Drifting
Our students have been drifting away, Helen Kapstein writes, but we want them to drift back to the mindset of being challenged and challenging.
View ArticleAnatomy of an AI Essay
How might you distinguish one from a human-composed counterpart? After analyzing dozens, Elizabeth Steere lists some key predictable features.
View ArticleUngrading for Hope
Tony Perman shares four key benefits and how, at best, ungrading helps create a classroom community that can take a semester’s journey in tandem.
View ArticleWhat Could a Theologian Have to Say About Good Writing?
Just like those in other disciplines, we must persuade students of its value and help them cultivate ways to enhance clarity of expression and style, writes James Ball.
View ArticleThe Crisis of Disclosure on Our Campuses
As students reveal upsetting personal information to us, we must help them transform it in ways that become meaningful, writes Deborah J. Cohan.
View ArticleHelping Students to Not Snub Each Other in Class
Jeremy T. Murphy outlines five ways to encourage them to shift their focus from the instructor to one another in whole class discussions.
View ArticleTeaching Markets and Morality
The need for students to consider the touch points between big moral questions and today’s political and financial issues is more pressing than ever, write Peter Boumgarden and Abram Van Engen.
View ArticleThe Secret to a Meaningful Start: Miss Your Mark
The first day of class sets the tone for the entire semester, writes David R. Bowne, who has developed an unusual yet successful way to do so—with M&Ms.
View ArticleCollege as To-Do List
As learning management systems dominate, and students juggle competing priorities, Susan D. Blum asks, where is the joy, the adventure, the meaning?
View ArticleTeaching English in a Chinese Way
Many academics criticize traditional lectures as being too passive and old-fashioned, but they actually help enhance pedagogical diversity, writes Xinqiang Li.
View ArticleThe Imperfect Tutor: Grading, Feedback and AI
Patricia Taylor has found using AI takes more time and creates more problems than not if instructors want students to get meaningful feedback on their work.
View ArticleIncreasing Student Motivation Through Assignment Choice
Offering options helps make them more affirming and meaningful, which ultimately increases student learning, writes Christine Harrington.
View ArticleMinding the Perception Gap in College Math Classrooms and Beyond
Math educator Sheila Tabanli offers three instructional strategies that instructors teaching the “most hated subject” can integrate into courses to create a community of learners focused on compassion...
View ArticleAgainst Argument
By focusing on it, students may better understand different perspectives on an issue, Scott Parker writes, but will they also lose sight of their own?
View ArticleHelping Neurodiverse Students Learn Through New Classroom Design
Michael Tyre offers some insights into how architects and administrators can work together to create better learning environments for everyone.
View ArticleOvercoming the Digital Divide With No Digital
Carrie Rogers-Whitehead shares the challenges faculty members can encounter teaching classes in prisons that have few, if any, basic technological tools.
View ArticleThe Pros and Cons of Ceding Control
Something’s to be said for students seeing a professor step out from behind the lectern and face uncertainty with a sense of calmness and confidence, writes Mike Land.
View ArticleMindful Teaching in Moments of Tension
Rosalie Metro offers ideas for facilitating sensitive classroom conversations with compassion this election season.
View ArticleYour PowerPoints Probably Suck
But you can easily improve them, writes Zachary Nowak, who offers 10 suggestions for how to do that.
View ArticleNavigating Difficult Classroom Conversations
Tricia Shalka offers strategies for preparing for, and leading, classroom discussions in moments of crisis and discomfort.
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