Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. The data disproved his belief: He’d only heard from female students around one-third of the time, even though they made up nearly half his class. The difference may be more pronounced in science classes.

Lecturing 161

Lecturing Participation Instructors Beliefs 161

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI.

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Science Learning Schools Gamification 142

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2018

There’s always something new I discover to help me better live out my beliefs about teaching. Here’s what I aim to do with this new EdSurge advice column: Recognize that teaching is both an art and a science. (You can read more about my background and university role here.) I’m regularly being reshaped by these conversations.

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Art Science Teaching Mobile Devices 110

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2023

Wilson: an influential biologist and conservationist who promoted citizen science initiatives such as the “School of Ants” Margaret and Geoffrey Leaney: husband-and-wife team who developed methods for rearing insects Are you interested? This is where citizen science comes in.

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Science Participation Laboratory Interdisciplinary 144

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

A harsh debate can leave students (and instructors) feeling upset, or make them discouraged about participating in future conversations. Considering these high stakes, students and instructors may be tempted to avoid tough subjects altogether, or only discuss them with like-minded folks. But there’s another option.

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Instructors Beliefs Confidentiality Discussions 174

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

By implementing these strategies, CTE educators can expect a vibrant, engaging learning environment where students can obtain skills and knowledge for a successful future. –Stefany Gurgel, NC3 Master Instructor, Festo and Instructor, Jewish Leadership Academy Learning and experiencing outside the four walls of the classroom is essential.

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Education Coaching Schools STEM 167

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

Some schools do, but a lot of schools generally leave absence management up to individual instructors. To your point though, more broadly, I think one of the issues is that we can no longer assume that it's a shared belief structure that we all think being in the classroom is the thing to do post-pandemic.

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Students Instructors Lecturing Participation 201

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

— Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 339

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Instructors are equally susceptible to the deeply counterintuitive nature of learning. Self-regulated learning: beliefs, techniques, and illusions. Science, 331, 772–775. doi:10.1126/science.1199327 In fact, decades of research reveal that students: are poor judges of the efficacy of their learning efforts. Karpicke, J.

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Education Evaluation Failure Essay 157

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

If anyone knows the importance of belonging, it’s Columbia University instructor Marcelle Mentor, who grew up as a Black child under apartheid in South Africa. Mentor is now part of the faculty at the university’s Teachers College, where one of her research areas is education equity.

Middle School 169

Middle School Middle School Schools Students 169

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

His passion for open access courses is rooted in his belief that the internet has an important role to play in education. Severance points out that the University of Michigan School of Information , where he teaches, is not a computer science department—but it draws in students from a variety of backgrounds to learn to code. “I

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Instructors Lecturing Beliefs Internet 78

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

What Smart Sparrow and a slew of other upstarts now offer are course-building platforms that let instructors and supporting staff design online courses completely from scratch. Dror-Naim believes in giving instructors full control over designing all the different paths of content that learners may encounter. Will Schools Pony Up?

Teachers 128

Teachers Instructors Learning Quizzes 128

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Instead of hearing only from the same six students, instructors get feedback from many more. Amazon Transcribe automatically creates text transcripts from the audio track in the videos and makes them available for students and instructors to view directly from within the classroom player. Chickering and Zelda F.

Study 164

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). The intent is to help the instructor think critically about their teaching and look for evidence of effective teaching.

Teaching 114

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 114

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). The intent is to help the instructor think critically about their teaching and look for evidence of effective teaching.

Teaching 109

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 109

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

These factors converge to understandably discourage teachers with established routines from shifting away from lecturing and into flipped learning, a change that many scholars of pedagogy and education sciences strongly advocate for. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. McDonough, M.,

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 25, 2024

As instructors and course developers, many of us would like to leave students and recent graduates with an interest in lifelong learning. To illustrate, I am an early childhood education instructor who runs a medium-sized (70 learners) class on food education and mealtime practices for pre-service preschool teachers.

Learning 116

Learning Instructors Coaching Knowledge 116

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Our basic understanding of science, mathematics, humanities and the social sciences is being reshaped at a dizzying pace. For most of this next generation of learners, higher education won’t just be about learning for learning’s sake, or an anachronistic belief that a college degree on its own will guarantee gainful employment.

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Education Knowledge History Science 130

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Students as Learners and Teachers (SaLT) is an innovative teaching approach where students and instructors collaborate to improve educational experiences ( Cavazos et al., 2024; Cook-Sather, 2020). 2024; Montenegro & Jankowski, 2017; Tinto, 2017; Winklemes, 2016).

