Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

To provide you with a little bit of context, I think it’s important to rewind the story all the way back to when I first entered the field of education. As a bit of a too-long-didn’t-read (TLDR), I worked as a K-12 educator, an instructional developer, and a post-secondary instructor. Lastly, I communicated consistently.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

Experiential learning is on the rise (Roberts & Welton 2022), perhaps because it can be a pathway to increased student engagement. To alleviate some confusion, my goal here is to explain the hallmarks of both applied humanities and experiential learning approaches, as well as what each mode of learning can offer to students.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Because we acknowledge that the grumpy time will likely be a time in which energy is lower and engagement wanes, we introduce content that is especially likely to engage our students (and us) during the grumpy time. We contend there are simple strategies to increase our own engagement in our courses (see Saucier et al.,

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Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Introduction Generative AI in higher education has been widely discussed following the record-breaking uptake of ChatGPT in November 2022 (Dwivedi et al., Students can use generative AI for academic tasks such as brainstorming, drafting, or improving writing; summarizing, explaining, or synthesizing texts; and data analysis (Sallam, 2023).

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 14, 2025

Learn all about symptoms, tips for turning things around, and how teacher burnout can have a major effect on the entire educational profession. Over 40% of teachers in K-12 education experience burnout , the highest rate in United States professional industries. Teacher burnout is a reason more educators quitting teaching completely.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

It’s often said that teaching and learning doesn’t always take place in the classroom—some of the most important lessons are learned on the playground, in the street, on the job or somewhere else. The same is true for educators, whose teaching philosophies are often shaped by moments that happened when they weren't in front of the classroom.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

This latter component, the instructor’s engagement, may then “trickle down” to enhance their students’ engagement and ultimate learning (Saucier, Miller, Martens, & Jones, 2022). Trickle down engagement: Effects of perceived teacher and student engagement on learning outcomes. Renken, M.S. Saucier, D.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

This latter component, the instructor’s engagement, may then “trickle down” to enhance their students’ engagement and ultimate learning (Saucier, Miller, Martens, & Jones, 2022). Trickle down engagement: Effects of perceived teacher and student engagement on learning outcomes. Renken, M.S. Saucier, D.

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