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Video of the Week: Making group work a win for your students

eSchool News

Having kids work together promotes cooperation, builds social-emotional skills, and gets them engaged in active learning. Group work, on the other hand, tends to come with challenges. Some students feel like they do all the work, others feel left out, motivation wanes, and assignments seem to get cobbled together.

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16 multimedia learning tools for the classroom

eSchool News

Multimedia learning tools play an important role in classrooms in a number of ways–including, but not limited to, boosting creativity, encouraging student engagement, and helping students learn to collaborate. Natural leaders may emerge during group work as part of a team presentation assignment.

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Simple Strategies for Curriculum (Re)Design for the New Instructor

Scholarly Teacher

Keywords: Curriculum Redesign, Course Design, New Teacher Background Imagine you are a new instructor whose supervisor has just asked you to take over a course from a retiring colleague in the upcoming academic year. Finally, the instructor will plan learning activities and instructions (McTighe & Wiggins, 2012).

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Reimagining Syllabus Day 

Faculty Focus

First, students quickly become accustomed to my knack for active learning techniques. Finally, I have noticed stronger class cohesion with students actively volunteering, responding to questions, and actively engaging in group work. or “If you are walking out on a stage, what background music is playing?”

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Reimagining Syllabus Day 

Faculty Focus

First, students quickly become accustomed to my knack for active learning techniques. Finally, I have noticed stronger class cohesion with students actively volunteering, responding to questions, and actively engaging in group work. or “If you are walking out on a stage, what background music is playing?”

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Classroom Learning

eSchool News

At its core, classroom learning provides a structured environment conducive to focused study and exploration. Within this setting, instructors deliver curriculum content through lectures, presentations, demonstrations, and other instructional methods tailored to meet the diverse needs of learners.

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The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl

Cult of Pedagogy

What he saw was not surprising: classroom after classroom of students who were not engaged and not actively learning. “If they’re not thinking, they’re not learning. “These practices are being enacted in every curriculum now,” Liljedahl says. ” Liljedahl explains.

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