Creativity is the key to keeping the current generation engaged in the classroom. “Today’s students have so many more distractions—buzzes and beeps from their cellphones letting them constantly know ...

The history of the American working class is a subject obscure to the Old and New Left alike. For the most part, academic and labour scholarship has been institutional history focusing on the trade ...

Think of your lesson as a story and your lesson plan as its script. And remember that a good plan considers the people involved in the lesson, not just the activities Lesson plans are useful not just ...

Students will work in small groups to participate in brainstorming and fact-finding activities to introduce them to the concept of negotiation and compromise. They will learn negotiation and ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What introductory activities are you planning to do, or have done already, with students to begin this highly unusual new school year (specifically—first day, first ...

A problematic trend I notice when conversing with students is how many of them struggle to remember what they did in modules from previous semesters. These discussions got me thinking about how to ...

For most of my 14 years of teaching, I’ve assigned “bell work” while attending to beginning-of-class duties. For longer than I care to admit, my bell ringers were bad. These mini-assignments were well ...