Assignments: Make Them Effective, Engaging, and Equitable. At their best, assignments are one of the most important learning experiences for students in a course. Students grapple with course content, ...

In education, the benefits of incorporating the arts extend far beyond the canvas to include better communication, behavior and social-emotional skills. Despite these advantages, teachers of other ...

In education–and particularly with my graduate students in higher education–students occasionally focus on the individual points of an assignment rubric instead of stepping back and looking ...

Artist Nina Katchadourian takes us on her journey of sorting an old book collection. Artist Nina Katchadourian takes us on her journey of sorting an old book collection. The Art Assignment is ...

Suzanne McConnell, one of Kurt Vonnegut’s students in his “Form of Fiction” course at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, saved this assignment, explaining that Vonnegut “wrote his course assignments in the ...

Artist and designer Ben Denzer shares an assignment to make an ATYPICAL BOOK. Artist and designer Ben Denzer shares an assignment to make an ATYPICAL BOOK. He’s made books from meat, toilet paper, ...