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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If teaching were like following a recipe, it would be a much easier job. Unlike the reliable and straightforward process of baking a batch of chocolate chip cookies, practices that work in a morning ...

In the context of vocational English education, game-based teaching has emerged as a potential solution to address ...