Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements. I always begin my syllabus with an inclusive and inspirational quote. While I believed I was a capable adjunct professor, this experience has shown me how much I had yet to learn about the art of teaching.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Some traditional professors have opposed the model as too great a departure from the classic liberal arts college. Students gain access to their courses — syllabus, main project, required engagements, discussion forum and other materials — a week prior to the start of class. To give students wide choice, U.S.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements. I always begin my syllabus with an inclusive and inspirational quote. While I believed I was a capable adjunct professor, this experience has shown me how much I had yet to learn about the art of teaching.

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MARCH 21, 2019

I have created what I’m calling my “prep syllabus” and hope to set a solid foundation for myself. I would love to get your feedback on what should be in my "prep syllabus” and how to make that transition. There are also exercises to practice the art of the academic citation. Thanks so much!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It’s much easier to use text with a few pictures tossed in and leave the artistry for the art teacher. These are great for sharing discrete knowledge, publishing a digital portfolio of projects, visually presenting a syllabus or collage of artwork, and showing how to solve a problem. Click to view slideshow.

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JULY 30, 2018

Redesigning the Syllabus to Reflect the Learning Journey - Mark Engstrom, head of middle and upper school at Allen Academy in Bryan, Texas, shares an encouraging story about rethinking curriculum to encourage “students to make decisions and take a more active role as learners.”. Where’s the Humanity?

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JULY 25, 2016

They’re essentially submitting a digital portfolio anytime before April 30, like submitting an art portfolio for AP Studio Art,” Packer adds. “As So far, 1500 teachers have been trained on creating a Computer Science Principles syllabus for the fall of 2016. Will Colleges Accept AP Computer Science Principles for Credit?

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JANUARY 9, 2019

When I left the classroom in 2017 for a job as an events curator for a community arts organization, it was the middle of spring semester during my seventh year as a teacher. Topics of race, nationality, class, gender and sexual orientation were all folded into my syllabus.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Gabrielle Kelly, a filmmaker, author, and an associate arts professor at New York University in Singapore, plans to teach a VR screenwriting course next semester. I am gathering information together before I create a syllabus. Her preparation process is simply to learn as she creates the course.

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MARCH 6, 2019

(Photos: Sydney Johnson) Joelle Thomas, a master’s student in the reading class, teaches a course at the university, called “Values in American Life,” which looks at different types of art forms across American history. When the syllabus says no laptops unless you have a disability, it automatically sort of outs those students,” he said.

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JULY 7, 2022

Year by year, these adults have gathered threads of wisdom, which the university now invites them to weave into the great tapestry of the liberal arts. The syllabus is structured to inspire confidence and courage. She was preparing to audition for a performing arts scholarship. Todd has focused his own research on art history.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Alder College, in a nutshell, would be a two-year liberal arts commuter college and students would graduate with an associate’s degree. I was literally handed a syllabus the week before I taught, and no one in five years ever saw me teach a class. What's the elevator pitch for the model? The recruitment would be local.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

For instance, at the bare minimum, we expect our students to read our course syllabus, listen to our lectures, engage with us and their peers, and complete and submit all assignments on time. She teaches aspiring educators pursuing their Associates of Arts in Teaching (AAT) degree. We expect much from our students each semester.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2024

For instance, at the bare minimum, we expect our students to read our course syllabus, listen to our lectures, engage with us and their peers, and complete and submit all assignments on time. She teaches aspiring educators pursuing their Associates of Arts in Teaching (AAT) degree. We expect much from our students each semester.

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Instructors Disabilities Culture Syllabus 105

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Encourage your students to introduce themselves via written text, video, audio recording, or art; let them choose whichever media is most comfortable for them. In addition to having these services available in your syllabus and throughout your course, a warm handoff to connect students with these services will likely build trust.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

We've figured out over the last 500 years how to teach art. We realized that, yes, you want to teach some theory for artists, but essentially art is a set of apprenticeships and hands-on practice. Entrepreneurs, and I mean founders, are as close to artists as any other profession, and that's a big idea for an educator.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

It’s much easier to use text with a few pictures tossed in and leave the artistry for the art teacher. These are great for sharing discrete knowledge, publishing a digital portfolio of projects, visually presenting a syllabus or collage of artwork, and showing how to solve a problem. Click to view slideshow. Venn Diagrams.

