I am excited to announce that we are starting a special series of blog posts for the Fall 2014 term. During the recent Graduate TA Orientation, we asked our students to pose some questions about active learning and some of their concerns about teaching. They had fantastic questions! Now, our ASU community will be posting responses to these questions, and I am sure we will all gain insights! I invite you to post additional comments below, and help us build a faculty learning community. Our first guest blogger is Michael Angilletta, PhD. He is a SoLS Professor, Senior Sustainability Scholar and the new Director of Undergraduate Programs at the School of Life Sciences in Arizona State University. What do you do when students come up with aggressive opinions that contradict well-accepted values during teaching? ("I don't believe in evolution" or "global warming is a scam") Your worst fear as a teacher of biology will eventually come to pass . A studen