At a recent dinner party, surrounded by lawyers, engineers, and data scientists, I heard myself say that “I’m just a teacher.” I said it with embarrassment, knowing I was in a room full of ...

Subject: Teaching: Recapturing the fun of teaching. This week, I: Describe a faculty-development program focused on joy. ... Professors in the sessions, she added, have seemed relaxed and happy.

One of my students, Lenny, wanted to know why I bothered, why I taught GED students instead of working in a “regular” school. He said I should teach younger, elementary-school-age students ...

To be happy, you have to prepare kids for careers and citizenship. I don’t know how many people want to do that. You’re 79. How long into your career were you when you got happy? It was a process.

In Education Lab's continuing 'Why I Teach,' feature, we talk to Nathan Sun-Kleinberger, a language arts teacher at Kentridge High in the Kent School District.

Like many other educators, Sandra Coyer didn’t start off wanting to be a teacher. Coyer, who is just finishing her 16th year in the classroom and her 14th year at Puyallup High School, studied ...

Lessons in life: Why I'm teaching happiness Anthony Seldon, the headmaster of Wellington College and renowned historian and author, is planning to instruct his pupils on how to be happy.

That’s why I teach patients to have fun. Play and productivity can complement each other, leisure is not necessarily laziness. Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) ...

On June 25, the NPEF premiered “Why I Teach” at the Lipscomb Spark Center to a room full of educators and public school advocates. Amid several panel discussions about the industry from ...