Should educators help students understand their chosen subjects within a broader context of learning? Mark Coleman has been experimenting with this in his biology course and shares his findings so far ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The spring semester was almost over when the instructor distributed our last assignment for the “Graduate Seminar in Teaching Biology.” The class was offered by our department to equip graduate ...

After that day, the teacher never used the word “copy” quite so loosely again.

Has teaching biology been your calling and dream career that you always wanted to pursue? As a biology teacher, you can inspire your students to appreciate the beauty of the world’s many life forms, ...

When James Morris started teaching biology at Harvard in 2000, he was dismayed by the textbooks that were available. Though there were exceptions, they tended to be dull, full of facts students were ...

With an animated grin splitting across her face, Kate Schafer ’92 shows me a bright blue notebook that she started to fill in last year — its entries are filled with thoroughly annotated hand drawings ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The next day, Strode showed his students—all seniors—their aggregated results. On some questions, the students were mostly in agreement. More than 80 percent of them, for example, correctly marked ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...