Case Studies from the Classroom: Dilemmas, Dynamics, and the Making of the Teacher

Harvard HGSE

How should a good teacher stand? How do they move through a room? What does the good teacher sound like? And when faced with a genuinely hard situation in the classroom, what do you actually do? The answers are necessarily different depending on our contexts, our students, and, of course, ourselves. The course is less interested in the platonic ideal of the good teacher than in how each candidate — as themselves, with their particular histories, voices, and bodies — learns to navigate the…