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Starting with Philosophy: Examining Teaching Philosophy as a Starting Point for Improvement

Faculty Focus

Yes, ChatGPT could write it and it might look a little like this: My philosophy of teaching is centered on the belief that all students have the potential to learn and succeed. To tap into this potential, I adopt student-centered approaches that prioritize student voice, choice, and agency in the learning process.

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Starting with Philosophy: Examining Teaching Philosophy as a Starting Point for Improvement

Faculty Focus

Yes, ChatGPT could write it and it might look a little like this: My philosophy of teaching is centered on the belief that all students have the potential to learn and succeed. To tap into this potential, I adopt student-centered approaches that prioritize student voice, choice, and agency in the learning process.

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Tired of the Same Old Professional Development? Let Students Lead.

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The way sessions were facilitated often contradicted research-based teaching strategies. It is also frustrating when pre-packaged PD sessions are disconnected from your specific school context and student population. The impact of substandard and irrelevant PD is also noticeable to students. Wait, we can DO that?”

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Does Your Teaching-Learning Philosophy Align with Your Teaching?

Faculty Focus

There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” Unfortunately, our current use of teaching philosophy statements doesn’t usually contain that expectation. taking a course intended to prepare them to teach.

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Does Your Teaching-Learning Philosophy Align with Your Teaching?

Faculty Focus

There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” Unfortunately, our current use of teaching philosophy statements doesn’t usually contain that expectation. taking a course intended to prepare them to teach.

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‘Press Play’ Isn’t a Teaching Strategy: Why Educators Need New Methods for Video

Edsurge

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. As a teacher or a student, you may remember a holiday-week screening of E.T. Introductory Paratext Let’s consider what might ease students into video-based learning.

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How to hire technology leaders, not followers

eSchool News

The hiring process should reflect this need to have the teaching philosophies of new staff align closely with its vision. It is no longer enough to look at only the traditional aspects of teaching — subject knowledge, interaction with students, organization, etc. How could interviews change?