Assigning students to represent class conversations visually—with words, drawings, and symbols—boosts engagement and agency.

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 ...

At some point in their career, every teacher will find themselves having a difficult discussion with their students. My first took place not long after I began teaching. It involved one of my students ...

Teachers can use these research-based cognitive and behavioral cues to help students feel capable, focused, and ready to work ...

A lecture class of around 75 students taking Marquette's new core curriculum that centers civic discourse. The class is designed to help students learn how to disagree respectfully. It’s a Monday ...

L ectures are boring. Assignments are busy work. And all of that tuition is for this? When Justin Shaffer hears these kinds of complaints from students, he thinks they have a point. He also thinks ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

Asking students to dissect the motivations of a character in a book is doing more than teaching them about plot and characterization. This exercise also helps students learn to see different ...

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