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Mr. Rogers
Improving the Teaching Neighborhood
What is essential is invisible to the eye.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince
Tony Athos, one of the great Harvard Business School (HBS) professors of organizational behavior and interpersonal behavior, coined the term “an instructor’s interlude.” This type of interlude describes the process of a teacher who poses a question to the students, pauses, metaphorically steps to the side of his current stance, and answers the question himself. It is a way to highlight a concept, tell a story, or share an insight that has emerged at that very moment in the classroom. The teacher answers the query and steps back into the regular role as teacher.
Here is an example. The class may ...
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