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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

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).

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

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).

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Students Are Distracted. What Can Educators Do About It?

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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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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

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Until one day, you find yourself studying as a preservice teacher, enrolled in a mathematics content course that you are required to pass to obtain your teaching degree. We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

Faculty Focus

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. They are aware of mis- and disinformation, the fact that social media is designed to be attention-grabbing, and that not all sources are reliable.

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Teaching Information Literacy in an Age of Misinformation 

Faculty Focus

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. They are aware of mis- and disinformation, the fact that social media is designed to be attention-grabbing, and that not all sources are reliable.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

Faculty Focus

Until one day, you find yourself studying as a preservice teacher, enrolled in a mathematics content course that you are required to pass to obtain your teaching degree. We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada.

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