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Teaching While Facing Gender Biases

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Jett spoke in the interview about the ways in which course evaluations contained biases and were not always helpful in informing her teaching approaches. By redirecting learners’ attention to discovery, we keep the focus on learning and less on having to prove ourselves. What bothers you about the graph?

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What It Takes For a College to Go Online

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In one focus group I attended, faculty members recommended that online courses include real-time sessions, that the school stream on-campus lectures and events to remote students, and that faculty establish a uniform and consistent online course evaluation rubric following industry best practices.

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How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

Faculty Focus

Thus, I paid attention and reflected during the action in order to construct adjustments, while doing hybrid-teaching at the same time. When blind spots and shortcomings arise, pay attention to how you reframe them in order to get back on track. When your class ends, write down the during-action reflection as soon as possible.

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The Daily Quiz

Faculty Focus

Students have learned to pay attention during these discussions because quiz questions have been known to become exam questions. On my course evaluations student regularly note that the daily quiz is one of their favorite activities.

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The Daily Quiz

Faculty Focus

Students have learned to pay attention during these discussions because quiz questions have been known to become exam questions. On my course evaluations student regularly note that the daily quiz is one of their favorite activities.

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What College Students Wish Faculty and Admins Knew About Teaching

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So, it really depends on how eager the student is to help improve the whole situation and the course specifically. I think in terms of its timing, the course evaluation coming only at the end affects whether the professor could make adjustments, and also how eager students are when it comes to participating in that progress.

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Thinking about What Happened.

Faculty Focus

When not all that many students are paying attention. Most them default to blame—the teacher, the textbook, fellow classmates, the course, the department, the school—almost anybody or anything but not themselves. When a discussion didn’t go anywhere. When a group couldn’t seem to work together. When the answer was wrong.