Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Reams have been written about the challenges with general education at US colleges and universities. Students often view general education requirements (gen eds) as “hurdles” to overcome on their way to the learning that matters to them. The sentiment is especially cacophonous in online education. Why am I doing this?”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Subsequently, instructor facilitated classroom conversations intended to enhance understanding of course content may stagnate and falter. The frame of content engagement can look different based on course, instructor and level of student. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A., H., & Bailey, E. Briggs, W. Sullivan, N., & Towler, 2005).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Something broke in American education these past years. You might argue that the traditional classroom still plays an essential role in education, but the rapid growth of online and hybrid models suggests otherwise. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

As leaders, educators, users, and creators, we have choices. I respect my instructors’ hard-earned expertise and original work, and I won’t use their work with GenAI tools without their permission. In addition, if instructors’ content appears on platforms that use GenAI, I will inform them where and how it is used.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

As leaders, educators, users, and creators, we have choices. I respect my instructors’ hard-earned expertise and original work, and I won’t use their work with GenAI tools without their permission. In addition, if instructors’ content appears on platforms that use GenAI, I will inform them where and how it is used.

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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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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. For example, a course on city growth might pull from earth science, social studies, money matters, and city planning. 2024) studied adding interdisciplinary learning in nursing classes using games.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods.

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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. Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

A nonprofit organization for career and technical education (CTE), SkillsUSA serves more than 413,000 middle school, high school, and college students and instructors nationwide.

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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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Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 62

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.”

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education.”

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

And they entered college with gaps in study skills and anxiety about social interactions. Holes in their education Especially for students who are the first in their families to attend college, what should have been their moment of triumph became months of tension. There were a lot of holes in their education,” she said.

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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. Teaching With a Self Teaching with a self is the default in Western societies and models of education. But a few years ago, I removed the slide.

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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. Teaching With a Self Teaching with a self is the default in Western societies and models of education. But a few years ago, I removed the slide.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Do you believe the United States should spend more money on the military or on education? 10 Informative 8th Grade Writing Prompts When you assign informative writing prompts to your 8th grade class, you’re letting them be the instructors! Describe your study process or homework routine. Should students have to take P.E.

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k12

JULY 24, 2025

Your child’s education lays the groundwork for success in their college experience, career, and personal life. So, it’s no wonder that parents are rethinking how their kids receive a K-12 education. Students attend classes led by certified teachers, follow a curriculum aligned with state education standards, and have classmates.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

I’ve developed somewhat of a complex in the last year being a college student with an interest in the education system. Online education and improved access to resources are changing the learning landscape. As a junior at Washington University in St. Factor in the chances that I am going to be ready to learn at precisely 4-5:30 p.m.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2016

Many educators turn to online and blended learning solutions to offer alternative solutions for at-risk students. The most important attribute of a successful online or blended learning program is a “rigorous and engaging curriculum,” according to participants in a recent study.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. I think there's less willingness to just do the thing because somebody told you to do it.” — Sarah Z.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

. — The vast majority of high school students are not financially literate but respond well to economics and personal finance courses that include digital tools in their curriculum, according to a new study by Project Tomorrow and Certell, creator of the Poptential family of free, award-winning social studies course packages.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. Most teachers dedicate significant time and energy to their instructor role, explaining complex concepts and processes and modeling specific strategies and skills. Studies in Educational Evaluation , 45 , 17-26. and Timperley, H. 77, 81–112.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In education, case studies are widely used as a pedagogical tool to encourage critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the application of theoretical knowledge. Well-planned case studies can challenge students’ problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Where to Find Case Studies?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. It’s not as simple as assuming that students are all cheaters, the instructor stresses.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

The Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) Commission on Artificial Intelligence in Education is chaired by South Carolina Gov. We have a blueprint of what it looks like to implement this technology into different fields of education and what types of relationships that creates with the workforce.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2021

However, moving a traditional classroom that’s built for face-to-face delivery to a hybrid-remote environment where instructors are teaching to both students in the classroom and online, often simultaneously, will take more than simply a laptop and a video conferencing application. Enter the multiscreen classroom. The model classroom.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, has expanded and enhanced its Bell Ringer content with the goal of providing a bell ringer for every day of the school year. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. Bell Ringers are brief conversation starters for use at the beginning of class to get students thinking.

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Social Studies Study Curriculum Quizzes 171

eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

As Tax Day approaches, Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors media-rich content to teach key concepts about taxation in the United States. Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests.

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High School High School Social Studies Teachers 288

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

Case studies consist of a short narrative followed by guiding questions that help learners think through the steps of solving a real-world problem. Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT make it easier and faster for educators to write case studies. The drawback is that educators cede control of the experience to the GenAI.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Generative AI is changing the landscape of higher education, in both good and bad ways (Balch, 2023). 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. This was our role as instructors prior to the advent of AI.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 114

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

The UDL framework helps educators think about and design learning experiences that allow all students to be successful. Instead of focusing myopically on our role as “instructor” transferring information, I’d love to see teachers embrace their role as a coach in the classroom, helping students to develop specific skills.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic created an educational environment that had never been seen before. Many students –– and instructors –– were abruptly forced to transition from traditional classroom learning to adopt a new remote format. Closed captioning with videos can also enhance student engagement in the classroom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? Should they disclose that to students? But many experts say it depends on what a teacher is doing with AI.

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors a variety of content to help students learn about the national debt using pop culture media to engage students. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. the nonprofit behind Poptential. The debt ceiling will be in the news this spring.

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