Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption. 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.

Lecturing 161

Lecturing Participation Instructors Beliefs 161

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

It also sparked his belief that textbooks could evolve from something static into more fluid resources that adapt to students’ readiness levels. Shiva Kintali: As a teaching assistant at Georgia Tech and while teaching at Princeton, I developed an interest in helping my students learn mathematical concepts in a fun and intuitive way.

Textbooks 107

Textbooks Intelligence Math Beliefs 107

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

After a short lecture on the underlying principles tested by the prompt, you could engage the students in TPS: ask them to reflect on how their new understanding changes how they would answer the prompt, and then pair them up to talk about their findings with their neighbor.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. For some reason, it’s a common belief that everyone who goes into fields such as math, economics or computer science is brilliant, probably in part because those fields are financially rewarding, Miller-Cotto says.

Math 186

Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 186

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning.

Coaching 109

Coaching Math Achievement Grades 109