Patricia Todebush is Associate Head of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. The Reacting to the Past (RTTP) pedagogy originally created at Barnard College in the late 1990s consists of a ...

EMERGE Ep. 2: Role Playing in the Classroom with Reacting to the Past Pedagogy Brief Description: In this podcast, members of the ASSETT Student Success Innovation Incubator Team and undergraduate ...

Imagine walking into a classroom where students are advocating for women's rights, staging a protest against the war in Vietnam, or negotiating a treaty to lower carbon emissions. Chances are, these ...

I read Mark C. Carnes’s “The Liminal Classroom” (The Chronicle Review, October 8) with great interest. ... As one who has taught a Reacting to the Past seminar, I can testify how enormously successful ...

Students enrolled in some history courses this semester have found their professors using a surprising teaching technique — role-playing — as a means of engaging them in the material. Three history ...