Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates. Bonnie Hemrick, Director of Mental Health Promotion at Oregon State University, helped frame issues of student well-being and resilience. These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations.

Disabilities 53

Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 53

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. At a macro level, disability organizations are finding ways to work together that would never have happened before the pandemic. At East High School in Rochester, N.Y.,

Disabilities 213

Disabilities Distance Learning Special Education Students 213

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? For more information, Del Tufo recommends the universal design for learning research of Anne Meyer and David Rose. The Power of Words (grade 3).

Schools 176

Schools Disabilities Exams Distance Learning 176

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And, like her peers nationwide, her transition to first grade in the fall of 2021 was a challenging one. Although she was performing at grade level academically, she experienced increasing challenges with her attention, organization, peer interactions and behaviors at school. It’s every kid in this grade,” her teacher said.

Special Education 210

Special Education Schools Evaluation Attention 210

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

She plans instruction for four separate grade levels—second through fifth—and two different subject areas—math and ELA—while also deciding which classroom technology is best suited to each day’s lesson. I work in Title I schools, and we still have a lot of students below grade level for reading. How does she do it?

Education 200

Education Language Languages Disabilities 200

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. You can read part one here. The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted daily life for virtually every educator, parent, and student in the U.S.

Accessibility 218

Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

It is important to understand inclusive pedagogies as practices where we discern the nuance between general multicultural education or culturally responsive pedagogy and inclusive practices that specifically address the ability/disability continuum and the health dimension. Support colleagues with disabilities.

Accessibility 70

Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 70

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

In telling them about myself, I open up a portal into a world where teachers are humanized instead of being seen as authority figures who just distribute grades at the end of the semester. I can tell my students the value of building strength in the face of pain because I also live that struggle.

Teachers 182

Teachers Failure Attention Disabilities 182

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

High school senior at Newton North High School in Newton, MA, Yishai Barth, feels strongly about the importance of Universal Design Language (UDL). The Universal Design movement came into existence as a response to this research by leading thinkers in the engineering and design professions.

Technology 103

Technology Universal Design Learning Writing 103

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates. Bonnie Hemrick, Director of Mental Health Promotion at Oregon State University, helped frame issues of student well-being and resilience. These were not standard end-of-semester evaluations.

Disabilities 64

Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 64

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, these old-fashioned assessment techniques often create new barriers to learning, especially for disabled students, English language learners, neurodiverse students, and any other students that rely on technology to aid their thinking, communication, and learning. Students cheat for good grades. References Anderman, E.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, these old-fashioned assessment techniques often create new barriers to learning, especially for disabled students, English language learners, neurodiverse students, and any other students that rely on technology to aid their thinking, communication, and learning. Students cheat for good grades. References Anderman, E.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

When students have underqualified teachers or full-time substitutes , they’re more likely to experience learning delays, low graduation rates, and test scores below grade level. Administrative tools can save time on planning, grading, and feedback. Their approach was successful. What do they want to learn about?

Education 52

Education Learning Styles Special Education Feedback 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).

Course Design 60

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 60

Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

It is important that situational factors be identified as a key component to make planning decisions since retrofitting ones instructional design, delivery or assessment only after one finds out who is being instructed, are not effective use of faculty time, effort or university resources (Schreiner, Rothernberger and Scoltz, 2013).

Course Design 59

Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 59

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

At last, final grades—or pass/fail marks —are turned in. And you won’t be graded for this course—at least not by us. Thrive Online: A New Approach for College Educators ,” by Shannon Riggs (book), dispels myths about online education and emphasizes the importance of course design and facilitation. “

Syllabus 218

Syllabus Lecturing Education Course Design 218