Teaching

For international teaching assistants feeling undue pressure to create the perfect classroom dynamic, Deborah Saki offers some advice.

Asking students to converse with chat bots can help them see academic inquiry as a conversation, Michael Millner writes.

Heather Setka writes that female colleagues can be one another’s best supports in teaching in male-dominated classrooms.

Tricia Shalka offers strategies for preparing for, and leading, classroom discussions in moments of crisis and discomfort.

But you can easily improve them, writes Zachary Nowak, who offers 10 suggestions for how to do that.

Rosalie Metro offers ideas for facilitating sensitive classroom conversations with compassion this election season.

Something’s to be said for students seeing a professor step out from behind the lectern and face uncertainty with a sense of calmness and confidence, writes Mike Land.

Carrie Rogers-Whitehead shares the challenges faculty members can encounter teaching classes in prisons that have few, if any, basic technological tools.