Annotation—the seemingly simple act of marking a text—is often diminished as a marginal practice. It is prohibited in physical objects and considered irr...

What the Best College Teachers Do is perhaps the most important book I’ve ever read.

A ceramics teacher once split her students into two groups.

I had the good fortune to meet her in a UDL course for higher Ed educators and her final project dazzled me and left me wanting to know more about her use of conversational quizzes in her course. I also wanted to get the word out to others who may see this as a useful tool in their teaching toolbox.

I’ve been teaching—with kids and adults, in schools and online—since 2005. But not this academic year. As the new year starts, ten provocations about education are on my mind. Perhaps one wil…

responding to individual student challenges early in the school year

Designing courses for success in the year to come

Questions or comments about this episode? Send us a text message. We’re back with another Take It or Leave It panel. I invited three colleagues whose work and thinking I admire very much to come on the show and to compress their complex and nuanced thoughts on teaching and learning into artificial binaries! The panelists for this edition of Take It or Leave It are… Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the Univer…

A recent Chronicle of Higher Education essay suggests that classrooms are nonsocial spaces where facilitating belonging is not within educators' scope of practice. We forcefully disagree.

Biomimicry Teaching & Learning Checklist This doc lives at: https://bit.ly/biomimicrychecklist This checklist has been prepared for higher educators as a tool to explore the concept of biomimicry, which is a design practice of learning from the natural world (of which humans are also a part). B...

joy cards Tiny ways to infuse delight into teaching and learning Curated by Eugene Korsunskiy, Dartmouth College DOWNLOAD THE PDF SUBMIT YOUR IDEA We do our best work when we're having fun. And the world needs our best work, so we owe it to the universe to bring joy into what we do. As ...

David Gooblar, The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You About College Teaching. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.

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Simple videos? The hard part is actually getting the confidence to talk on camera. Check out the whole series! New videos posted every week.E1: 10 Tips Beyo...

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One of the things I think we don't talk about enough in trauma-informed assessment is that some students never had someone who cared enough about them to…

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Proposing a grand experiment.

We asked professors, students, and high-school counselors.