The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this ...

The Making Critical Thinking Visible webpage is a repository of activities, assignments, and other curricular elements UW instructors have created to make critical and creative thinking more visible ...

Creative potential combines the ability to think in original ways with the motivation to do so. Creative thinking grows with ...

You’re stuck. You’re working on a project or assignment and your mind shuts down. It’s clear that ideas are not flowing as rapidly as you would like. You’re losing steam and your mental energies are ...

Entrepreneurship requires passion, determination, a certain doggedness, and the ability to innovate. Running a small or medium enterprise takes a huge equal amount of courage and a pinch of madness ...

Students will design and complete a research-based project that applies critical thinking and skepticism to analyze a pseudoscientific claim. The purpose is to distinguish science from pseudoscience ...