article thumbnail

How You Can Habituate the Circular Model of Reflection: Before-Action, During-Action, After-Action, and Beyond-Action

Faculty Focus

Ideally, faculty development programs could promote and illustrate that reflection during the action can be learned. Interestingly, Schon would probably agree with the above. That being said, Schons reflection-during-action is indeed being practiced in nursing education, medical education, acting schools, and professional sports.

article thumbnail

Game On: How Four Community College Professors Spawned the CUNY Games Network

Edsurge

BMCC associate professors of English Joe Bisz and Carlos Fernandez stimulated the formation of CGN when they were awarded a 2007/08 CUNY faculty development grant to study how. Can a Classic Board Game Teach Writing Skills?

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

The Power of Authentic Assessment in the Age of AI

Faculty Focus

Although faculty development programs and curriculum designers have been calling for such (assessment practice) forms of assessment, today, we are more in need of it than ever before. Currently, she is working as a senior faculty development specialist at the Center for Teaching and Learning at Qatar University.

article thumbnail

Teaching Office Hour: How Can Profs Support Students Who Come In With Poor Writing Skills?

Edsurge

Approaches and resources that were recommended by people on Twitter include: Writing Across the Curriculum : This is a movement that works to build effective writing assignments into courses well beyond English, composition and literature classes.

Writing 158
article thumbnail

Helping Underrepresented Students Score Tomorrow’s Jobs

Edsurge

Kara Gardner, associate dean of faculty development at Minerva, suggested assembling a committee for hiring decisions, and making sure that committee represents diverse backgrounds and viewpoints. I think I have become even more conscious about it since I have been at Minerva because we design curriculum around that.”.

Students 154
article thumbnail

Rethinking the First Two Years of Higher Education

Edsurge

Even the term “general education,” as the curriculum is called at that point, feels generic—and almost like a commodity. This is what we're calling an integrated curriculum. The problem is both the labor conditions, they're not paid enough, and also they're not connected to the curriculum. There's different names for this.

Education 164
article thumbnail

The 3 Biggest Remote Teaching Concerns We Need to Solve Now

Edsurge

Meanwhile, fully infused programs, in which education technology is embedded across the curriculum, are rare (see Arizona State University’s Program-Wide and Program-Deep Technology Integration Curriculum ). Other programs provide a standalone workshop or course about education technology.

Teaching 218