Teaching and Learning Week at HGSE

Teaching and learning are at the heart of the field of education — from early childhood, to K–12, to higher education, to informal and workplace learning. Teaching and Learning Week allows all of us to explore and reflect on our own experiences as learners and facilitators of others’ learning. This year's activities include:

• a session exploring the capacities needed to make rapid, flexible instructional decisions (work that is funded by the Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching)
• an interactive session on encouraging classroom dialogue
• a music night for families focused on building children's awareness and empathy for cultures around the world
• a gallery walk with members of HGSE's Teaching and Learning Lab to explore design principles behind the development of the How People Learn course.
• a hands-on session on leveraging the science of learning and featuring HGSE’s Instructional Moves project that showcases high-leverage teaching strategies
• an open class with T550 Designing for Learning by Creating
• an event co-offered between Gutman Library and Harvard Teacher Fellows on Learning with Digital Media from the Library of Congress
• a live, interactive cooking demo hosted by the Office of Student Affairs and the Gutman Commons Café (with take-home treats cooked during the learning experience)

As part of Teaching and Learning Week, several faculty members contributed essays about how we teach and learn: