Share reader responses to my recent question: Do colleges value good teaching? Remind you that we have a collection of free advice guides, written by experts, to help improve your teaching. Point you ...

Effective teaching sits at the heart of higher education’s mission to advance learning and discovery. But what are the key components that make up top-quality instruction? And how can these be ...

The courage to tell my own stories, even the uncomfortable ones, transformed how I show up for my students and for myself.

"That was the best class ever!" "She is the best professor on campus." "That class made waking up at noon worth it." These are the kinds of student comments that professors (and probably their parents ...

No one mentioned teaching portfolios in the professional-development seminars I attended as a doctoral student, so when I encountered requests for that item (or the vaguer “evidence of teaching ...

This is a summary of a Q&A interview that appears on the Office of the Provost. How can faculty teach more effectively, more joyfully, and more efficiently? That question guided the work of Duke’s ...

Many educators feel powerless to do much about the complex and fast-moving crisis the United States is in. Many feel that the very foundation of our educational system is at stake, and a palpable ...

And yet, reading scores have been stagnant or declining since 1998 and math scores since 2010, and gaps between low- and high-scorers have been widening. At the high school level, there’s been no ...

Teaching techniques refer to the diverse array of strategies and methodologies employed by educators to engage students and facilitate effective learning experiences. What are some examples of ...

How to be a good professor. When we look at how to be a good teacher or a good teaching professor, there are quite a few things you can do. But for me, it comes down to being Crazy, because ...

Senior Columnist Piper Slinka-Petka contends that Penn’s humanities courses should revise their curriculum to minimize reliance on AI assistance. Credit: Devansh Raniwala Students are using artificial ...