Teaching

Zahir I. Latheef offers lessons for any class you teach, whether online or in person, requiring group work among students.

This week’s Capitol riots have been repeatedly described as “unthinkable.” Yet happen they did, so how do we start to think about them? Many academics have an answer: the humanities.

Colleges can teach science through a social justice lens and turn curricular challenges into opportunities for inclusive excellence, write Laura W. Burrus, Audrey Parangan-Smith, Blake Riggs and Cathy Samayoa.

As instructors, we can underestimate how much informal, class-adjacent social interactions encourage students to participate in class, write Zachary Nowak and Sarah Bramao-Ramos.

The ABCs of successful advising both before, during and after the pandemic are actually the LRCs: listen, respect and care. That’s according to new data from the National Survey of Student Engagement.

Deborah Parker describes why she decided to teach in person this semester and what she's learned from it.