“I hope I didn't sound too much down on teaching. I enjoy it. And it is not a great deal of work right now. But it’s really not a…
Early last March I drove from the Big Ten university, where I taught for forty years, to Bedford, Indiana, where I had been asked to talk to a high school…
Several decades ago, when the writings of Michel Foucault were at the peak of their popularity in academia, my former colleague, Jim Riley, remarked insightfully that what was most…
Moving Beyond Pedagogical Triage in the Covid-19 Era In the last few months teachers around the world at all levels of education have been presented an unprecedented challenge. Facing the…
We can be as divided by invisible walls as by those made of stone. They limit our movements and deny us access to all that lies on the other…
Readers of the February 2017 edition of The History Teacher must have been surprised to see an article by Leah Shopkow with the title “How Many Sources Do I…
In the two decades of my life between kindergarten and completing course work for my Ph.D., I had dedicated teachers from whom I learned a great deal. But I…
Several years ago in a workshop in Liverpool, Gregor Novak, the founder of Just-in-Time Teaching, commented that in most courses the final exam is like an autopsy – it…
I am going to say one word to you, and that word will change the entire way that you are looking at the material we are reading for class this…
I have never been very proficient at the art of chess. The one time that I tried to remedy this lack by reading a work on the subject the…