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Teacher Engagement Part I: Understanging Cognitive Engagement in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

A teacher’s cognitive engagement is the degree of attention to and investment in their work (Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). Step #2: Define the Desired Results or Intended Outcomes. When I facilitate blended learning workshops, teachers will make comments like, “This is great, but it seems like a lot of work.”

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to.

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to.

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How Instructors Are Adapting to a Rise in Student Disengagement

Edsurge

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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Ensuring Equity for English Learners (ELs)

Catlin Tucker

Leveraging Blended Learning Models to Ensure Equity The teacher-led whole-group lesson design makes it challenging to ensure ELs get an equitable experience since it limits how much time teachers can spend supporting individual students.

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

Ask a Tech Teacher

Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. Issues like digital inequality and over-reliance on devices can hinder learning outcomes.

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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

Edsurge

In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. You’ve famously compared lecturing to bloodletting. This was my soundbite, but it was effective, that lectures are the pedagogical equivalent to bloodletting.

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