“To teach well, you should pay careful attention to what an assignment will make students think about,” Willingham advises, ...

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

A lecture class of around 75 students taking Marquette's new core curriculum that centers civic discourse. The class is designed to help students learn how to disagree respectfully. It’s a Monday ...

T wo books about pedagogy gave Nicholas Kapoor an idea. Kapoor is an instructor of the practice in mathematics at Fairfield University, in Connecticut, where he is also associate director of its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amelia F. Barnum ’28, an Associate Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Winthrop House. Everyone knows that feeling: you look around the table in a meeting or class and realize nobody ...