The “student-centered” classroom may be close to a breakthrough. In learner-centered classrooms, students and professors “work equally hard.” Professors have long made assumptions about their place in ...

In a famous essay about characters in fiction, the novelist Mary McCarthy wrote, “We are the hero of our own story.” I’m often reminded of this in my work, helping faculty to improve their teaching.

For middle and high school students, self-guided independent projects are vital parts of a college-preparatory curriculum. Not only do these studies mimic higher education academic coursework, but ...

Today’s customer-centered colleges and universities are not the learner and learning-centered universities we need. In the neoliberal universe of contemporary Americans higher education, it’s no ...

Rigorous, differentiated, student-centered classrooms. For many educators, that’s the ideal. The trick is actually creating such classrooms, much less doing the work well. And that challenge has never ...

Part I : Finding out about learner-centered teaching -- Chapter 1. What is learner-centered teaching? -- The adventure begins -- What's so special about LCT? -- Learner-centered teaching : CPR for ...