Carla Horwitz spends her time teaching undergraduates at Yale about child development and directing one of the nation's premiere early child care centers: the Calvin Hill Day Care Center and Kitty Lustman-Findling Kindergarten. In our conversation we talk about how these two jobs overlap, the importance of quality early education, and how college classrooms should be places for creativity and play.

Edward and Doug reflect back to identify eight habits which almost all of our guests have used to teach effectively. If you're new to the podcast, this is a great place to start since it's filled with our favorite quotes from earlier episodes.

Vida Maralani, Yale Assistant Professor of Sociology, joins us with two of her students to talk about how she teaches undergraduate seminars on social issues and graduate lectures on quantitative methods.

Larry Samuelson, Yale Professor of Economics, explains how he teaches difficult material effectively.

We talk with Yale's David Bromwich about how and why he teaches such a broad range of classes.

We talk with Yale's Donald Kagan about what makes a great lecture and his unique approach to teaching seminars.

We talk with Yale's Laurie Santos about what it's like to lecture about Sex, Evolution, and Human Nature to almost 600 undergraduates in a chapel.

We talk with Yale's Bo Hopkins about how to foster creativity among students

We talk with Jenny Frederick from the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning about Student-Centered Learning.

We talk with Jim Rolf from the Yale Math Department about flipping classes, the role of failure in the classroom and why it is that we teach.