This course presents an introduction to teaching history, both at Harvard and beyond. It is compulsory for first-time graduate teaching fellows in the Harvard History Department. Through practice, observation, reading, and discussion, students learn a range of techniques and styles of teaching.
In a new initiative launched this year, the Harvard History Department awarded me the opportunity to design and teach a reading seminar to Harvard undergraduates on a topic based on my research.
As a tutor for this course, I taught two weekly two-hour sections on historical writing. I graded student papers and led peer-review discussions of student work. For my work, I received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
As teaching fellow for this conference course in the History Department, I helped to design the syllabus and graded students' work, including creative and collaborative assignments. I received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for my work in this course. This course formed the starting point for a website on the history of the United Nations, due to be launched in February 2012. The website project is sponsored by the United Nations Foundation in co-operation with the Center for History and Economics at Harvard.
As head teaching fellow, I administered the course and taught one section. This General Education course was taught for the first time in Fall 2010 so I also helped with the source pack and course website.
I co-taught and co-designed this weekly undergraduate seminar with Simone Mueller-Pohl at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universitaet, Berlin.
In this new course for General Education, I taught one section on transnational German history. For my work, I was awarded the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.
As a teaching fellow for this Core Program lecture course, I taught three sections and received the Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching.