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3 simple strategies to supercharge student growth

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Differentiation must play a key role in their teaching philosophy. Assignments can even be adjusted so they cover the same standards, but directly integrate student interests like sports, pop culture, or videogames! As educators, we recognize that each of our students is on their own unique learning journey.

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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

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The way that books have nourished my teaching has been in the area of identifying and refining my teaching philosophy and general pedagogical approaches. I haven’t read many books that are focused strictly on online teaching. Each lesson has a well-curated collection of videos, readings and other resources.

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How to Be an Antiracist Educator: An Interview With Ibram X. Kendi

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You’ve written about your experiences in classrooms and at education institutions where teachers and the broader learning environment and the culture of the community either affirmed or racially abused students. Does the book reflect your own teaching style or teaching philosophy? Is that how you teach?

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

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Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading. As a teacher or a student, you may remember a holiday-week screening of E.T.

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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

Faculty Focus

This may help the student better understand the novels cultural context, competing demands and motivations for different characters, and the social restrictions facing some characters. But since it does not help the student solve a real-world problem, such an activity is not applied learning.

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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

Faculty Focus

This may help the student better understand the novels cultural context, competing demands and motivations for different characters, and the social restrictions facing some characters. But since it does not help the student solve a real-world problem, such an activity is not applied learning.

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From the Marine Corps to the Classroom

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I mean, it's good to go over teaching philosophies and models, but I wish it was a little more hands on. So for me, seeing what was going on with the culture wars and seeing all these teachers leaving after the pandemic, I felt like if any time is the right time to do this, it's now. Sometimes I wonder, ‘Is it worth it?’