IN THE course of more than forty years of teaching I have often been asked, “When you teach creative writing, what do you teach?” Books dealing with technique have their function, no doubt, in a ...

The way teachers manage classroom discussion with pupils plays a key role in the teaching of writing, a new study shows. The way teachers manage classroom discussion with pupils plays a key role in ...

Incorporating handwriting lessons can have numerous benefits for older students—here’s how to get them started.

At a recent conference on teaching in higher education, I attended a session on ChatGPT. The session organizers, a team from the University of Central Florida, began by asking us to position ourselves ...

I first read Susan Cain's Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking sitting by a pool in Las Vegas. I remember moving along nicely through the book when I came across a ...

Teaching students how to write disciplinarily is a difficult task, especially when that way of writing includes writing together in teams. Team writing is a challenge many faculty across campus have ...

“Ungrading” is one of those topics that inspires a lot of pushback when it comes up in faculty circles. Susan D. Blum, editor of a new book on the subject, says that’s because most administrators, ...

In 2010, the University of Wisconsin’s School of Education partnered with the College of Letters & Sciences to start the Greater Madison Writing Project in affiliation with the National Writing ...

Teaching is a major component of almost all faculty positions. Surprisingly, then, even an almost complete lack of experience and training–in teaching and student learning–will probably not prove to ...

A few months ago, I pulled out a kids’ book for my seven-year-old to read to me. She opened the first page, shook her head ...

Print is dead. New Jersey is flipping the script and ordering its public schools to bring back cursive writing starting next ...

The teaching of grammar in primary schools in England (a key feature of England's national curriculum) does not appear to help children's narrative writing, although it may help them generate ...