Dear Faculty Relations: I’ve had students make ignorant comments during class. How do I deal with microaggressions and other problems I see happening in my classroom and manage discussions about ...

Professors Joseph (Joe) Badaracco and Suraj Srinivasan are the co-chairs of the Classroom Culture and Norms Working Group. Established by Dean Srikant Datar in the fall of 2023, the four working ...

College students are habituated to a classroom norm sociologists call civil attention: creating the appearance of paying attention (sitting still, looking awake, scribbling or typing) while ...

There’s a moment, in the best of school years, when the disparate individuals we lead in learning transform into a team. As a whole, the class enters a state of flow, gloriously focused on a ...

No matter what traumatic or highly politicized events happen in the world—like the Capitol Insurrection, the police killing of George Floyd, or the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman-Douglas High ...

The first few weeks of school are more than a fresh start–they’re a powerful opportunity to lay the foundation for the relationships, habits, and learning that will define the rest of the year. During ...

Your selections reflect how you navigate classroom discussions. As you scroll through the page, consider how these strategies can complement your teaching preferences. Classrooms are spaces where ...

A co-chair of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences committee that examined self-censorship and classroom culture was caught off guard when FAS Dean Hopi E. Hoekstra cited the committee’s report to justify ...

Debate, disagreement, and discomfort have a productive role to play in the process of learning, and our students generally share our faculty’s sense that classrooms should be a site of vigorous and ...

Teachers are human and, like all humans, can get angry and frustrated—sometimes with an individual student or sometimes with an entire class. Especially during the first years of my career when that ...