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 ...

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 ...

Engaging interactive tasks can help middle school students more easily understand complex informational and literary works.

Some students and educators say classroom discussions are starting to feel more formulaic as generative AI becomes more common in academic work, though broad evidence of a campus-wide shift remains ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...