I’ve always found that getting into the heads of your students is one of the best ways to learn what they bring with them into the classroom. In today’s stressful, standardized testing-based culture, ...

A controversial writing assignment that asked eighth-graders in Rialto to consider sources that contend the Holocaust never happened is a “bad mark on our record” that will be fixed, a spokeswoman for ...

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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 ...

Travis Grandy is a PhD student in Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Find him on Twitter @travisgrandy or at his website. I work with a lot of instructors who use ...

Monique Trauger was nervous. So were her students at Thomas K. Finletter Academics Plus School in the Olney section of North Philadelphia. The assignment was personal and open-ended and all sorts of ...

Today we will experiment with a new form called the tandem story. The process is simple. Each person will pair off with the person sitting to his or her immediate right. One of you will then write the ...

Why do you do what you do? What is the engine that keeps you up late at night or gets you going in the morning? Where is your happy place? What stands between you and your ultimate dream? Heavy ...

A Fairfax County, Virginia mother raised concerns about an assignment that prompted students to analyze an anti-Secondment Amendment persuasive essay sample. The concerned parent, Darcey Geissler, ...