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Teaching is Both Art and Science. How to Work Toward Improving Your Instructional Practice

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There’s always something new I discover to help me better live out my beliefs about teaching. Here’s what I aim to do with this new EdSurge advice column: Recognize that teaching is both an art and a science. Provide guidance from my experience as a teacher and faculty developer and reach out to others when my expertise is lacking.

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How ‘Dialogue’ Can Create Empathy in a Divided Classroom

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We’ll hear from Kelly Maxwell, assistant dean for undergraduate education in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan, which offers semester-long courses called “intergroup dialogues ” on subjects that tend to provoke strong feelings, including class, sexual orientation and racial identity.

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Is Classroom Discussion a Dying Art?

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Research and news coverage in recent years suggest that students dont participate in class conversations for fear of being canceled or outed for their political beliefs. So, how can students develop the capacity and the resilience to engage with them and share their viewpoints so that people understand where theyre coming from?