Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

They may also feel underprepared for reading focused non-fiction, informational texts that require more attention than a casual fiction novel. The activities provide multiple entry points that allow students to utilize the tool right away. There are only two rules for focused reflection time. No talking (to me or each other).

Instructors 93

Instructors Assignments Participation Students 93

Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

When the Grading Stack Becomes Too Much As the classroom quiets and the last student heads out the door, you finally take a breathonly to be met with the overwhelming sight of papers piled high, waiting for your attention. Heres the thing: the goal of practice is learning, not performance. What Is Self-Checking Student Work?

Students 52

Students Peer Review Math Assignments 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Build up foundational knowledge Many students enter high school with gaps in their instruction, making many lessons and activities feel impossibly difficult. Find new ways to assess learning Reluctant learners often suffer from test anxiety , especially by the time they reach high school.

High School 52

High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

By encouraging participation, collaboration, and critical thinking during classroom learning, active learning strategies for students promote student-centered learning environments that enhance academic outcomes and cultivate lifelong learning skills. What are the 6 learning strategies for students?

Active Learning 137

Active Learning Activities Critical Thinking Quizzes 137

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Although a wealth of research suggests that active learning increases student engagement and improves academic outcomes, many college campuses struggle to get faculty to shift away from traditional, sage-on-a-stage style teaching practices. One of IU’s early redesign efforts saw it transform an old indoor swimming pool.

Active Learning 167

Active Learning Activities Instructors Learning Spaces 167

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

However, encouraging students to read in and out of class is challenging as small screens command much of their time and attention. This was when I realized a choice board format could provide students with the agency to choose an activity that would work for them.

Culture 500

Culture Reading Assignments Blended Learning 500

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

According to Merriam-Webster, engagement is defined as the act of engaging, which is to draw favorable attention or interest. For our purposes, we are going to say that student engagement is the ability for a teacher to draw the attention or interest of students for the sake of learning. So how do you do that?

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Student Engagement Teachers Students Attention 294

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Active learning Lectures and memorization are taking a back seat to active learning. Classroom technology such as tablets, virtual reality (VR), and interactive whiteboards make learning more engaging. Tablets and interactive smartboards also encourage active learning through games, competitions, and role playing.

Learning Styles 314

Learning Styles Participation Attention Hybrid Learning 314

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

That’s when it hit medespite years of teaching experience, I’m still searching for ways to spark the same level of engagement whether I’m interacting with students face-to-face or through carefully designed asynchronous activities. For my online students, I’ve adapted this activity using collaborative digital tools.

Active Learning 84

Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers 84

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are active study strategies? These strategies empower students to take an active role in their learning, enhancing comprehension, critical thinking, and academic success. What are active study strategies? These strategies empower students to take ownership of their learning and engage actively with the material.

Study 130

Study Activities Critical Thinking Active Learning 130

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Pasadena high school realizes benefits of active learning with standing desks. As educators turn their attention to how physical learning environments can influence student learning, more companies are responding to the demand for flexible and innovative classroom furniture. Ergotron, Inc.

Student Engagement 256

Student Engagement Schools Attention Students 256

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

For any task that feels impossible, adding pieces of social engagement and active learning can be a significant variable toward success. The variety of media will likely hold attention and engagement more than any text string of characters could. Easy way to grab your students attention during live seminars 3. Graham, C.

Online Learning 96

Online Learning Activities Multidisciplinary Teaching 96

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2025

For any task that feels impossible, adding pieces of social engagement and active learning can be a significant variable toward success. The variety of media will likely hold attention and engagement more than any text string of characters could. Easy way to grab your students attention during live seminars 3. Graham, C.

Online Learning 83

Online Learning Activities Multidisciplinary Teaching 83

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

Do you know that when teachers fail to hook students’ attention on that first day, engagement remains a struggle for the rest of the semester (Roberto, 2021)? I consistently wanted to integrate community building activities for the students to participate in and feel safe and comfortable.

Student Engagement 116

Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

As learners and teaching technology continue to evolve, faculty are recognizing the importance of teaching for active learning. During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et.

Lecturing 122

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

Do you know that when teachers fail to hook students’ attention on that first day, engagement remains a struggle for the rest of the semester (Roberto, 2021)? I consistently wanted to integrate community building activities for the students to participate in and feel safe and comfortable.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

That’s why this article from EdSurge caught my attention: Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research A new meta-analysis looked at the effectiveness of flipped learning, a model that asks students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning.

Teaching Methods 158

Teaching Methods Lecturing Middle School Middle School 158

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2024

This encoding involves attention and perception, allowing the brain to filter and focus on relevant information. It requires that students access their prior knowledge and think deeply about the new concepts, processes, and skills they are learning.

