Assigning students to represent class conversations visually—with words, drawings, and symbols—boosts engagement and agency.

Scott Dyreng wants his students to be more human. His tool of choice: artificial intelligence monitoring his classroom.

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 ...

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 ...

When I first started teaching, my attitude toward students who remained silent in discussion classes could be summed up with the words of Bernard Hopkins, the fistic sage of Philadelphia: “Bernard ...

When Shira Hoffer arrived at Harvard in 2021, she was full of hope, not just about academics or independence, but about connection. As a graduate of a pluralistic Jewish day school, she had grown up ...

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, ...

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A new policy approved by the University of Texas System Board of Regents is limiting classroom discussion of certain "controversial topics" across the UT System, but the ...