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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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So what has he learned in more than 20 years from applying his persistence (and much of the money he won from the Nobel) to studying teaching? EdSurge connected with Wieman to find out, and to hear about his more recent efforts to improve how teaching evaluations are done at colleges to make them more useful — and more equitable.

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16 Education Podcasts to Check Out In 2017

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When asking around, several folks we talked to praised Teaching in Higher Ed as a podcast with particularly engaging discussions. Teaching Strategies Cult of Pedagogy Podcast Jennifer Gonzalez, a former middle school teacher, hosts this podcast as part of her popular blog on teaching strategies, education reform, and ed tech.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

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Colleges around the country have shut down and moved teaching online, and no one knows when it will be safe to reopen and resume normal operations. That reality was highlighted during a live online discussion EdSurge held this week in partnership with Bryan Alexander’s Future Trends Forum.

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Why Professors Should Ask Students For Feedback Long Before the Semester Is Over

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During the next class period, she discusses the findings with her students. And research shows that professors who collect early-term feedback, and who use it to make changes to their courses with the help of a consultant, can raise their end-of-semester teaching evaluations.

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

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Teachers can keep a curiosity board or chart.Questions and comments posted on the board or poster are incorporated into future discussions. Before that, she served as director of an award winning graduate program, the Master of Arts in Teaching licensure program. Her total years of service at UCA in various roles totals 34 years.

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

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Teachers can keep a curiosity board or chart.Questions and comments posted on the board or poster are incorporated into future discussions. Before that, she served as director of an award winning graduate program, the Master of Arts in Teaching licensure program. Her total years of service at UCA in various roles totals 34 years.

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Mid-Semester Course Corrections: Using the MSF Model to Engage Students and Improve Courses

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In contrast, the Midterm Student Feedback (MSF) mechanism, which is generally voluntary, is fundamentally focused on teaching and learning. The MSF asks students simple, direct questions focused on the teaching and learning process in their current course. 2016; McGrath, 2014).