Advice | How to Get Through The Year, and Maybe Even Thrive
Four ways to nurture academic well-being in these uniquely challenging times.
Does Your Syllabus Sound Like You?
Open-access tools developed at Baylor U. and MIT help instructors be intentional in their syllabus language.
Recapturing the Fun of Teaching
Faculty development is often about putting out fires. This program is meant to offer some fun.
Prompt Students to Reflect Before Your Course Even Starts
How one professor uses a “math memoir” assignment to give students a reference point for their own learning.
What Does an A Mean? Readers Weigh In.
A number of responses focused on the idea of mastery.
Professors Have Been Urged to Adopt More-Effective Teaching Practices. Why Are Their Results So Mixed?
h/t Karen Costa
ChatGPT, and Other Topics That Caught Your Attention
Our annual look back on the issues that resonated with readers.
What’s the Best Way to Frame Test Questions?
New research examines whether framing around a real, named scientist, a classmate, or “you” affects students’ performance and science identity.
Teaching: Help students unlock the power of human connection on campus
A new book offers students advice for forming relationships with classmates, professors, and staffers that are central to a good college experience.
A ‘Good Enough’ Approach to Encouraging Attendance
Professors are still struggling to get students to come to class. An expert reminds them that they can do only so much.