Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Maybe you were curled up by the fire, reading a good book, and perhaps considering how you were going to integrate feedback, change up your courses, and add some jazz, flavor, and maybe a little bit of spice to your courses. I would like to take you on a bit of a journey – back to mid-December when we were on winter break.

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Feedback Secondary Education Teaching Philosophy Assignments 111

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. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. They could always find and read the content on their own.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

They want to read and write and think. During the semester, students read “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass,” “The Secret Life of Bees” and “They Say/I Say.” She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark The professor explains the next assignment for the course. Some worry whether they’re ready.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my confusion, I began reading for curiosity rather than exams. 1 That moment of reading was transformative. To accompany this teaching philosophy, I adopt ungrading 2 in all my courses. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. Read your (group project) and feedback.

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 101

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

EdSurge recently connected with Hershovitz to hear why he thinks it’s important to nurture philosophy in kids throughout school and college, and what advice he has for educators about how to do it. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. EdSurge: What’s an example of how kids think like philosophers?

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Failure Schools 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

And we also checked in with an administrator at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas who assigns the show in a first-year seminar she leads. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. What are the benefits of doing this over reading a philosophy text, say? Todd May: Actually it was purely luck.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Ethics Syllabus 167

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

It was fulfilling to read about how they connected to the content we learned together, the activities we engaged in, and the missions and assignments they completed. important and/or intriguing content and skills) and engaging activities and assignments. Renken, M.S.

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Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 111

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

It’s often said that teaching and learning doesn’t always take place in the classroom—some of the most important lessons are learned on the playground, in the street, on the job or somewhere else. The same is true for educators, whose teaching philosophies are often shaped by moments that happened when they weren't in front of the classroom.

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Coaching English Students Teaching Philosophy 146

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

It was fulfilling to read about how they connected to the content we learned together, the activities we engaged in, and the missions and assignments they completed. important and/or intriguing content and skills) and engaging activities and assignments. Renken, M.S.

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Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Your engagement with these topics may take the form of assigned readings and/or videos, class discussions, and/or assignments. Consider alternative readings or activities, when possible. These topics include, but are not limited to, [insert topics]. Do not use content disclosures in a tokenistic way. Prokopakis, K.

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Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 119

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Your engagement with these topics may take the form of assigned readings and/or videos, class discussions, and/or assignments. Consider alternative readings or activities, when possible. These topics include, but are not limited to, [insert topics]. Do not use content disclosures in a tokenistic way. Prokopakis, K.

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Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I used to read these Choose Your Own Adventure books when I was a kid. For anyone who has not read them, you go and you get to page 7 and it says, "now you get to make a choice, do you want to go up the mountain, or down by this tree.” Give them more choice, give them more agency, give them more opportunities.

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Teaching Textbooks Teaching Philosophy Ethics 97