Faculty Focus

MARCH 4, 2025

While large classes emphasize broad-reaching strategies like lectures and group activities, small classes enable individualized instruction and deeper exploration of topics (Wang & Calvano, 2022). To enhance interaction, instructors can assign mixed-location breakout groups where students collaborate via Zoom on case studies.

Teaching 89

Teaching Lecturing Gamification Interdisciplinary 89

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Students may have their minds on social plans, pending assignments, personal issues, or reflections on previous classes. Allowing students to share epiphanies they had encourages them to share and can sometimes lead to interdisciplinary connectivity. Padlet is a good digital tool.

Activities 111

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 111

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2025

Students may have their minds on social plans, pending assignments, personal issues, or reflections on previous classes. Allowing students to share epiphanies they had encourages them to share and can sometimes lead to interdisciplinary connectivity. Padlet is a good digital tool.

Activities 98

Activities Interdisciplinary Active Learning Participation 98

Scholarly Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This may involve lectures, active learning activities, or group work to disseminate information and student learning. To become familiar with the process, it might be helpful to start with designing a single assignment or module. Backward design to combat curricular expansion in a large, interdisciplinary, team-taught course.

Instructors 52

Instructors Curriculum Quizzes Lecturing 52

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

We not only assign writing in order to teach our content, but students also use writing to explore connections between assigned texts, lived experiences, and other course content. Prioritize Information : Before students can write effectively, they must learn to identify and rank key ideas from their readings, lectures, or discussions.

Writing 122

Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 6, 2025

We not only assign writing in order to teach our content, but students also use writing to explore connections between assigned texts, lived experiences, and other course content. Prioritize Information : Before students can write effectively, they must learn to identify and rank key ideas from their readings, lectures, or discussions.

Writing 105

Writing Reading Assignments Disciplinary Thinking 105

EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

About 125 students and a faculty team that teaches core classes, such as English, math, science and social ­studies, are assigned exclusively to each neighborhood. “It It becomes a school within a school,” Cryer says. Students move back and forth all day in their neighborhoods to get their projects done,” Cryer says.

Learning 120

Learning Learning Spaces Elementary School Elementary School 120

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

This year, one of the topics for the 10th grade final paper was "violence"—assigned before George Floyd’s murder. He also cites a guest lecture he saw about the philosophers Thomas Hobbes’ and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s theories of social violence and control delivered by Jamaican philosopher Charles Mills.

Beliefs 148

Beliefs Learning Students Interdisciplinary 148

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

This innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator. Integrated Learning: Combining lecture and lab time allows students to apply theoretical knowledge to practical experiments, helping solidify learning and making complex concepts more understandable.

Interdisciplinary 67

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 67

Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

This innovative teaching environment blends engaged lectures with hands-on, collaborative activities, with the instructor as a facilitator. Integrated Learning: Combining lecture and lab time allows students to apply theoretical knowledge to practical experiments, helping solidify learning and making complex concepts more understandable.

Interdisciplinary 64

Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 64