Teaching

Will proposal for streamlined general-education program at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences give the curriculum new life? Can new approaches to language and diversity engage students who might otherwise lose interest?

The German apprenticeship model offers many valuable lessons but must be adapted to be successful in the U.S., writes Thomas Lichtenberger.

Finding many educators are using outdated flipped learning techniques, a new group proposes global training standards to keep them up to date.

New study of faculty motivation for teaching says certain kinds of motivation -- intrinsic and believing that teaching is important -- are linked to use of best teaching practices, across institution types. Rewards and guilt appear to have no bearing on best practices.

What if we looked at not how much students learned from us, Paul F. Diehl asks, but how much we as instructors learned from students?

MLA data show foreign language study is on the decline, but it's unclear what comes first: institutional disinvestment in language programs or waning student interest. In any case, some campuses -- generally those making investments in programs -- are bucking the trend.

As faculty members in the classroom, we can learn something by looking at the inverse of attributes of good teaching, writes Paul F. Diehl.

Study says students rate male instructors more highly than women even when they're teaching identical courses.