Share reader responses to my recent question: Do colleges value good teaching? Remind you that we have a collection of free advice guides, written by experts, to help improve your teaching. Point you ...
Effective teaching sits at the heart of higher education’s mission to advance learning and discovery. But what are the key components that make up top-quality instruction? And how can these be ...
Senior Columnist Piper Slinka-Petka contends that Penn’s humanities courses should revise their curriculum to minimize reliance on AI assistance. Credit: Devansh Raniwala Students are using artificial ...
How to be a good professor. When we look at how to be a good teacher or a good teaching professor, there are quite a few things you can do. But for me, it comes down to being Crazy, because ...
I had a calling to teach. So many educators do. For me, it started with a small chalkboard and my teddy bears lined up as my first classroom. It led me to pursue a career in teaching, starting first ...
Who is a teacher? A teacher is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competencies or values. Teachers can be referred to using a variety of titles such as educator, tutor, instructor, ...
As a nation, we lean heavily on teachers to help realize the next generation’s potential to meaningfully contribute to their communities. But are we leaning too hard? As any teacher could tell you, ...
For teachers, it may seem the odds of sticking to a fitness resolution are stacked against them. Rigid schedules, chaotic or ...
Yes, we need fair and adequate school funding—but unless we know how to spend it wisely, it won’t make much difference (and a good curriculum costs no more than a bad one). And yes, we need to fight ...
"For background, I was about to enter year eight in education (four years as an aide, two years teaching high school through a nonprofit, and one year as a K-8 classroom teacher)," the user wrote. "I ...
How important is teaching to college professors? The woeful inadequacy of campus support for good teaching has been well documented in these pages. Nonetheless, even while teaching is poorly assessed ...