Assignments Beliefs Syllabus 
eSchool News
OCTOBER 25, 2024
I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. Research has shown that young children’s brains are primed for this kind of hands-on, exploratory learning.
Edsurge
MARCH 2, 2023
One of my colleagues at New York University disagreed, cautioning even decades ago, that the belief was “pretty naive.” Classes don’t start and end according to an academic calendar, but begin when a student clicks “start course” and gets assigned a faculty member. It turns out he was right.
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Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 15, 2023
This observation led my colleagues and me to reflect on the importance of maximizing the LMS’s potential (a belief that we held prior to the pandemic). What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features?
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 21, 2024
Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. syllabus) to identify any logistical rigor that may distract students from what is most important about the learning process and outcomes for the course (Supiano, 2022).
Faculty Focus
OCTOBER 15, 2023
This observation led my colleagues and me to reflect on the importance of maximizing the LMS’s potential (a belief that we held prior to the pandemic). What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features?
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 18, 2024
I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Encourage student participation. Use formative assessment.
Faculty Focus
JANUARY 21, 2025
Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).
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