Students’ cellphone use in class can be a huge headache for teachers—negatively affecting students’ focus, behavior, and learning. While there is a growing movement to ban the devices in schools, many ...

Rather than showing long videos, teachers should design lessons that use clips as resources to spur class discussion.

Somewhere along the way, we decided that your first year of teaching should resemble a medieval endurance test. Duck your head, grit your teeth, and white-knuckle your way to June. Cancel your social ...

Each week, the Center for Teaching Excellence will bring you an easy-to-implement tool that you can use immediately in your classroom teaching. The goals of these tips will be to add to your teaching ...

University educators working in a time of austerity rarely have the time for introducing wholesale revisions to their courses—but any educator can implement what James Lang famously calls “small ...

Music teachers can keep students, families, and the wider school community informed by creating engaging posts.

Have you or your program conducted and completed the analysis steps? Then, you are ready to begin the Backwards Design process for creating your course and developing learning goals, objectives, and ...

Despite the benefits of retrieval practice, students still tend to opt for more passive strategies. Here’s how to embed retrieval in your classroom to show them its power ...