Creating tasks with a focus on students’ autonomy—by providing choices, for example—helps them see the relevance of homework.

Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my students' attention. “Class, class!” I called. “Yes, yes,” they responded in unison. “I have ...

As the fall term winds down, many of us are thinking ahead to the winter and spring, planning courses and refreshing syllabi in anticipation of the coming year. One part of the syllabus design that ...

T wo books about pedagogy gave Nicholas Kapoor an idea. Kapoor is an instructor of the practice in mathematics at Fairfield University, in Connecticut, where he is also associate director of its ...

Dr. Emanuel is a physician and a professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. I’ve taught the same course to a class of undergraduate, M.B.A., medical and nursing ...