Comedian Steve Martin once said that teaching is like show business. I try to keep this in mind when I’m giving college lectures. But what happens when the entertaining professor gets upstaged by a ...

Full-time faculty who regularly teach large classes and will be teaching at least one large class in the 2025-26 AY. (What counts as “large” varies by discipline; application calls for class size[s] ...

It's July, and many academics are likely finalizing their syllabi for the upcoming academic year. For those who may be considering adopting one of my books, I have an offer: if you assign the book, or ...

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.

I recently met Emma, an autistic college student, who talked about navigating life at a mid-Atlantic university. Professors, she said, “can make or break your experience” in a course. Her favorite ...

I have now been teaching at Duke University for 20 years. I have been through all kinds of teaching fads—active learning, team-based learning, alternative grading, service learning, etc. You might ...

One of the first lessons I learned when I began teaching was to “overplan.” Assume that your lesson is going to be done early and have a related activity ready to go. However, like many important ...