Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Teaching is regarded as a noble profession. The amalgamation of all these traits is what makes our teaching interesting. It is a Sisyphean struggle for teachers to hold students’ attention; thus, teachers should devise various tactics to attract and sustain the attention of students until the very end of class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

There’s a news story in higher ed that’s not getting enough attention. In the new agreement, part-time faculty who teach two years or more are now entitled to a year’s appointment. Some are professionals who work full-time in industry, and who teach in fulfilling side hustles, as I did several years ago at The New School.

Attention 206

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

lecture, discussion, written responses), there are myriad barriers that may make it hard for students to access information and share their learning effectively. What might make it hard for a student to process information presented verbally in a lecture or mini-lesson? Taking time to identify barriers in our design work is critical.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

Student engagement is “ the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught.” I realize this goes far beyond simply shifting away from a lecture model. It means really rethinking our entire approach to teaching.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

The pandemic brought even more attention to this issue. Based on conversations we had with teachers, ViewSonic developed a solution to address their concerns when teaching online. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE. And, with UNIVERSE as a solution, you can bring in an instructor or lecturer from a different country.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I 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. Wieman has led efforts to improve science teaching.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Teaching is regarded as a noble profession. The amalgamation of all these traits is what makes our teaching interesting. It is a Sisyphean struggle for teachers to hold students’ attention; thus, teachers should devise various tactics to attract and sustain the attention of students until the very end of class.

Attention 88

Attention Teaching Instructors Minute Papers 88

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Eyler certainly spends a lot of time thinking about teaching, since his day job is now the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University. By offering a guided tour through a variety of theories about human learning, he may just cause you to rethink what teaching even is. Eyler: That is the perennial question.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A teacher’s cognitive engagement is the degree of attention to and investment in their work (Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. What causes teachers to invest their mental energy and time resources in a task?

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Part of their concern is that incorporating these new services means they have to throw away the tried-and-true teaching techniques that they’ve mastered and love to use. Improving teaching and learning practices with technology is not about replacing traditional teaching. Innovative teaching is not about changing everything.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

” Challenges with Traditional Live Instruction Traditionally, educators disseminate information in real-time, relying on lectures or mini-lessons. Reciprocal Teaching : Students are divided into groups and take turns teaching each other the concepts they’ve learned from the video.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I always imagined that as my experience with teaching grew, I would be able to better motivate students and help focus my students. 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. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

Attention 122

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. The face is a massive draw—it’s a magnet for attention,” Stull says.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. Brain-based learning is an educational framework that informs teaching methods by leveraging scientific knowledge about how the brain learns and develops. Lecture is a common passive learning practice. References: Caine, R.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

He’s Robert Talbert, a math professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, and he’s someone who spent a lot of time thinking about how to improve college teaching. The conversation gets at how much can be automated about teaching, and what is it, exactly, about having a live instructor that matters? They're no longer a joke.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But TikTok, and social media more broadly, continues to capture curiosity and attention, and it’s not all just dance videos–Indiana science teacher @ChemteacherPhil commands an audience of more than 3 million followers on the app. it’s using a viral Rick Ross video as a teaching moment about camels. Is there a lesson in that?

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

For some of the colleges and universities offering the courses, and the professors making them, this has provided a new form of support to try other innovations in teaching—online and on campus. Coding And Self-Help Courses Dominate Most of the top MOOCs (13 of the 20 courses) involve teaching computer science or some kind of coding.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But Lang admits that holding students’ attention is now harder than it’s been in the past, and he offers some practical suggestions on how to respond. You may have seen Lang’s writings about teaching before. It almost makes it sound like you were lurking in classrooms, watching if students are paying attention.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

His latest book, AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the New World Order , is almost two books in one: It tells the story of the development of artificial intelligence and why we should pay attention to this work. But the lecturing should be done by the masters. One person lecturing to a crowd of 1,000? In the past 2.5

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This five step to-do list can help educators engage in artificial intelligence and begin using it to positively impact both teaching and learning. Educators are the experts in teaching and learning, and they need to be at the center of conversations about how artificial intelligence will be used in education. Teach students about it.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

At the same time, students say play makes them want to learn more (43 percent), helps them remember what they learn (42 percent), and helps them pay attention (40 percent). At the same time, 45 percent of teachers say ready-to-use or downloadable lesson plans would persuade them to incorporate more play.

Learning 305

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting!

Students 288

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I always imagined that as my experience with teaching grew, I would be able to better motivate students and help focus my students. 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. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

Attention 110

Attention Students Quizzes Feedback 110

eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

Key points: A love of learning can lead to a lifetime of learning How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum Here’s how schools can better support neurodiverse students For more news on instruction, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Curiosity is a fountain of opportunity for all educators.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to research , in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. Today’s teachers are looking to new methods of teaching and learning to improve student engagement and achievement, including tech-based solutions like the flipped classroom.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Key points: Today’s students deserve modern tech tools that suit their learning styles and tendencies 5 of the biggest education trends in 2024 65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024 For more news on edtech trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page It’s 2024!

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

David Peña-Guzman starts off his Friday class at San Francisco State University like any other professor might: students file in and pull out their note-taking materials, and he opens his laptop to begin lecture. For most of the course, there’s no lecture happening at all. For starters, it’s long. and wraps up at 2:30 p.m.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Do a quick internet search for “whole-brain teaching” and it will pull up a string of videos of young students repeating words back to a teacher in unison, waving hands or conducting other movements, and turning to their neighbor every few minutes to share. In some ways, these classrooms look like organized chaos. No-brainer?

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Like Patterson, students in recent years report better cognitive, social and academic outcomes through game-based learning and interactive play , compared to lecture-based instruction. “I I feel engaged with people who are interactive — they’re not trying to teach at you, but they’re trying to teach with you together,” Patterson said.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The days of checking books out of the library, traditional style lecturing, and writing papers with a pen are continuously becoming pastimes. Using technology in and outside of the classroom as a means of teaching and learning is valuable to both educators and students. The pedagogical benefits of teaching with video are plentiful.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

Because teaching is first and foremost about communication, these principles apply just as well to teaching, especially to online teaching with videos. Use Striking Photos All communication begins with getting the listener’s attention, and thus visuals should be striking and memorable. Both images are striking.

Teaching 108

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on first-year teaching supports. This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. newsletters.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 20, 2024

Because teaching is first and foremost about communication, these principles apply just as well to teaching, especially to online teaching with videos. Use Striking Photos All communication begins with getting the listener’s attention, and thus visuals should be striking and memorable. Both images are striking.

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Teaching Lecturing Disabilities Attention 107