Teaching 100: The Theory and Science of Teaching

Harvard FAS

For many graduate students and medical educators, teaching will be part of their career, whether as mentoring, formal classroom teaching, or teaching in the hospital. In addition, the theory and research evidence accumulating in the disciplines of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and from STEM classrooms, has turned the question of “How do we best teach science and medicine?” into its own scientific discipline. The Theory and Science of Teaching focuses on understanding why…