The purpose of this page is to provide instructors with tips for how to make their teaching effective, inspirational and fun.  It is intended to create enthusiasm as well as to provoke thought about ways to improve the craft of teaching.

"We will make every effort to train you, even after some of you have given up on yourself.  Every Cadet here, whether fat or skinny, tall or short, fast or slow, has the ability to pass this police academy."

• Whenever students are involved with issues they regard as vital concerns.
• Whenever student are involved with explanations of human differences.
• Whenever students are being helped to see major concepts, big ideas, and general principles and are not merely engaged in the pursuit of isolated facts.
• Whenever students are involved in planning what they will be doing.
• Whenever students are involved with applying ideals such as fairness, equity, or justice to their world.
• Whenever students are actively involved.
• Whenever students are directly involved in real-life experience.
• Whenever students are actively involved in heterogeneous groups.
• Whenever students are asked to think about an idea in a way that questions common sense or a widely accepted assumption, that relates new ideas to ones previously, or that applies an idea to the problem of living.
• Whenever students are involved in redoing, polishing, or perfecting their work.
• Whenever teachers involve students with the technology of information access.
• Whenever students are involved in reflecting on their own lives and how they have come to believe and feel as they do.                                                                                      - Martin Haberman