Lately when I talk with faculty members about their courses and classrooms, I often have to say something that few of them want to hear: Your undergraduates need you to teach them “studenting” skills.

Heidi Lawrence’s path to awe started more than a decade ago when she began working on ideas for her Ph.D. in English literature. Exploring Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time and other adolescent ...

“We are not here to teach skills.” (The word “skills” often comes out covered in stank.) “We teach students how to think critically, communicate clearly, and analyze interestingly and those are things ...

High school is no joke these days. A whirlwind of responsibilities—including homework, extracurricular activities and even a job—can leave many teenagers feeling overwhelmed or disorganized. In the ...

When Emily Sanders worked as a high school English teacher, she never imagined being tasked with teaching her colleagues how to incorporate artificial intelligence into lesson plans. “I learned how to ...

There’s a difference between teaching to the test and developing test-specific thinking that will help students effectively ...

Not every student learns the same. This seemingly simple concept lies at the heart of the term neurodiversity, which refers to differences in the brain’s form or function that impact how people ...

Creating good presentations has always been an important part of learning and teaching. Students use slides to explain ideas, ...

What is being lost in the tumult is the basic purpose of education: teaching students to think for themselves.

Experts say that, if done right, generative AI could be a useful tool in helping students improve their writing. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers one topic: ...

Fractions are a foundational piece for tackling mathematics at all levels of schooling. Students need to understand how two numbers interact with each other as numerators and denominators, as ratios, ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Leading in the AI Era,” available in the Chronicle Store. E arlier this year Ohio State University announced an AI Fluency program, ...