Teaching is many things. It’s a profession and a passion, tedious and rewarding, infuriating and full of joy. For some, ...

At the inaugural Columbia SPS Faculty Summit on AI Teaching and Learning, faculty and industry experts explored AI’s emerging ...

Hypothetical scenario: Next year, the American Historical Association releases a report recommending that generative AI “should be available for every student during every history class. Students ...

We can teach leadership just as we teach other skills—by introducing concepts in the classroom, identifying applications in ...

The teaching profession—a workforce of 3 million—is at an inflection point that could shape the course of the profession for the next generation of educators and students. For the last few years, ...

Instead of evaluating faculty based on their teaching ability, institutions often rely on scholarly output as a proxy for professional competence. These measures, while important, fail to account for ...

W hen Phoebe Young began working at the University of Colorado at Boulder as an assistant professor of history in 2009, her annual teaching reviews were fairly perfunctory. Everyone knew, she says, ...

Teacher burnout. By this time of the school year, the phrase has been bandied about so frequently—behind closed classroom doors, in the aisles of grocery stores, by the media—that it threatens to ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) is no longer something students encounter only in advanced laboratories or specialized courses.

One hundred years ago a young teacher, John T. Scopes, went on trial in Dayton, Tenn., for violating a recently enacted state law that forbade the state’s educators “to teach any theory that denies ...

Carolyn Heward co-authored the initial systematic review on public humiliation. This piece draws on that work and subsequent research by colleagues examining teaching by humiliation in medical ...