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JUNE 17, 2021

Teachers enroll now in new online professional development courses designed to improve student achievement in reading and math. Both the Lexile and Quantile courses offer an interactive curriculum featuring direct instruction, knowledge checks, summative assessments and performance tasks. DURHAM, N.C.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Model Teaching is an online educator training program with a goal not only to provide teaching knowledge but to improve overall student performance. Classes are designed to help new and experienced K-12 teachers master concepts and immediately apply them to their lessons. What is Model Teaching? assess success at completion.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Read on for three useful ways to improve student learning. These are: pre-exposure, activating prior knowledge, and retrieval practice. When we understand the different ways of priming and how they work, we can better identify opportunities for incorporating priming into our courses and programs. a video about a course or topic.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. I knew of ChatGPT from reading articles online, but I didn't know how it worked. And at first, our school blocked its use.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

So how do colleges and universities help faculty build the knowledge to teach in online environments? Send an invitation via email that contains a link to an online resource site with relevant materials, videos, background reading, etc. Untethering Faculty Development. Provide an option to participate remotely using video conferencing.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

They dug into the principles of universal design for learning, how instructions can use rubrics to empower students to demonstrate knowledge in many different ways, and how to break up class sessions to make it easier for everyone to participate fully. Del Tufo: Reading is probably the most prevalent one that I see.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Read on for three useful ways to improve student learning. These are: pre-exposure, activating prior knowledge, and retrieval practice. When we understand the different ways of priming and how they work, we can better identify opportunities for incorporating priming into our courses and programs. a video about a course or topic.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. It is inductive, beginning with raw experience that is processed through an intentional learning format and transformed into working, usable knowledge. Why experiential learning i nside the classroom?

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

She’s also director of the Center for Teaching Excellence there, which provides faculty with support for instruction, edtech, course design, classroom management and grading. And for me as an educator, I always really subscribe to Paolo Freire's thoughts on the idea that you build knowledge together in the classroom with students.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2023

However, we all can determine that by reading that AI-generated philosophy, we would need to tweak and edit it. A well-written teaching philosophy statement should act as a guide during course design, development, instruction, and assessment as well as through programmatic development and revision. Read, read, read.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Universal Design 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. They could always find and read the content on their own. We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. Teaching of Psychology, 52 (1), 45-52.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

The innovations that faculty, librarians and course designers are creating now help deliver education to today’s learners, who may be working adults , the first in their families to attend college or parents balancing their own education goals with those of their children.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I landed on an assignment that would give these graduating seniors experience applying accounting knowledge to financial information. Even though I teach accounting, making one small change and using your learning objectives to inform that change will provide positive outcomes no matter the discipline or the course.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements. It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences. These activities promote critical thinking and application of knowledge.

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Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2023

However, we all can determine that by reading that AI-generated philosophy, we would need to tweak and edit it. A well-written teaching philosophy statement should act as a guide during course design, development, instruction, and assessment as well as through programmatic development and revision. Read, read, read.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience. It is inductive, beginning with raw experience that is processed through an intentional learning format and transformed into working, usable knowledge. Why experiential learning i nside the classroom?

Problem-Based Learning 98

Problem-Based Learning Learning Students Lecturing 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

Many professors may not be familiar with, A self-directed guide to designing courses for significant learning , a resource designed to do just what it says. From this, Fink developed a model known as integrated course design which consists of three phases: the initial, intermediate and final design phases.

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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 57

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

The competencies are grouped into four quadrants: Content Knowledge, Creative Know-How, Habits of Success and Wayfinding Abilities. In some cases, the framework’s quadrants are central to course design, impacting curriculum, instruction and the student experience. Eighth graders who are taking a capstone course on U.S.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Modeled after the program at Bryn Mawr College, the student-faculty partnership program at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (URTGV), one of the largest Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the nation, aims to create educational spaces in direct response to students’ experiences, knowledge, and insights. Image courtesy of Unsplash.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It not only reinforces vocabulary and grammatical structures but also helps students synthesize their knowledge in a way that supports the other core language skills: reading, speaking, and listening. Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pearson Education, 2000. 2016, www2.ncte.org/statement/teaching-writing.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Access: Building Bridges to Opportunity Accessible Course Design Accessibility in online education goes beyond compliance with legal requirements. It involves designing courses that accommodate diverse learning needs and preferences. These activities promote critical thinking and application of knowledge.

