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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

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University faculty members are usually immersed in various tasks related to teaching, research, committees, and office hours. This isolation can hinder their professional development and growth, especially if they do not take the time to reflect on their own teaching methods and practices.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

University faculty members are usually immersed in various tasks related to teaching, research, committees, and office hours. This isolation can hinder their professional development and growth, especially if they do not take the time to reflect on their own teaching methods and practices.

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Teaching is Both Art and Science. How to Work Toward Improving Your Instructional Practice

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Since I can never seem to avoid changing my classes each time I teach them, I’m anticipating how the new semester will bring me new learning as a teacher. Since the Fall of 2014, I have been having weekly conversations on the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast with people I consider to be magnificent educators.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

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Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. Teaching : Students might be required to teach something they learned in a specific course to peers, other classes, or groups of students.

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How ‘Dialogue’ Can Create Empathy in a Divided Classroom

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Our social media feeds often are reinforcing the beliefs that we already have. I think that there's some understanding among some people that a call to dialogue can sometimes be associated with this idea of maintaining civility, which may feel like an attempt to silence urgency around political beliefs or lived situations.

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The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. Teaching : Students might be required to teach something they learned in a specific course to peers, other classes, or groups of students.

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Coping with the Curse of Knowledge (and Yes, You May Have It Too)

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This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on September 23, 2019 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! I couldn’t possibly know too much math and chemistry, the content I teach. Discovering what I did not know about the curse of knowledge has changed the way I teach.

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