As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions. As we ...

Strategies like extending wait time and having students write before speaking create conditions for English learners to feel ...

Some students and educators say classroom discussions are starting to feel more formulaic as generative AI becomes more ...

At some point in their career, every teacher will find themselves having a difficult discussion with their students. My first took place not long after I began teaching. It involved one of my students ...

L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...

I am grateful for the care and commitment you bring each day to your classrooms—inspiring students to share their insights and experiences in an authentic way. This, of course, contributes to creating ...

When the class discussion begins, Moath Alghamdi braces himself. A fourth-year in air transportation, Alghamdi balances his focus between his professor and notebook, writing quickly to try and capture ...

Asking students to dissect the motivations of a character in a book is doing more than teaching them about plot and characterization. This exercise also helps students learn to see different ...

Why aren’t your students doing the assigned reading? This year, that question has stumped faculty members across higher education. As people who have dedicated large chunks of our lives to books, we ...

By the time children reach elementary school, teachers can usually predict which students will volunteer answers, speak ...