Comedian Steve Martin once said that teaching is like show business. I try to keep this in mind when I’m giving college lectures. But what happens when the entertaining professor gets upstaged by a ...
January 29, 2026 - In 1985, Merryl Goldberg went to the Soviet Union and met The Phantom Orchestra. To help them she made up a secret code, hidden in sheet music. When I first went to a free yoga ...
Full-time faculty who regularly teach large classes and will be teaching at least one large class in the 2025-26 AY. (What counts as “large” varies by discipline; application calls for class size[s] ...
Lately when I talk with faculty members about their courses and classrooms, I often have to say something that few of them want to hear: Your undergraduates need you to teach them “studenting” skills.
Dear Professors, As the new semester gets into full swing, I have a simple but vital request for you: Start teaching your classes as if your students have done all the readings. If you already do this ...
One of the first lessons I learned when I began teaching was to “overplan.” Assume that your lesson is going to be done early and have a related activity ready to go. However, like many important ...
When I taught about social class in my Intimacy, Marriages and Families course this past semester, I began with reflection and a sticky note, not with a lecture or statistics. This wasn’t the first ...
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