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How Teachers Succeed

What are the fundamentals of pedagogic success? The essence is contained in three strategic concepts. The first is commonly referred to as “motivation.” Without it a class stagnates. After all,...

Teaching About the Existence of God

...God. These include Jainism, Theravada Buddhism, Mimamsa and Samkhya Hinduism, as well as “death of God” versions of Christianity and Reconstructionist Judaism. Here, for example, is how Rabbi Mordecai M....

How Teaching Should Matter

...York Graduate Center, and the results were dramatic. (Cahn, 2004) As the semester progressed, students began to speak more slowly and clearly, to motivate the audience, and to lead listeners...

How to be Fair in Academic Voting

Here’s a common situation. A department plans to invite six candidates to interview for one opening. At the meeting where the vote is to occur, the suggestion is made that...