Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. As a teacher or a student, you may remember a holiday-week screening of E.T. Introductory Paratext Let’s consider what might ease students into video-based learning.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” Unfortunately, our current use of teaching philosophy statements doesn’t usually contain that expectation. taking a course intended to prepare them to teach.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Learning 97

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Students learn to think beyond the parameters of passing an exam. Throughout these years, I have learned that integrating technology can be a great way to enhance music and cross-curricular activities because it is an amazing tool, especially when it comes to music creation and music composition for younger students.

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Teaching Teaching Philosophy Assignments Exams 132

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

It is usually about two-thirds to three-quarters of the way through the semester when we (and our students) start to feel a little grumpier. This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. We may feel demoralized when our students who attend via Zoom have their videos off.

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Course Design Assignments Teaching Philosophy Instructors 142

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

I really wanted to be able to engage in a conversation with my students rather than just provide them with feedback and move on to the next thing. How have my various experiences influenced my teaching philosophy, and which principles do I rely on to inform my interactions and collaboration with learners?

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Feedback Secondary Education Teaching Philosophy Assignments 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

My Learning Experience: From a Model Student to Getting Lost I grew up in China in the 1980s as the only child of factory workers. This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. To accompany this teaching philosophy, I adopt ungrading 2 in all my courses.

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 90

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

It is usually about two-thirds to three-quarters of the way through the semester when we (and our students) start to feel a little grumpier. This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. We may feel demoralized when our students who attend via Zoom have their videos off.

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Course Design Assignments Teaching Philosophy Instructors 98

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 14, 2025

On the best days, teaching is one of the most fulfilling careers you can find. You get to inspire students, collaborate with other professionals, and impact the future of your community every day. But as we all know, not every teaching day is as rewarding as the last. Anything different is the goal!

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Teachers Teaching Philosophy Grades Assignments 52

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

Another upside is that when you teach philosophy in schools, you have the opportunity to cultivate norms of good conversations and good deliberations. So you teach people that we're going to take turns — we're gonna listen to each other. Is that something you see in the college students you teach? It's a struggle.

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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. This is a course for students starting off their university experience, so you might think they’d have more academic material. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge podcast.

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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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

With classes about to begin for a new semester at colleges and universities across the world, instructors and students are preparing for the common experience of the first day of class. As instructors, we should prepare to rock the first day of class every semester as we introduce ourselves and our content to a new cohort of students.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

With classes about to begin for a new semester at colleges and universities across the world, instructors and students are preparing for the common experience of the first day of class. As instructors, we should prepare to rock the first day of class every semester as we introduce ourselves and our content to a new cohort of students.

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Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

We want students to have positive experiences in our courses. The college classroom is a unique space where students are empowered to think critically about the world around them. To provide this support to your students, you may want to consider using content disclosures in your classes. What is a content disclosure?

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Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 119

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

We want students to have positive experiences in our courses. The college classroom is a unique space where students are empowered to think critically about the world around them. To provide this support to your students, you may want to consider using content disclosures in your classes. What is a content disclosure?

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Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

So in terms of instead of assigning a paper, is there another way that a student can demonstrate their learning of whatever objective that you have, that isn't a traditional research paper. But it seems even harder these days to know how to be a guide for students through all the digital material out there.

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