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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

One of Kevin Gannon’s favorite class discussion activities doesn’t involve much talking. Inspired by complete-the-story games in which players each write a line of a tale that builds off a previous ...

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 ...