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Make Your Teaching the Cynosure of AttentionĀ 

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Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. A thought-provoking question is a great crowd-pleaser.

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Make Your Teaching the Cynosure of AttentionĀ 

Faculty Focus

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. A thought-provoking question is a great crowd-pleaser.

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Bridging the Gap: Active Learning Strategies for Traditional and Online Classrooms

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Measuring Engagement and Refining Strategy One-minute papers serve as powerful self-assessment tools in my traditional classes. Beyond quantitative measures, I pay attention to qualitative indicators like the sophistication of student questions and the complexity of peer-to-peer discussions.

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Four Steps to Promote Student Success in College Classrooms

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This captures the attention of students and helps them better understand which topics are critical to achieve success in the course, and how the material connects to both previous and future content. ā€œNow Traffic light cards: A cross and modification between the minute paper and muddiest point. References He, Y. link] He, Y.

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Four Steps to Promote Student Success in College Classrooms

Faculty Focus

This captures the attention of students and helps them better understand which topics are critical to achieve success in the course, and how the material connects to both previous and future content. ā€œNow Traffic light cards: A cross and modification between the minute paper and muddiest point. References He, Y. link] He, Y.

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Are Your Assessments Fair and Balanced?

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In higher education, both topics have received considerable attention in recent years with proponents linking assessment and feedback—and strategies for these—to educational, social, psychological, and employability benefits (Gaynor, 2020).

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How Conducting a Mixed-mode Class is Similar to Hosting a Late-night Talk Show

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How do you divide your attention between in-person and remote students? So, if the host shows a funny newspaper article to the camera, which the home audience can easily see, the in-person audience won’t miss out since they can move their attention to the monitors. How do you know if the remote students can see and hear you?

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