Journals have become a popular format in recent years for courses that require some writing. In-class journal entries can spark discussions and reveal gaps in students' understanding of the material.

Use a defined format with an introduction, body and a conclusion to organize your thoughts logically Include relevant facts, examples, and explanations in each body paragraph. Also reflect on their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 lot of academics were in the midst of devising policies and testing pedagogical responses to ChatGPT — the chatbot released in November that generates plausible-sounding, original text at a user’s ...