By Anahit Manoukian, Spanish and Portuguese Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2025 One of the most challenging aspects of teaching a second-semester reading and composition course is introducing students to secondary sources. When I designed my “Letters from the Hispanic World” course, I intentionally focused on primary texts to…
By Neel Modi, Physics Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2025 Physics, as a field of study, lives somehow at the intersection of two contradictory paradigms. On the one hand, it is highly abstract and technical–arguably one of the most math-heavy STEM fields you can choose to study in college.
By Ishani Chesire, Astronomy Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2025 It was a situation many GSIs are familiar with: following the first midterm in Astron 7B, a student approached me looking nervous and asked to talk about her grade. She had not done well in the midterm, but even…