Hello and welcome to Teaching, a weekly newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education. First, Beckie explores one approach to a common problem: leading substantive classroom discussions on ...

Whenever you lead a class discussion, you naturally want to see your students eagerly participating. It shows they’re engaged, and that’s surely a prerequisite for learning. But too often academics ...

Suddenly, the mood in the room shifts. Maybe we expected it because of the content we teach or because of current events. Maybe the tension seemed to come out of nowhere, the product of things ...

As we approach the fall semester, one thing everyone who is returning to in-person teaching should be thinking about is how they will run discussions. Class discussions have always been complicated, ...

At some point in their career, every teacher will find themselves having a difficult discussion with their students. My first took place not long after I began teaching. It involved one of my students ...

Excerpted from Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All by Holly Korbey. A Twenty-first Century Guide to Politics in the Classroom In a four-year study of classroom political ...

Classroom discussions about language, or racial or sexual identities can trigger powerful sentiments, and the line between a heated debate and a confrontational exchange can quickly become blurred.

This seems to be the common rule in most classrooms. It is easily explained in a lecture setting. Indeed, everyone must be focused on what the professor is saying. A discussion would only create a ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Near the end of class, they catch themselves staring at the clock, like many high-school students do. But these kids want the clock to go slower. They want more time. This week, ...

Alabama lawmakers on Wednesday advanced GOP-backed legislation to ban discussion of "divisive concepts" in classroom lessons and worker trainings on race and gender. The bill would prohibit a list of ...

This article from March 2018 was updated in response to the attack on Robb Elementary School in Ulvade, Texas. In the years since the mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in ...