These reflections and tips can help teachers—especially new teachers—ensure that students will be actively engaged in ...

Doug Kysar ’98 arrived at Harvard Law School in 1995 fully expecting to become a practicing attorney. But, in a sense, the law school talked him out of it. An unexpected chance to be a teaching ...

In lesson author Tim Smyth’s book, “Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels: Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom” (Routledge 2022), he discuss ...

Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. For my next few installments, I’m writing letters to people who have ...

Activities for students and lesson plan ideas based on Times articles, photos, videos and graphs.

The new question of the week is: What lessons have teachers learned since initial school closures occurred two years ago? My friend, colleague, and co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski and I co-wrote this ...

When I was a kid, I remember watching as a neighborhood boy was chased out of his house by his mother. She ran after him, shouting, “I’ll teach you to back-talk me!” I was confused. Surely, this boy ...

This student is truly opposed to their art teacher's assignment, and people are divided 50/50 on whether or not they should comply with the lesson plan. Teaching is always evolving. Each year, ...