Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Its great for in-class use and also works well as a homework assignment. Make Math Interactive with Technology Instead of relying solely on lectures, use technology to help students visualize concepts: Desmos for interactive graphing. It offers interactive activities and visual representations to keep students engaged.

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Math Textbooks Quizzes Participation 88

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question. that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 97

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Not because they lacked courage, but because they didnt feel invited to speak.

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Disabilities Course Design Students Lecturing 53

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

You can also ask survey questions like “What should I know about you before the school year starts?” That placement makes it easy for them to avoid answering questions, sleep in class, or chat with friends without you noticing. Then you can get to know them yourself!

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High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Assigned seats in a grid pattern aren’t your only option for an engaging classroom setup anymore! Pros: This classroom desk configuration is great for lecture-based teaching or if you do a lot of board work because it ensures that all students can easily see the teacher and the board at the front of the classroom.

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Classroom Management Discussions Grades Lecturing 98

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework.

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Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 471

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?” ” Challenges with Traditional Live Instruction Traditionally, educators disseminate information in real-time, relying on lectures or mini-lessons. Some teachers do not assign homework.

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Lecturing Knowledge Assignments Writing 433

eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Rather than watch a lecture in class and complete homework at home, students would watch a video lecture at home and do the “homework” in class. Question everything. When I committed to flipping, I realized that it would only work if I were prepared to question everything. Flipping the grading.

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Lecturing Learning Assignments Grades 279

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Instead, teachers must strive to design student-centered learning experiences that challenge the students to think, discuss, problem-solve, collaborate, question, create, and reflect. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. What did they do well?

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Blended Learning Teachers Learning Grades 535

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Classically, the transfer of information has occurred in class via lecture and practice has been assigned for homework. Begin with a collaborative offline activity designed to pique student interest or get them generating questions about a topic. First, teachers need to create context. Second, flip and engage.

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Multiple Choice Questions Lecturing Blended Learning Evaluation 420

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

We might imagine a video avatar answering campus questions in the shape of a college mascot or historical figure." Bryan Alexander We might imagine a video avatar answering campus questions in the shape of a college mascot or historical figure.

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Assignments Teaching Learning Lecturing 165

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Moving from essential to “renewable” assignments means that the students see the tasks as sufficiently meaningful to be kept and even passed on to others. What a waste!

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Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. Maybe the student skipped class or doesn’t have all the material handed out with the assignment. They’re used to teachers asking questions; generally when teachers ask questions they want students to provide answers.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 119

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. For instance, on a recent assignment, some of the homework that came in didn’t sound like typical student work he was used to.

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Instructors Assignments Writing History 148

eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

The “Bored Board” can help give students options and eliminate the question, “ I’m done, now what? Students can then choose which activities to complete in order to meet the assigned requirements. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting!

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Critical Thinking Middle School Middle School Lecturing 317

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Bored Board can help give students options and eliminate the question, I’m done, now what? Students can then choose which activities to complete in order to meet the assigned requirements. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting!

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Students Critical Thinking Lecturing Culture 291

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. Maybe the student skipped class or doesn’t have all the material handed out with the assignment. They’re used to teachers asking questions; generally when teachers ask questions they want students to provide answers.

Assignments 111

Assignments Essay Writing Questions 111

eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

STEM is incredibly important, specifically for skills like critical thinking and problem solving,” said Dr. Erika Neuman, CEO of iSTEMmentors and a lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio, during an ISTELive 24 session. Ask a question 2. Design, such as putting a pencil to paper or using a program 4.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking Lecturing 308

eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

For teachers who want to tackle media and cultural studies, the Critical Media Project offers a wide selection of ready-to-use and school-appropriate media clips and discussion questions, filtered by topic (age, race and ethnicity, religion, gender, LGBTQ, ability).

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Mobile Devices Lecturing Social Studies Students 279

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

The course uses Canvas to manage the online, asynchronous portion of learning – this includes recorded lectures by ASU faculty, along with weekly assignments and quizzes. Conducted on Zoom, students from across schools join to review the current learning module, complete homework and ask questions.

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Quizzes Lecturing High School High School 246

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!”

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. Each week, I’d assign several lectures I’d recorded earlier on video. None of our class time was given to me delivering lectures.

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Teaching Lecturing Blended Courses Instructors 218

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Option 1: Paper-based teaching Point a camera at a piece of paper, write on it and lecture. And here’s what your student will see: Option 2: Whiteboard or easel teaching Point a camera at yourself while lecturing in front of a whiteboard or easel+paper pad. Schedule lectures at the assigned time slot for the class 3.

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Teaching Lecturing Instructors Disabilities 210

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching.

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Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

In his Letters to a Young Poet , Rainer Maria Rilke urged the younger correspondent to learn to love questions, even those that were unanswered. This admonition has stuck with me for several decades, especially in times when I am seeking answers to seemingly tough questions. The most important questions: Who are you?

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Questions Beliefs Lecturing Knowledge 105

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. I could not believe my eyes because this woman looked exactly like a fifth grader from my first teaching assignment. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 322

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 12, 2023

In his Letters to a Young Poet , Rainer Maria Rilke urged the younger correspondent to learn to love questions, even those that were unanswered. This admonition has stuck with me for several decades, especially in times when I am seeking answers to seemingly tough questions. The most important questions: Who are you?

Questions 98

Questions Beliefs Lecturing Knowledge 98

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Since this is the season for proclaiming passions, we asked six educators a simple question: “What do you love about teaching?” I love being an educator because I have been able to not only watch students in my district learn, but also help my teachers improve their skills and become facilitators—not lecturers. Here’s what they said.

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Lecturing Assignments Communication Skills 197

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These days students can have tools like Google’s NotebookLM turn their lecture notes into a podcast , where sunny-sounding AI bots banter and riff on key points. Suddenly, new consumer AI tools have hit the market that can take any piece of text, audio or video and provide that same kind of simplified summary.

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Study Lecturing Instructors Students 214

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 337

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

He encouraged every student to raise a hand every time he asked a question, and if someone who was called on didn’t actually know the answer, they were encouraged to recommend someone else in class who might. If you assign students a term paper and they have to manage that all the way to completion, you're teaching them work skills.

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Activities Lecturing Exams Active Learning 216

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The most controversial new tech tool for colleges since the start of the pandemic is automated proctoring, which aims to detect cheating on online exams by using algorithms that watch students via their webcam and look for suspicious patterns of behavior—often sending clips of questionable moments to professors for later review.

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Exams Lecturing Instructors Academic Integrity 188

eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In college, assignments were purposeful, designed to deepen my understanding of the material rather than simply reinforce rote memorization. These assignments provided valuable opportunities to fail, seek help, and ultimately grow from the experience. These assignments werent just practice. The struggle was the entire point.

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Failure Assignments Education Secondary Education 175

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. I loved it,” she says, noting that the students got to know each other by asking questions like what they planned to do next year.

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Exams Instructors Students Lecturing 204

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. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators.

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 275