The American Heritage Guide to Contemporary Usage and Style (2005). Boston and New York: Houghton-Mifflin. In cases where you do want to correct grammatical usage in a student’s writing, this is a useful guide. You may also want to quote or direct the student to specific pages so that they…
What neuroscience tells us about how students learn. Based on a talk by Daniela Kaufer (Integrative Biology).
By Xueqin Lin, School of Education Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2025 One of the challenges I encountered while teaching lab sessions for EDUC 293A: Data Analysis in Education Research in Fall 2025 was supporting students struggling with statistical software, particularly Stata. One student, who had no…
Trauma is an “event, series of events, or set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual’s functioning and…wellbeing (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 2024).
GSIs can begin to build inclusive classrooms by letting students know what they can expect of the GSI and the learning community they are co-creating. We encourage you to set shared expectations by sharing a statement about your commitment to inclusion, establishing community agreements, and specifying how…
By Karen Villegas, Education Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2024 As an undergraduate student, I remember dreading group work and public presentations. As a doctoral candidate, I came to value the experience of collaborating on research projects and presenting our findings at academic conferences. There was something special about genuine collaboration,…
By Thomas Lee, Political Science Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2024 Many students in my political theory courses every semester would come to my office hours distressed about how they should go about writing their political theory papers. While the wide-ranging possibilities of political theorizing reflected in the paper questions were…
Plot the Semester Once you have developed the sequence of course’s instructional units and a sense of the major assignments and learning activities of your course, you can begin plotting these into a semester schedule. This is where instructors can often struggle, as it can feel as if there are…
By Douglas Van, Political Science Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2023 The history of political thought is enigmatic. Studying ideas well requires students to take seriously the beliefs and moral commitments of persons from radically different contexts from one another and from themselves. In a survey course like Democracy: Ancient and…
By Nancy Freitas, Energy and Resources Group Teaching Effectiveness Award Essay, 2023 Figuring out how to fund your research and education as a graduate student is a daunting task. Most of us know that writing for grants and fellowships can help defray these costs, but learning how to navigate applications,…