For many undergraduate students, exploring the complexities of physics for the first time, from wading through advanced ...

Both panelists know firsthand the anxiety students bring to methods courses. Rather than ignore it, they lean in. They employ ...

People who prefer visual learning will learn better from visualizations, right? And kids do better in school if their parents monitor, check, and assist with their homework, right? Those ideas seem ...

Fordham Institute and the RAND Corp., asked more than 1,200 K-3 teachers in the fall of 2025 about their perspectives on reading instruction, the practices they use in their classrooms, the training ...

Teaching today’s learners requires an understanding of different approaches to teaching that cater to various developmental levels. These approaches—pedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy—can be thought ...

In 2022, Rafael Nadal approached the baseline and began horizontally abducting his right arm to loft a tennis ball approximately 5 feet. He abruptly contacted the inferolateral aspect of the tennis ...

Picture this: It’s your first day as a graduate student instructor. You’re armed with a stack of syllabi, a mind full of academic theories and the unshakable feeling that you might be in way over your ...

Clarification: A previous version of this story had a different image. It has been updated for clarity. Walk into any kindergarten classroom this fall, and there’s a good chance students will be ...

Daniel D. Pratt presents five perspectives on teaching gathered from several years of research across five different countries. These perspectives are presented in both theoretical and practical forms ...

This College Teaching Development Program is open to all Purdue faculty, staff, post docs, and graduate students in West Lafayette, Indianapolis, and Purdue Polytechnic Statewide. We define teaching ...