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Knowledge Syllabus History Achievement 122

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Encourage your students to introduce themselves via written text, video, audio recording, or art; let them choose whichever media is most comfortable for them. In addition to having these services available in your syllabus and throughout your course, a warm handoff to connect students with these services will likely build trust.

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Instructors Students Minute Papers Course Design 105

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AUGUST 8, 2017

I just spend a little bit of space in the syllabus [explaining the format], maybe a paragraph and explain that this is how we’re going to do the class. If students graduate from college and they can’t learn things on their own, then that college education was totally useless. It was a waste. For those people this is old news.

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AUGUST 17, 2016

We came from community colleges, a liberal arts college, large public universities and whatever Minerva is. We built our own syllabus, decided what topics interested us and recruited experts to talk to us about those topics. Adaptive technologies aren’t ideal, but they’re a stepping stone.”.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2023

Despite these harrowing times, I often looked to the arts—TV, movies, and videos—for collective understanding and joy in difficult times. To do this, review your late assignment plan, your syllabus, and other policies for ways to increase your compassion and trust in students. One of those respites was a new show called Ted Lasso.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

Including a culminating presentation on each of the banned books in the syllabus can help communicate the importance of these book clubs while continuing to strengthen student communication, presentation skills, and cooperative skills. All 70 students chose a different focus that they felt a strong, personal connection to.

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Critical Thinking Interdisciplinary History Syllabus 79

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OCTOBER 24, 2019

Because OpenStax doesn’t pay big bucks for illustrations, some faculty don’t think the art is good enough to compete with that in commercial textbooks, Palmiotto says. Because most U.S. professors enjoy academic freedom to select their own course materials, it can take a lot of personal persuasion to convince each to try teaching a new text.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

I think the arts and humanities gives us a site for doing all of those things.” So in May 2020, she posted an offer to teach a free, six-week seminar about art and illness for a few dozen people, drawing on works by Vincent van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, Ralph Ellison and Emily Dickinson, among others. So Wellmon threw out his syllabus.

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APRIL 24, 2018

Many who were in the room work at small liberal arts colleges that are grappling with similar questions around whether or not to pursue online learning—and, if so, how to get campus buy-in. We don’t have control of the quality, and we don't’ know the syllabus [for external online courses],” she said. “If Could this tarnish our brand?”

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Attach your class syllabus (if ready) Encourage students to reach out to you if they have any questions and identify the best method for them to do this—email, phone, Learning Management System, etc. The syllabus is great way to show your positive and encouraging bedside manner to the class.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Attach your class syllabus (if ready) Encourage students to reach out to you if they have any questions and identify the best method for them to do this—email, phone, Learning Management System, etc. The syllabus is great way to show your positive and encouraging bedside manner to the class.

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Syllabus Teachers Discussions Questions 98

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FEBRUARY 9, 2021

was surprised to find out that the professor listed on his syllabus and featured in his video lectures passed away in 2019. He has spent a long time thinking about and researching the art and science of teaching as author of the book, “How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching.”

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

As opposed to, say, teaching students how to live “ the good life ,” or how to discern meaning through art and literature , or how to critique the very system that demands human productivity in exchange for pay in the first place. Work preparation doesn’t have to be the enemy of liberal arts studies, though.

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Skills Intelligence Syllabus Language 191

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JANUARY 1, 2018

How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year How do you win Faculty Member of the Year 13 times in a row? In a Q&A, Boyer discusses his flipped syllabus, integrating technology into course design, and why an easy A requires a lot of hard work.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The novel is set at a fictional liberal arts college in the midwest, Payne University, where the English department is falling apart, both literally and in spirit. The joke is like, I can't get them to read the syllabus. I've never met one of them. How could I possibly get them to read Marx or something like that?

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. Boyer uses a “flipped syllabus” in which students' final grades are based on the points they've earned—not lost—throughout the semester. Does a flipped syllabus lead to a lot of A’s?

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JANUARY 24, 2025

Improving class discussions doesnt have to mean completely overhauling a syllabus, though, Gannon says. We're all experiencing the weight of the world in different ways that make everything feel harder. Many instructors incorporate small changes into classes that help students feel more comfortable.

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