Rhetoric and Composition professor Jule Thomas understands that the path to learning isn’t always easy, equitable, or traditional. She reflects on her experience teaching incarcerated students and reexamining her own biases. Read how you can adapt to unique teaching environments and find new ways to connect with your students.
AI as a Thinking Partner, Not a Crutch: Designing Assignments That Actually Make Students Struggle (in a Good Way)
A few months ago, I asked a room full of faculty a simple question: If AI can complete the assignment, what exactly are students learning by completing it? The room got quiet. Not because the answer was obvious, but because many of us are wrestling with the same tension.
Engaging my AP® Chemistry Students with an Atoms-Focused Approach
In her 38 years of teaching chemistry and AP® Chemistry, Laura Slocum knows exactly what her students prefer. In our latest Norton Learning Blog post, Laura shares how Chemistry: An Atoms-Focused Approach, which emphasizes visual learning and couples perfectly with modeling instruction, keeps her students engaged and curious.
3 Ways to Make the Most of Your Time This School Year
Laura Vanderkam is the author of seven time-management books, including Norton’s Big Time: A Simple Path to Time Abundance, as well as the host of two podcasts. The start of the school year can always make time feel crunched. You may be juggling new courses and new expectations alongside deadlines and a lingering sense that there’s always more you could be doing. …
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Research as Recursive Conversations: Using “They Say / I Say” in Your AP® Seminar
As a first-year AP® Seminar teacher, I was really nervous that I wasn’t going to be able to offer my students all the support they needed. But, since my students had access to “They Say / I Say,” I felt as if I had a mentor teacher with me at all times
Teaching on the Tenure Track: How to Ace Lesson Prep
Balancing planning, grading, and teaching while securing tenure isn’t easy. Kelsi G. Hobbs, assistant professor of economics at the University of Maine, shares how the right textbook resources are foundational in creating a strong course, allowing you to dedicate more time to research, service, and other projects.
Why You Should Engage Students with Primary Sources in Your ELA Classroom
Rebecca Newland is a high school librarian who spent 15 years as a high school English teacher before switching, which has been more fun than she could have imagined.
Learning to Teach on the Fly: Tips for First-Time Instructors
Adronisha Frazier teaches medical microbiology and biology lecture and lab courses at San Joaquin Delta College. She works closely with colleagues to mentor, teach, and support a diverse student population in earning credentials and transferring to 4-year institutions.
The Making of a Norton Anthology with Editor Marian Johnson
Bringing things together in one place, supporting instructors in their work while also opening up astonishing worlds of literature to all types of readers (students, instructors, and life-long learners alike): these are just some of the reasons that the Norton anthologies continue to thrive.
FIERCE DESIRES: Your Toolkit for Teaching the History of Sexuality in America
As America continues to debate sexual expression, gender identity, and bodily autonomy, prepare your students with a course grounding that debate in American historical context. Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America author Rebecca L. Davis offers a teaching companion for your classroom.