Projects by the Institut for Skills and Innovation

How to encourage interactivity and student participation in a lecture class ?

In this interview, Anne Revillard describes the innovative pedagogy techniques she uses in her interdisciplinary Master’s course ...

A doctoral seminar to learn about pedagogy in higher education

Teaching, like research, demands time, thought and action. To make Science Po’s doctoral students more aware of pedagogical innovations and ...

Innovative Pedagogy: A catalyst for improving inclusiveness and support of students with cognitive and psychological disorders in higher education

Since 2015, Sciences Po has been carrying out pedagogical ...

The teacher’s Lunchboxes – a place where to transform pedagogy and share innovative practices

The teachers’ Lunchboxes are a place dedicated to raising awareness to the educational transformation taking ...

The large lecture : creating interactions between students and professors

Interactivity can help students learn more during their time spent in large lectures. This article focuses on one interactivity ...

Case methodology: learning by doing

Case-based teaching is an active pedagogy that aims at placing students at the heart of complex situations. It crosses disciplinary approaches with a main challenge: ...

Collective projects to the service of professional insertion of our students

Collective projects rely on the active involvement of students in a project they realize, for, and with, an external partner ...

Create a well-being or sustainability index with the students

The course “ Measuring well-being and sustainability in the 21st century ”, created and led by Eloi Laurent and Jacques Le Cacheux, is founded ...

Advice for Teaching Large Lectures

Teaching a large lecture is a major challenge. Professors must overcome the stress they feel from being in front of a large audience of students, whose attention may be ...

Make an appointment at the Clinic (of the Law School) !

It may be surprising to associate terms (apparently) belonging to very different universes and (at first glance) unrelated. Through 5 questions, Jeremy ...

Innovative teaching : the winning bet of teaching history through comics

Comics seem particularly suitable for teaching history in an innovative form. The following experiment is being conducted for several ...

The Arts : A Fruitful Resource for Teaching International Relations

Interview with Frédéric RAMEL, Professor in Political Science, Head of the Political Science Department, Doctoral School and CERI, Sciences ...

The school of the eye

Interview on the school of the eye with Laurence BERTRAND DORLEAC, Professor at Sciences Po, Center of History.

Some Contributions of Cognitive Psychology to Pedagogical Uses of Images

The beneficial effect of images on the understanding of a message – “A picture is worth a thousand words” – is widely accepted and ...

The methodology tutorial

As a symbol of the pedagogy of Sciences Po and guarantee of the success of the institution, the methodology tutorial is now part of the legend and is a genuine place of memory for ...

How can instructors motivate students?

A frequent preoccupation of instructors is to figure-out how to make students work harder and improve their knowledge and skills. What are the driving forces that ...

Young people and images

Every image conveys an ideology. While, during the 1960s-1970s, much was heard about the impact of advertising images, a number of questions have been raised in the last few years: ...