Beckie Supiano writes about teaching, learning, and the human interactions that shape them. Follow her on Twitter @becksup, or drop her a line at beckie.supiano@chronicle.com.
Stories by this Author
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TeachingWhen the Cat Destroys Your Sweater, Knit Something New
For more than two years, professors have tried to get back to pre-pandemic teaching. Maybe that’s why students and professors are feeling so frustrated. -
Teaching
How Can STEM Instructors Show Students They Belong?
Pushed by its graduate students to build a more welcoming climate for Black students, a department created a tool kit for inclusive and antiracist instruction. -
Teaching
Flexibility, Disengagement, and Other Top Topics of 2022
We look back on the themes that resonated most with readers this year. -
Teaching
How Instructors Are Rethinking Late Work
Pandemic teaching pushed many professors to be more flexible about deadlines. Our colleague reports on how that’s shaking out now. -
Teaching
Flipping a Class Helps — but Not for the Reason You’d Think
A new meta-analysis complicates the picture on flipping the classroom and proposes an alternative approach. -
Teaching
Want Students to Think Deeply? Help Them Do Nothing.
A new course is meant to help students remember that they’re full humans. -
Teaching
Do Your Students Know What Office Hours Are For?
A new paper reveals differences between how professors and students regard this common form of support. -
The Debate Over Rigor
What Does It Mean When Students Can’t Pass Your Course?
The case of an NYU organic-chemistry professor centers on one of teaching’s thorny questions. -
Teaching
Advice From Students Who’ve Taken Your Course Before
As her class began a group project, a professor turned to former students for support. -
Teaching
What Students Learn About Diversity From Discussing Rice
A professor explains why she sets the stage for her political-science courses by asking students how their family or culture prepares the staple.