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Teaching Instructors English Language 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

For every class, they'll have anywhere from one to three guided study sessions, which are 50 minutes long,” says Alicia Goodwin, the guided study instructor for the Newport Beach campus. Students come to the Newport Beach campus for a variety of reasons, observes David Barerra, a math and science teacher at the school. “We

Teachers 160

Teachers Schools Students Study 160

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023). Indrayani, L.M. , & Rido, A.

Essay 127

Essay English Lecturing Writing 127

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Grading and Feedback: Support and Guide, Don’t Punish and Penalize Grading practices should reflect the belief that students can grow and improve. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences , 111 (23), 84108415. McDonough, M.,

Plagiarism 106

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 106

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This commitment to data stems from the organization’s belief in making data-driven decisions. Data science applied in public education just moves the points of interpretation and subjectivity. The promise of data science is that we could make better decisions, and [that] better decisions are objective decisions.

Ethics 109

Ethics Beliefs Exams Culture 109

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 25, 2024

As instructors and course developers, many of us would like to leave students and recent graduates with an interest in lifelong learning. To illustrate, I am an early childhood education instructor who runs a medium-sized (70 learners) class on food education and mealtime practices for pre-service preschool teachers.

Learning 98

Learning Instructors Coaching Knowledge 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, findings from Carol Dwek’s research emphasized that a mindset focused on the brain’s ability to grow with repeated effort was a stronger predictor of ongoing academic success than a belief in the high level of one’s innate intelligence. Communicate with students about interpreting instructor feedback. 2019, October 29).

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Grading and Feedback: Support and Guide, Don’t Punish and Penalize Grading practices should reflect the belief that students can grow and improve. Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences , 111 (23), 84108415. McDonough, M.,

Plagiarism 93

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 93

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

While companies such as GPTZero have responded to academic concerns by creating software designed to detect the use of AI in written work, false positives and underconfidence in the software’s assessment leaves instructors without an actionable means to promote integrity in coursework (Chaka, 2023). Indrayani, L.M. , & Rido, A.

Essay 110

Essay English Lecturing Writing 110

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Instead of hearing only from the same six students, instructors get feedback from many more. Amazon Transcribe automatically creates text transcripts from the audio track in the videos and makes them available for students and instructors to view directly from within the classroom player. Chickering and Zelda F.

Study 98

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

For example, findings from Carol Dwek’s research emphasized that a mindset focused on the brain’s ability to grow with repeated effort was a stronger predictor of ongoing academic success than a belief in the high level of one’s innate intelligence. Communicate with students about interpreting instructor feedback. 2019, October 29).

Teaching 97

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 97

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

More instructors are experimenting with adaptive-learning systems in their classrooms. Our algorithms work," I would argue that that's alchemy, that's not science. I didn't have the privilege of going to some high school that gave me lots of practice thinking about science and math the way that this institution is expecting me to.

Peer Review 101

Peer Review Ethics Science Intelligence 101

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

These meetings establish a venue for online instructors to come together to discuss challenges and share best practices, a setting in which some of the best professional preparation takes place. Education Science. Dr. Andy Jett is dean of the College of Innovative Professional and Graduate Studies (CIPGS) at Avila University.

Online Learning 105

Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 105

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

The answer is you have to make it really easy for the typical instructor to be able to bring their course online and then manage it online. But my belief is that a learning management system is like an operating system for education. And yet faculty didn’t know HTML. They didn’t know how to program. I don’t have that concern.

Quizzes 103

Quizzes Beliefs Distance Learning Culture 103

Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

These meetings establish a venue for online instructors to come together to discuss challenges and share best practices, a setting in which some of the best professional preparation takes place. Education Science. Dr. Andy Jett is dean of the College of Innovative Professional and Graduate Studies (CIPGS) at Avila University.

Online Learning 88

Online Learning Distance Learning Education Learning 88

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

As such, entrepreneurs come to be depicted as those who are dealing with novelty and complex scenarios, and they make decisions in ways that go beyond the rational models of normal social science. For both instructors and their students, that means adopting a mindset that avoids persistence in favor of pivoting and changing course.

Teaching 59

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 59

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

As such, entrepreneurs come to be depicted as those who are dealing with novelty and complex scenarios, and they make decisions in ways that go beyond the rational models of normal social science. For both instructors and their students, that means adopting a mindset that avoids persistence in favor of pivoting and changing course.

Teaching 52

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Students bring pre-existing attitudes, beliefs and interests into the classroom, but situational factors can influence whether or not students develop interest in new material that is presented to them in an educational context (Durik, 2003). How effective was the instructors ability to interact with students? Bordelon, D. McLaren, P.

Course Design 60

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 60

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Students bring pre-existing attitudes, beliefs and interests into the classroom, but situational factors can influence whether or not students develop interest in new material that is presented to them in an educational context (Durik, 2003). How effective was the instructors ability to interact with students? Bordelon, D. McLaren, P.

Course Design 55

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 55