As the reality sinks in that the shift to online education will continue indefinitely—and some of it permanently—now is a particularly good time to re-examine our beliefs about effective teaching. We ...
A good learning environment is best created by teachers for the benefit of students No matter what curriculum a school has, good teaching practices are always based on a set of principles, such as ...
The Mississippi Department of Education’s Office of Elementary Education and Reading, Division of Literacy, has honored the ...
Picture this: It’s your first day as a graduate student instructor. You’re armed with a stack of syllabi, a mind full of academic theories and the unshakable feeling that you might be in way over your ...
There's a large misalignment between what the public thinks and what the research says about student learning and effective teaching—and it has important implications for policy. It’s a set of ...
Columnist Barth Keck, who is teaching a community college introductory composition course in retirement, says he's learned that students' writing style on Reader Responses does not match the style of ...
What is grading? Why are grading principles and practices important? To “grade” students’ work is among the most difficult and time-consuming tasks of instructors and TAs. Grading is a process of ...
Some call John Wooden the Wizard of Westwood because his UCLA teams dominated college basketball in the 1960s and early ’70s. But to that, Coach Wooden says, “I’m no wizard. I am a teacher.” He says ...
In the context of vocational English education, game-based teaching has emerged as a potential solution to address ...