Raise your hand if you’ve had the following experience. You spend a week lecturing students on course content, and their nodding heads and furious note-taking throughout suggest that they are tracking ...
Thanks to the bogus Black Lives Matter Movement spreading over America like a contagion, a white high school teacher has become empowered to lecture his students that all white people are racist. The ...
Lecturing has long been a central mode of instruction in higher education, but it’s also become a battleground for debates about effectiveness. In faculty workshops and pedagogical guides, we often ...
A high school teacher in Puyallup, Washington, was placed on paid administrative leave last week after a student-made recording was shared on a local show of her having a contentious discussion with ...
Dee Gillespie is a Professor of US History in the Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy, and a winner of the 2022 Teaching Excellence Award. "No more sage on the stage." "No more ...
Flipped instruction, as I define it, isn’t about teachers videotaping lectures for students to watch before class. It’s about less lecturing, and more active learning. It’s about giving students ...
“You’re a terrible teacher. No one cares about school.” Well, that’s definitely something a teacher never wants to hear during his or her career. Those words have been uttered by students before, ...
On college campuses right now, the talk is all about antiracism, equity and inclusion. These are good conversations, and long overdue. But to actually achieve these goals, one of the most effective ...
Do you feel guilty when you lecture? Perhaps you’re afraid that you’re shortchanging students. That, instead, you should be flipping your classroom and getting “active” through group exercises. But ...