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Accessibility Disabilities Education Culture 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I landed on an assignment that would give these graduating seniors experience applying accounting knowledge to financial information. Even though I teach accounting, making one small change and using your learning objectives to inform that change will provide positive outcomes no matter the discipline or the course.

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Activities Syllabus Learning Knowledge 92

Faculty Focus

JUNE 6, 2023

In addition to the numerous benefits, online courses also have a few obstacles that must be addressed to make these courses attractive and successful. One of the difficulties in course design is ensuring optimal access to the information we intend our students to utilize inside and outside the classroom.

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Accessibility Course Design Students Research Methods 69

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. You could also integrate videos or podcasts into your course materials, in addition to assigning readings. Encourage student participation.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

The presenter is unable to simply ‘read’ information off of the slides. Students will perceive instructors as being knowledgeable on the topic as they are perceived to be able to lecture without notes. This results in improved presentation skills, and ultimately, self-confidence in both the presentation and the topic knowledge.

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Lecturing Instructors Active Learning Activities 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 16, 2025

An Anticipatory Set For me, a well-designed class begins with an anticipatory set and a review of prior learning. These activities work together to engage students, activate their prior knowledge, and prepare them for new content.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

Students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and other cognitive differences often experience auditory, visual, and spatial processing difficulties, affecting their reading, writing, and overall learning. The following lists provide an overview of strategies and some suggestions on how to incorporate these you’re your courses.

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Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

I often think of standard assessments as ‘show me what you know’ and alternative assessments as ‘demonstrate what you can do with that knowledge.’” I'm excited to read more! As many #DLNchat -ters pointed out, they are efficient and thus attractive assessment tools for instructors of large courses.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2023

Students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and other cognitive differences often experience auditory, visual, and spatial processing difficulties, affecting their reading, writing, and overall learning. The following lists provide an overview of strategies and some suggestions on how to incorporate these you’re your courses.

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Disabilities Learning Spaces Universal Design Learning Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One of us is from American Studies and the other from Sociology, and our readings for the courses reflected our disciplines. We still kept a lot of the material we had originally planned on using and did not overlap that much in terms of readings or even the way assignments were structured.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

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. You could also integrate videos or podcasts into your course materials, in addition to assigning readings. Encourage student participation.

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Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 108

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

One of us is from American Studies and the other from Sociology, and our readings for the courses reflected our disciplines. We still kept a lot of the material we had originally planned on using and did not overlap that much in terms of readings or even the way assignments were structured.

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Interdisciplinary Art History Discussions 105

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

It not only reinforces vocabulary and grammatical structures but also helps students synthesize their knowledge in a way that supports the other core language skills: reading, speaking, and listening. Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Pearson Education, 2000. 2016, www2.ncte.org/statement/teaching-writing.

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Language Languages Writing Communication 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

Their aim in teaching was to instill knowledge as if the students were empty vessels into which the professor simply poured content. The statements were read aloud by students in a choral-reading fashion, substituting “I am.” The course assignment(s) draft was finalized. for “Students are.”

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 20, 2022

When students develop research questions, analyze data, and synthesize their findings, they generate global knowledge with impact for their chosen field, and that builds their cultural competency. Recognize perspectives. Human interaction is influenced by perspectives. Something else could be added the next semester.

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Culture Assignments Communication Study 96

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

Seth Greenberg: My most formative learning experiences have usually involved 1) the application of knowledge in real projects 2) working with real people and 3) a result of consequence. But the article that resonated the most was Amy Ahearn’s: The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers.

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