Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

A faculty vision of inclusive pedagogy informed by equity and social justice transcends bias and makes diversity functional and beneficial to all students. Start here… Adopt an asset-based approach for all students. Assume that students are capable and possess knowledge and skills. Be open and welcome student questions.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Jeff LeBlanc (image courtesy of Jeff LeBlanc) I’m a business and leadership lecturer, and I’ve worked with Gen Z since the earliest wave entered higher education. Each student receives a fictional budget and must bid on leadership traits they value most. What has changed is the way students talk about those traits.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam is the co-founder of the Vietnam Innovative Educators Foundation (VIEF), a professional network of over 157,000 educators committed to advancing technology-enhanced and student-centered teaching practices nationwide. In a recent interview with K12 Digest, Nam Ngo Thanh discussed his experience with technology, innovation, and education.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Students in higher education also deserve nurturing spaces that focus on utilizing their personalized strengths and needs to foster increased academic and social development. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led.

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Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

We have all seen the stereotypical portrayal of the traditional school setting where a teacher stands at the front of the classroom and spends the entirety of class time giving a lecture and asking questions of the students. The first, and most obvious is to include a lot of turn-and-talks, preferably with 3 or more students.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

And today, as a doctoral student and aspiring professor, I can see how those early disparities still show up in our college classrooms. And students from those environments bring that context with them when they walk into our lecture halls. And that gap isn’t the student’s fault. We don’t control our students’ ZIP codes.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

And today, as a doctoral student and aspiring professor, I can see how those early disparities still show up in our college classrooms. And students from those environments bring that context with them when they walk into our lecture halls. And that gap isn’t the student’s fault. We don’t control our students’ ZIP codes.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Students in higher education also deserve nurturing spaces that focus on utilizing their personalized strengths and needs to foster increased academic and social development. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led.

Assignments 61

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 61

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Explore different classroom setup ideas to see which might work best for your classroom size and layout, your current students, and your different lessons. Conference Seating: Best for whole-class discussions 2. Flexible Seating: Best for adapting to students’ individual needs 4. Table of Contents 1.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it. Janell Blunt , an associate professor of psychology at Anderson University in Indiana, uses personal mini-whiteboards with her college students in every class. It’s crickets.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. Something broke in American education these past years. You might wonder why this preference exists.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 135

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

But their reluctance has less to do with what’s happening in class and more to do with their identities as students. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Shift to a student-centered classroom 8.

High School 52

High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

In summary Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever. Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them?

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

In summary Five years after COVID shut down most California high schools, today’s college students describe a difficult transition to adulthood, marked by fear, loss and a lack of preparation. Across California students grappled with transitioning to college during the pandemic. In 2020 32% fell into the bottom tier.

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Math English Lecturing High School 88

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. I had begun to worry it widened the gap between me and my students by highlighting differences rather than commonalities. But a few years ago, I removed the slide.

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Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. I had begun to worry it widened the gap between me and my students by highlighting differences rather than commonalities. But a few years ago, I removed the slide.

Teaching 70

Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

These simple questions are an easy way to get students talking and thinking without the pressure of a writing prompt. Ease into the new year with these fun and lighthearted Would You Rather questions for high school students. Use digital-life Would You Rather (WYR) questions to help students open up and reflect on their online lives.

High School 52

High School High School Questions Schools 52

eSchool News

MAY 9, 2016

However, in high school, my science classes were primarily comprised of lectures and worksheets. To make science relevant to students, create lessons and activities that connect to their lives. To kick off the discussion, I ask if anyone’s tire pressure light came on during the first cold morning of the fall. Make it relevant.

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Science STEM Lecturing Middle School 228

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2020

They make it possible for teachers to maintain a human connection with their students and guide their learning from a distance. Below are three suggestions for using these video conferencing platforms to continue teaching students as they learn remotely. #1 2 Facilitate a Small Group Discussion. 3 Conferencing with Students.

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Learning Students Discussions Textbooks 546

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. What’s the Use of Lectures? Let’s start with one of education’s most hallowed traditions: the lecture.

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Lecturing Questions Learning Attention 207

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., The benefit of assigning video instruction for homework is that students can control the time, place, and pace of the learning experience when they watch the video at home.

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Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 469

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

In much the same way, teachers must get to know their students. Below are three aspects of our design work that I encourage teachers to consider as they architect learning experiences for their students. #1 1 Get To Know Your Students. How will you get to know your individual students at the beginning of the school year?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 14, 2020

Last night I had the opportunity to be a guest lecturer for students in the credential program at UC Riverside. As I was planning my presentation, I knew I wanted to engage the group attending my lecture. This made the responses easier to see and discuss. It worked beautifully!

Multiple Choice Questions 464

Multiple Choice Questions Lecturing Participation Distance Learning 464

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

They relied on videos out of necessity to explain concepts and model strategies while students learned from home. However, if teachers are going to say the same thing the same way for all students, I encourage them to make a video. Video puts the student in control of the pace at which they consume and process new information.

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Multiple Choice Questions Blended Learning Discussions Art 543

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 104

eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Apps can be a valuable resource for educators who have access to mobile devices and who want to engage students with digital resources. While they’re a fun resource, teachers don’t always have time to search through apps and ensure they’re appropriate for students; this means everyone misses out on what could be a memorable learning activity.

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Mobile Devices Lecturing Social Studies Students 279

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Immersive learning experiences are a new type of educational experience that can be used in place of traditional lectures and classrooms. Immersive learning is meant to mimic the real world by providing students with an environment that is as close to reality as possible. What is immersive learning?

Lecturing 335

Lecturing Textbooks Education Learning 335

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area.

Lecturing 96

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 96

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2022

The traditional sequence of teaching using lectures, discussion, projects, and testing was upended during the pandemic as teachers adapted to digital classrooms and students took on more responsibility for their learning. In many traditional classrooms, the majority of class time is spent in a lecture-and-listen format.

Laboratory 276

Laboratory Lecturing Discussions Testing 276

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

Among these is the flipped classroom model , a strategy that leverages video instruction to mitigate potential obstacles that make it challenging for students to access information presented live. Moreover, the pacing of these live presentations is unlikely to accommodate all students’ learning needs.

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Lecturing Knowledge Assignments Writing 433

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Keywords: Active Learning, Think-Pair-Share, STEM Background Introductory undergraduate STEM classes are notoriously painful experiences, both for the students and for the teacher. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

There is often a tension created by the pressure put on teachers to cover content with the student-centered approach to learning described by UDL and blended learning. We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information.

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Disabilities 545

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

Ironically, I see my students for about the same total amount of time because we are on an A/B schedule and our class meets every other day. Too often the default in this scenario is to lecture or verbally present information because it is faster. Allowing students to research, discuss, and share their findings takes time.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Before enrolling, students have to consider their own skills, their career prospects, and their ability to thrive within the department at large. As a parent, guidance counselor, or teacher, you can help students navigate college majors by doing a little research of your own. million more over their entire lifetime.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 213