Many teachers have experienced the dreaded breakout room of silence - students not interacting with one another during remote small group discussions. If you haven’t, yet, then consider yourself lucky ...

Early this year, after the pandemic had moved my classroom online, a student asked if we could try “silent meetings” in a course I was teaching. At first I assumed that, like many of us, he was just ...

As an undergraduate, I took a seminar dedicated entirely to Ulysses by James Joyce. Joyce’s modernist novel is mystifying, so question marks hung on the ends of students’ contributions. As we ...

The new question of the week is: What are the best ways to organize and lead classroom discussions? Part One featured responses from Rita Platt, Adeyemi Stembridge, PhD, Jackie Walsh, Doug Lemov, and ...

This seems to be the common rule in most classrooms. It is easily explained in a lecture setting. Indeed, everyone must be focused on what the professor is saying. A discussion would only create a ...

Veteran education columnist Maureen Downey wrote a column for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution this week about “what teens resent” in school. The answer might surprise you: disrupted learning and ...