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Newsletter Archive
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May 16, 2024
Teaching in an ‘Era of Volatility’
Experts share advice for navigating a crisis — and preparing for future ones. -
May 9, 2024
How to Teach About Contentious Topics Like Israel and Hamas
One professor shares his approach to debating fraught issues. -
May 2, 2024
What Does an A Mean? Readers Weigh In.
A number of responses focused on the idea of mastery. -
April 25, 2024
How Has ChatGPT Affected Your Teaching This Semester?
We want to hear whether things have improved, gotten worse, or stayed about the same. -
April 18, 2024
An Overlooked Way Professors Can Be Role Models
Revealing unseen parts of their identities could help science instructors show students what’s possible for them, a researcher says. -
April 11, 2024
More on How — and Whether — to Develop Students’ Study Skills
An essay on “studenting skills” prompted thoughts from readers. -
April 4, 2024
Why Professors ‘Should Not Be Scared’ to Extend Deadlines
After studying his “extension without penalty” model in a large biology course, a professor offers reassurance. -
March 28, 2024
Should You Teach Your Students How to Be Students?
A teaching expert challenges professors to add skill-building to their syllabi. Should that be their role? -
March 21, 2024
What Students Think About Active Learning
Students who’ve taken a flipped math course ask for more. Plus, new evidence on how the pandemic shifted students’ knowledge of active learning. -
March 14, 2024
Tackling Stale Discussion Posts, Poor Reading Skills, and Other Challenges
We dive into these dilemmas with readers’ help, and some questions for you.