The Chronicle of Higher Education

Running Class Discussions on Divisive Topics Is Tricky. Here's One Promising Approach.

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 ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education

How to Build a Better Class Discussion

My research on teaching and learning in higher education began when I was hired as a graduate assistant at the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, at Northwestern University, back in the late 1990s ...
KQED

How Classroom Political Discussions — Controversies, Too — Prepare Students for Needed Civic Participation

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 ...
The Brown Daily Herald

Caira ’22: For better classroom discussions, everyone must feel comfortable speaking

Since coming to Brown, I’ve noticed that men tend to speak more frequently in my classroom discussions. I’ve had many conversations with friends about this who have noticed the same trend across a ...