Knowledge 195

Knowledge Participation Discussions Writing 195

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

From increased anxiety and depression related to unhealthy usage of social media , to our students’ decreased attention spans , it’s time to take a “less is more” approach. But the reality is that this type of screen time isn’t as active as it could be. That may seem counterintuitive.

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Critical Thinking 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

It’s that in some cases attention gets really focused on a set of practices that are untested and can distract from the discussion that we have about teaching. One of the things that is apparent as you start to read about the lecture-versus-active learning debates is that everyone is defining those terms in very different ways.

Art 167

Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

But it was just one student, and most seemed to be paying attention. And I was like, ‘But I've been here the whole time, and I've actively paid attention and done it.’ Active Learning Strategies I still had one more class to go on my visit. I'm gonna have to pay a bit more attention to structure,” he told me. “We

Instructors 213

Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 213

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

After a few of the district’s schools participated in a pilot program with the digital reading platform Actively Learn, Stanley got a look at teacher surveys and other program details. “I How do we prepare students to do that more actively? The Actively Learn platform provides opportunity for both approaches.

Reading 149

Reading Teachers Learning English 149

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Beyond straight academics, Reconstruction classes often feature “brain breaks” and “body breaks,” Etienne says, since young children need frequent movement and typically have shorter attention spans. We have designed apps that will give kids a different type of learning experience—play-based and interactive.

Math 218

Math Reading Quizzes Activities 218

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

These brief moments set the stage for active learning, focus, trust, and shaping the atmosphere of the entire session. These crucial minutes set the tone, influencing how students perceive the class, their peers, and their role within the learning environment. Consider the First Five Minutes from the students perspective.

Activities 111

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2020

With any interactive or active form of learning, so much of how a class goes depends on the students. In the book What the Best College Teachers Do , Ken Bain describes how sustaining students’ attention helps to facilitate learning. In an hour-long class, I seek a way to gain the students’ attention in the beginning.

Lecturing 180

Lecturing Attention Questions Study 180

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

As learners and teaching technology continue to evolve, faculty are recognizing the importance of teaching for active learning. During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. Listen to the full discussion, including examples of active learning methods shown to work and how Wieman thinks the pandemic has impacted teaching on the EdSurge Podcast.

Teaching 202

Teaching Lecturing Evaluation Teaching Evaluations 202

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

July 28, 2022) — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—today announced a host of new enhancements to its award-winning K-12 platform. Among the latest enhancements made to the Discovery Education K-12 learning platform for back-to-school are: .

Quizzes 165

Quizzes Education Learning Assignments 165

Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. When students are actively engaged, they have a tendency to perform better and retain information more efficiently.

Instructors 116

Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

These brief moments set the stage for active learning, focus, trust, and shaping the atmosphere of the entire session. These crucial minutes set the tone, influencing how students perceive the class, their peers, and their role within the learning environment. Consider the First Five Minutes from the students perspective.

Activities 98

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 98

Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The online university advertises its video-based online courses as active-learning seminars, so these class sizes are modeled after their counterparts at many traditional face-to-face colleges. We can’t allow for any would-be critics to be dismissive” because of a belief that students aren’t receiving attention from professors.

Lecturing 160

Lecturing Attention Beliefs Participation 160

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

An overflowing supply of books, websites, newsletters, podcasts, and videos offer tips, tricks, and strategies to help entrepreneurs manage their time, attention, and priorities. Save activities that you inherently enjoy for less productive times as you are more likely to persist at something you like. Follow the Pareto (80/20) rule.

Instructors 106

Instructors Activities Motivation Attention 106

Faculty Focus

MAY 14, 2023

The effectiveness of online learning heavily depends on the level of interaction between instructors and students within virtual classrooms. When students are actively engaged, they have a tendency to perform better and retain information more efficiently.

Instructors 98

Instructors Quizzes Students Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

Student Engagement 91

Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 91

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

Dear Bonni, You have shared often about active learning strategies and the impact they have on student learning. One of her big lessons is to invite her students to become active participants—in one example she invites them to play the part of a chili pepper population in a simulation designed to teach evolutionary processes.

Learning 162

Learning Students Assignments Participation 162

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Some educators worry that it will keep students from paying attention. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

Lecturing 216

Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

An overflowing supply of books, websites, newsletters, podcasts, and videos offer tips, tricks, and strategies to help entrepreneurs manage their time, attention, and priorities. Save activities that you inherently enjoy for less productive times as you are more likely to persist at something you like. Follow the Pareto (80/20) rule.

Instructors 94

Instructors Activities Motivation Attention 94