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Getting pre-service teachers comfortable using and teaching with STEAM tools

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She won the grant, which allowed the Dean Children’s Center to buy two KIBO kits and do an independent study project focused on implementing the hands-on, screen-free robot with four- and five-year-old children at Dean College’s Children’s Center. This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers.

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How to Assess Inclusiveness in Teaching

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Espoused Values and Beliefs The first source of information ought to come from your espoused values and beliefs. When you go back and revisit your writing on the subject, how well does it align with your beliefs now? Ultimately, we want to determine how effectively we articulate our beliefs and in what contexts.

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Enhancing Face-to-Face Education: Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Student Success? 

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This observation led my colleagues and me to reflect on the importance of maximizing the LMS’s potential (a belief that we held prior to the pandemic). What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features?

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Increasing Student Success: A Developmental Approach

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Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. syllabus) to identify any logistical rigor that may distract students from what is most important about the learning process and outcomes for the course (Supiano, 2022).

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How Mega-Universities Manage to Teach Hundreds of Thousands of Students

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One of my colleagues at New York University disagreed, cautioning even decades ago, that the belief was “pretty naive.” Students gain access to their courses — syllabus, main project, required engagements, discussion forum and other materials — a week prior to the start of class. It turns out he was right.

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Enhancing Face-to-Face Education: Leveraging Learning Management Systems for Student Success? 

Faculty Focus

This observation led my colleagues and me to reflect on the importance of maximizing the LMS’s potential (a belief that we held prior to the pandemic). What’s it like going from one course that simply posts a syllabus in the LMS to another that makes more robust use of the tools and features?

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I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching? 

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I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Utilize the Wise feedback model.

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