Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

A faculty vision of inclusive pedagogy informed by equity and social justice transcends bias and makes diversity functional and beneficial to all students. Start here… Adopt an asset-based approach for all students. Assume that students are capable and possess knowledge and skills. Be open and welcome student questions.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

In summary Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever. Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Some students struggle to see how numbers fit together, while others find it plain boring. As a teacher, that makes engaging students in math a real challenge. Here are creative strategies tailored for young students, middle schoolers, and high schoolers to make math more engaging and meaningful. The good news?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

And today, as a doctoral student and aspiring professor, I can see how those early disparities still show up in our college classrooms. And students from those environments bring that context with them when they walk into our lecture halls. And that gap isn’t the student’s fault. We don’t control our students’ ZIP codes.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

And today, as a doctoral student and aspiring professor, I can see how those early disparities still show up in our college classrooms. And students from those environments bring that context with them when they walk into our lecture halls. And that gap isn’t the student’s fault. We don’t control our students’ ZIP codes.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it. Janell Blunt , an associate professor of psychology at Anderson University in Indiana, uses personal mini-whiteboards with her college students in every class. It’s crickets.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

Have Online Education Systems Replaced Traditional Lectures? In online classrooms, you might have some interaction with fellow classmates and lecturers, however, it’s all through a screen and no one is there in person to push you to finish your essays or assignments. This will be further outlined below.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

But their reluctance has less to do with what’s happening in class and more to do with their identities as students. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Shift to a student-centered classroom 8.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Assigned seats in a grid pattern aren’t your only option for an engaging classroom setup anymore! Explore different classroom setup ideas to see which might work best for your classroom size and layout, your current students, and your different lessons. Flexible Seating: Best for adapting to students’ individual needs 4.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

SAN MARCOS, Texas — As a digital media course got underway on a recent Wednesday at Texas State University, a trickle of students took their seats in one of the largest lecture theaters on campus. On paper, this was a huge class, with about 220 students registered. Only around 60 students showed up.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 11, 2024

Want to know how I handle and combine assignments for my students? How I Merge and Manage Assignments for My Students: Some Examples Teaching is not all about delivering lectures to students. In addition to this, you also need to make sure all your students can access their assignments without any hassle.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Key points: When students are engaged, they come to school How video coaching inspires teacher self-reflection i I’m a first-year teacher. That said, there is hope in the battle against student absenteeism–and it lies with the teachers. It’s a major factor in chronic absenteeism among students. Tragically, it’s the kids.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

On the 10th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on student engagement. Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

Teachers get super excited about integrating technology or want details about a project, assignment, or routine I do with my own kids. Ironically, I see my students for about the same total amount of time because we are on an A/B schedule and our class meets every other day. They know they have limited time to get through x, y, and z.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

Among these is the flipped classroom model , a strategy that leverages video instruction to mitigate potential obstacles that make it challenging for students to access information presented live. However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Apps can be a valuable resource for educators who have access to mobile devices and who want to engage students with digital resources. While they’re a fun resource, teachers don’t always have time to search through apps and ensure they’re appropriate for students; this means everyone misses out on what could be a memorable learning activity.

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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). Students view the work as simply a hurdle to be crossed, and once submitted and assessed, worthy of nothing more than being discarded. What a waste! 2010; Bransford et al.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2018

After five years, three grade levels, hundreds of students, and a lot of trial and error, here are 10 takeaways from my experiences flipping my classroom. 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.

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Lecturing Learning Assignments Grades 279

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I have always found my work designing lessons–first for high school students and now my graduate students–to be mentally stimulating and cognitively challenging. Similarly, a teacher must get to know their students. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work.

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Blended Learning Teachers Learning Grades 535

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT a little more than six months ago, students have quickly figured out how to get the free AI chatbot to do their homework for them. A large number of K-12 teachers and college professors have decided to simply ban the use of ChatGPT and other new AI chatbots when completing assignments.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2016

Specifically, flipping can change the type of work students complete and the way in which class time will be used; it can modify the nature of assessment, and it can alter the way in which teachers will report student work. In short: lecture at home, homework in class. Next page: Bringing student choice to assessment.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

While it might seem like a simple transition to post slides or a recorded lecture online, teachers need to be intentional with course design to effectively mirror what students experienced in the classroom and make the transition as smooth and successful as possible. Synchronous over asynchronous.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to research , in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. Today’s teachers are looking to new methods of teaching and learning to improve student engagement and achievement, including tech-based solutions like the flipped classroom.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Classically, the transfer of information has occurred in class via lecture and practice has been assigned for homework. The value of this inversion is that students can pace their progress through a video (pausing, rewinding, rewatching). Adding to the time students already spend staring at a screen.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. I frequently find myself just as perplexed as the student I’m trying to help. Believe me, I’m guilty too.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 119

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Students in biology are going to be using it in one way, chemistry students are going to be using it in another.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

The word “weird,” was how several professors and students described their classes during the first week of this pandemic semester. I’m not going to be lecturing or doing what I would typically do in a face-to-face setting. And then we will meet to work on the high-stakes kinds of assignments that I have.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2021

Spotty internet service makes remote learning hard for many college students. And that’s not only a problem for students trying to do research using, say, advanced statistical packages that take up a lot of computer space. “To But for some students, a new or even newish laptop is a luxury they can’t afford.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

for all of her students. She’s in Tennessee—where she is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University—but some of the students she’s teaching are now taking the class from California, where it’s only 8 a.m. And a couple of students are back home in China, where it’s midnight. When Elizabeth Self starts teaching her 11 a.m.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

I’ve stood in front of a school board that accused me of designing a program aimed at skimming the best and brightest students off of the top, despite the diversity of the students enrolled. But the biggest challenge is trying to get my students to rethink what it means to be a learner and rethink what learning looks like.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. I frequently find myself just as perplexed as the student I’m trying to help. Believe me, I’m guilty too.

Assignments 111

Assignments Essay Writing Questions 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.). Each approach is best suited to different contexts.

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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. Students increasingly turn to private systems to create online groups around individual college classes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2020

So what’s an online professor to do when students just aren’t participating? I am noticing that you haven’t posted and you haven’t uploaded any assignments. Some students got back to him and said they are struggling with adjusting to online and would like an extension so they can get back on track—which he says he gladly granted.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Have you ever downloaded an online lecture from iTunes? It has a lot of resources for students, including books, videos, lectures, flashcards, and other materials. All K-12 teachers and students with Apple devices can use it, enabling educators to create custom courses and assign particular materials for learning.

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