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Teaching at a Small Private College? Take our AdviceĀ 

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Based on this experience of shock, mourning, and rebirth, we have advice to offer colleagues, especially those in teacher education. It is no secret that enrollment in educator preparation programs nationwide has decreased by one-third to one-half over the last ten years. These circumstances had nothing to do with her competency.

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Teaching at a Small Private College? Take our AdviceĀ 

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Based on this experience of shock, mourning, and rebirth, we have advice to offer colleagues, especially those in teacher education. It is no secret that enrollment in educator preparation programs nationwide has decreased by one-third to one-half over the last ten years. These circumstances had nothing to do with her competency.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

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The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a cloud of uncertainty over higher education. 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. We’re now in a situation where work, life and education are starting to blur.

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16 Education Podcasts to Check Out In 2017

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It’s a golden age of education podcasts. Teachers, professors, education innovators, and tech skeptics have switched on their microphones to share their insights and analysis—and you’ll find plenty of lively characters and fresh voices via your earbuds. That includes crashing a frat party—you’ll want to check out that episode).

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

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He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. ā€œI I just could make a bigger difference in education,ā€ he says. Education research wasn’t new to Wieman, who these days is an emeritus professor of physics and of education at Stanford University.

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U. of Florida Asks Students to Use App to Report Profs Who Donā€˜t Teach In Person

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Emulation of police states is not a good look for a university devoted to the education of democratic citizens. Emulation of police states is not a good look for a university devoted to the education of democratic citizens,ā€ wrote Daniel A. What sort of message does this send to our students?ā€ Richardson.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Andersen, who has been teaching remotely for a decade, sees a certain irony in the sudden demand that adjuncts pick up distance education skills on the fly. That can make colleges reluctant to invest in training adjuncts to teach online, she says. Adjuncts’ current worries aren’t limited to professional matters, of course.