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Newsletter Archive
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Sept. 29, 2022Advice From Students Who’ve Taken Your Course Before
As her class began a group project, a professor turned to former students for support. -
Sept. 22, 2022
How Should Professors Evaluate Class Participation?
The key to success, some say, is to give students options and ask them to reflect on their involvement. -
Sept. 15, 2022
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. -
Sept. 8, 2022
Is It Time to Redefine Class Participation?
Some professors are reconsidering what they want from student engagement. -
Sept. 1, 2022
Your Teaching Doesn’t Need to Be Perfect
The authors of The New College Classroom, which came out this week, talk through their approach to “teaching fails.” -
Aug. 25, 2022
What We’ve Learned From Five Years of ‘Teaching’
On the anniversary of this newsletter, we look at how the field has changed. -
Aug. 18, 2022
Help Your Students Move Beyond Passive Listening
Classrooms aren’t always designed for moving around. Here are some ideas for making it happen anyhow. -
Aug. 11, 2022
‘What Teaching Looks Like’
The authors of a book based on 15 years of documentary photography invite us to reflect in a new way on what happens in the classroom. -
Aug. 4, 2022
How Campuses Plan to Tackle Disengagement This Fall
College leaders reflect on what went wrong last year and how to make things better this time around. -
July 28, 2022
The Potential — and Possible Pitfalls — of Teaching Tracks
I share further thoughts and feedback from my recent story on universities creating career tracks for teaching professors.
