Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on November 1, 2013. Teaching my students about goals has become something of a crusade. The student who was expecting me “to teach him a lot” missed the first lesson. Although I would teach him a lot, he had to be available to receive and apply that learning.

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Writing Teaching Assignments Essay 116

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

This year, students were assigned states and asked to write an eight-measure melody corresponding to their assigned states. Many of the second and third-graders I work with are very comfortable with touch screens and technology, and it’s natural for them to view and complete assignments in this format.

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Teaching Teaching Philosophy Assignments Exams 132

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. Below, we share five things that we do to reduce our grumpiness during the grumpy time to make our teaching more engaging and fulfilling (see also Engage the Sage, 2022a): 1. Teach some amazing content.

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Course Design Assignments Teaching Philosophy Instructors 142

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

How have my various experiences influenced my teaching philosophy, and which principles do I rely on to inform my interactions and collaboration with learners? I focused on creating personalized assignments as well as experiences by using a few different tools that invited learners to share their goals for the course.

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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. We should embrace this role as we teach in the age of AI.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 111

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. She took questions on how not to feel lost in the dark The professor explains the next assignment for the course. Photo by Ryan Kelly for EdSurge. It was positive.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 178

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

My Teaching Journey: Cultivating a Growth Mindset Through Ungrading For the past 11 years, I have been a professor of social studies education, working with both pre-service and in-service teachers. I have never used traditional tests in my classes because I dont believe that teaching ability can be measured through exams.

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 90

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

This ranges from our syllabi to our course structures and policies, to our assignments and assessments. Below, we share five things that we do to reduce our grumpiness during the grumpy time to make our teaching more engaging and fulfilling (see also Engage the Sage, 2022a): 1. Teach some amazing content.

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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. But as we all know, not every teaching day is as rewarding as the last. Common causes of teacher burnout Although every teaching environment is different, the most common causes of teacher burnout are similar.

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Teachers Teaching Philosophy Grades Assignments 52

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

It is part of the curriculum in many other countries around the world, and there is a small but growing movement to have philosophy taught in American schools. Another upside is that when you teach philosophy in schools, you have the opportunity to cultivate norms of good conversations and good deliberations. It's a struggle.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Failure Schools 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

NBC’s ‘The Good Place’ attempts to build a comedy around the topic of moral philosophy. But can a network sitcom accurately teach concepts like existentialism and the works of Plato and Kant? To try to get their facts straight, the show’s creators invited philosophy scholars into the writer’s room for the show. I have not.

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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.

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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 148

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.

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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. Renken also works in the Teaching and Learning Center at Kansas State University, where he collaborates with Don Saucier and Ashley Schiffer on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects. 

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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. Renken also works in the Teaching and Learning Center at Kansas State University, where he collaborates with Don Saucier and Ashley Schiffer on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects. 

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Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

College professors don’t always talk to each other about the intricacies of their teaching practices, and it often seems a mystery to scholars what goes on in other people’s courses. Bonni Stachowiak has created a forum to spread those stories and techniques with her long-running podcast, Teaching in Higher Ed.

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Teaching Textbooks Teaching Philosophy Ethics 97