Discussion is a large part of teaching and learning. We want to see and hear our learners engaged in conversations about the course content, making connections to their lives or to other aspects of ...

Why Are Class Discussions Challenging? There are a variety of reasons that class discussions are challenging. It’s not necessarily just students being “lazy”. There could be a lot of real issues and ...

If you’ve been teaching for a while, you’ve probably noticed how your learners are no longer the same. Their habits, f ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Baylor University Professor Sarah Ford provided an overview of Eudora Welty's life and talents in photography and writing. Pulitzer Prize–winning ...

As we approach the fall semester, one thing everyone who is returning to in-person teaching should be thinking about is how they will run discussions. Class discussions have always been complicated, ...

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 ...

Robin Wilson’s “A Not-So-Professorial Watchdog” (The Chronicle, November 10) — reporting on Anne D. Neal, president of the American Council of Trustees and Alumni — was a commendable effort to report ...

Excerpted from Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All by Holly Korbey. A Twenty-first Century Guide to Politics in the Classroom In a four-year study of classroom political ...

According to various reports, the general counsel at the University of Idaho has issued guidance to university employees regarding the state's new abortion law. Of particular interest is the guidance ...

While traveling abroad this week, a black graduate student at New York University says he was told by a classmate that a class discussion was easier to facilitate without a “black presence” in the ...