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JUNE 12, 2025

With her influence, I learned to energize a room and help students believe in themselves through positivity and encouragement. Be Innovative I was lucky to be mentored by educators who challenged me to move beyond traditional teaching methods. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning.

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Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 105

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

With her influence, I learned to energize a room and help students believe in themselves through positivity and encouragement. Be Innovative I was lucky to be mentored by educators who challenged me to move beyond traditional teaching methods. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning.

Beliefs 98

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors.

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Instructors Lecturing STEM Study 201

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2022

In the bad-old days of college teaching, especially in technical subjects, professors would stand before a classroom of freshmen and say, “Look to the right, look to the left. The idea was fear of failure would motivate students to do whatever it takes to stay above water academically. One of them will not graduate.”

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Ethics Lecturing Motivation Instructors 167