research: The use of scoring rubrics for formative assessment purposes revisited: A review

A meta-analysis of 21 studies concluded that using assessment rubrics for formative learning can be effective for improving performance and self-regulation by increasing transparency, reducing anxiety, and encouraging reflection. 

Research: Student-Written Exams Increase Student Involvement

An experiment found that students wring their own multiple-choice or short-essay exam questions increased their engagement with the content, decreased stress, and nearly eliminated cheating.

Responding to Student Writing

The Harvard Writing Project provides strategies for responding to and commenting on student writing. 

Commenting Efficiently

The Harvard Writing Project provides strategies for responding to and commenting on student writing. 

Classroom Assessment, Reflection, & Feedback (ablConnect)

ablConnect synthesizes research on classroom assessment, reflection, and feedback. 

What is SpeedGrader? (Canvas)

The Canvas SpeedGrader tool enables instructors to view, grade, and provide feedback on student submissions in one place.

How do I create a peer review assignment? (Canvas)

In Canvas course sites, instructors can require students to complete a peer review of another student's work. 

Peer Instruction (ablConnect)

The ablConnect database highlights Harvard examples of active learning strategies including debate, pair and share, and peer instruction. 

Pair and Share (ablConnect)

The ablConnect database highlights Harvard examples of active learning strategies including debate, pair and share, and peer instruction. 

Debate (ablConnect)

The ablConnect database highlights Harvard examples of active learning strategies including debate, pair and share, and peer instruction. 

Different Worlds in the Same Classroom: Students' Evolution in Their Vision of Knowledge and Their Expectations of Teachers

William G. Perry Jr., the first director of the Harvard University Bureau of Study Counsel, wrote about how student differences impact the ways in which they make sense in the classroom. 

Leadership Can Be Taught

 

Leadership Can Be Taught offers an inside look into Heifetz’s classroom and his experiential pedagogical methods. He is also currently working with HarvardX to develop an online leadership course.

 

Leveraging the Power of Teaching Assistants

Members of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Strengthening Learning and Teaching Excellence (SLATE) Initiative share best practices in teaching team management based on their work on a...

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Teaching by the case method

Harvard Business School’s Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning provides approaches and resources for teaching with the case method.

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