Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Gray is a professor of English and the creator and director of the Writing Center at the College of Coastal Georgia. A slower and more deliberate pace can help teachers and students reflect and act with purpose to encourage “emotional and intellectual resilience” no matter what lies ahead of them (Berg & Seeber, 2017, p. Dr. Jennifer P.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Gray is a professor of English and the creator and director of the Writing Center at the College of Coastal Georgia. A slower and more deliberate pace can help teachers and students reflect and act with purpose to encourage “emotional and intellectual resilience” no matter what lies ahead of them (Berg & Seeber, 2017, p. Dr. Jennifer P.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Math and English levels among incoming freshmen have improved in the past couple of years, university data show. Some high school seniors graduated at the time with stellar grades but below-average test scores in math and English, she said. She is scheduled to graduate this year and plans to pursue a PhD program in English.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Many educators who use the approach, which is often called process tracking, do so as an alternative to running student work through AI detectors, which are prone to falsely accusing students , especially those who dont speak English as their first language. It can create a time-lapse video of the documents creation as well.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Odette guided Esther as she wrote her answers in English. “I She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

Now in use in middle schools and coding academies throughout the country, Blackbird was built from the ground up to address the middle school gap in coding education – in a fun and engaging platform that can be administered by non-technical and technically trained teachers, instructors and parents.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This year I transitioned from teaching English classes in isolation to co-teaching English, science, and technology with another teacher in a pilot program called N.E.W. She is only in her second year of teaching and she is credentialed in English and science. 2 Sharing the Load. Teaching is an exhausting profession.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2017

Brill, an English major starting her senior year at Rice University , says hearing her name butchered by the professor is not exactly insulting, but it does cause discomfort. “It Learning names at the beginning of the term has long been a challenge for instructors—especially when the names are ones professors have never encountered before.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This English teacher created a project-based scenario : The students were attorneys for a law firm, and the teacher is their client, bringing them this challenge: She is thinking about investing in ChatGPT. Here are 5 ways educators are incorporating AI into the classrooms right now: 1.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2025

Rather than leaving me to play Sherlock Holmes, scrutinizing student prose for malfeasance, Pangram’s findings offer transparency to both student and instructor. I never thought I’d learn how to do this in an English class!” Ray, Thank you for your time today. I’m so glad you’re showing us all this.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Successfully trialed in middle schools and coding academies throughout the country, Blackbird’s offering was built from the ground up to address the middle school gap in coding education – in a platform that can be administered by non-technical and technically minded teachers, instructors and parents. Blackbird Education Platform: ?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Reducing friction for non-English speakers: Dr. Anthony Kaziboni, the Head of Research at the University of Johannesburg, teaches students who mostly don’t speak English outside of the classroom. He encourages his students to use ChatGPT for translation assistance, to improve their English writing, and to practice conversation.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

But the rise of alternative education providers that rely on contractors raises the question: Should these instructors be considered employees instead? After legal and administrative fees, about $589,000 will be left and distributed to 1,214 current and former instructors who taught for the company between July 24, 2013 and June 30, 2018.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2021

Used by schools and coding academies throughout the United States, Blackbird was built to address the coding education gap – in a fun and engaging platform that can be administered by non-technical and technically trained teachers, instructors, and parents. – Addresses the “Curriculum Gap” in Computer Science education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2023

More recently, schools began using computer programs to prepare students for upcoming state English and math tests, angering some educators and families who want children to be interacting directly with instructors, Gothamist reported.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

In a face-to-face class, students see the instructor and other students and, even if not interacting with them directly, know they are not alone. But asynchronous courses, and especially asynchronous independent study courses, present a different scenario with challenges for both instructors and students. Who is my instructor?”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Some writing instructors worry, though, that the new tools may tempt colleges to rely too heavily on the technology or even eliminate writing centers entirely. At Middlebury, tutors are also trained to navigate AI policies, which can differ among instructors, Giaimo says. So where does AI leave the writing center?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

It helps instructors deliver cohesive learning experiences through structured content and interactivity. This enables the instructor to assign coursework that keeps their students moving forward on their unique learning path. With Connect, students and instructors are provided with continuous support — in or out of the classroom.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. Small class sizes mean instructors can give individuals assignments on topics relevant to their personal interests. Katie Nielson Voxy is an example of the former.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

He’s also in the classroom (well, a virtual one these days) as a professor of English at Assumption University, where he is also the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence. One of the things that I talk about in the book is the presence of the instructor, and how felt that presence is in the actual space of a classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2017

with Chinese students who want to learn English. Now, in addition to being a full-time mother and a zumbini instructor, I teach English from home 25 hours a week. This model has now come to the American education market with 51Talk (pronounced “five-one-talk”), an online platform that connects educators in the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes. The algorithm worked.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

But the Spanish-speaker says she found the support she needed by enrolling in a dual-language program at the Honors College at Miami Dade College, which helped her to pursue higher education in both her native language and in English. That may be especially true for a college located in a community with high numbers of non-English speakers.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. According to a statement from the National Council of Teachers of English, “In smaller classes students spend less time off-task or disengaged from the work of the class.”.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2021

December 13, 2021— The National Alliance of Black School Educators (NABSE) recently named Audrey Muhammad, college success instructor at Durham Technical Community College in Durham, NC, as the recipient of the 2021 NABSE $10,000 Scholarship Award, which is sponsored by Curriculum Associates. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

I spend a lot of time thinking about how monolingual teachers can support multilingual students and I am actively searching for ways to reduce the isolation my students experience as they begin learning English, and to build a sense of belonging for students in my classes. My students shifted to English as I uttered words in Spanish.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones. He says initial results show that students responded more positively to computer-generated instructors that read as female.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

For example, students in Egypt generally lack access to high-quality textbooks, and those that are available are usually expensive and written in English, not Arabic. the Open Pedagogy Incubator at North Carolina State University brings together a cohort of instructors for a semester of learning about OER practices. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The number of instructors on the platform grew from 1,000 before the outbreak to over 7,000 today, according to Outschool CEO Amir Nathoo. These informal classes, capped at 18 students, are led by instructors who set their own lesson plans, schedules and price. On average, Nathoo says instructors earn about $40 to $60 per hour.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

The elementary English teacher who is using a blended learning approach in her classroom, for example, has come to rely on that cart of fully-charged iPads or Chromebooks that’s rolled into her classroom at 8 a.m., Unfortunately, a lot can go wrong between the time those devices were last used and the English teacher’s first class.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Wyzant tutors serve learners of all ages and backgrounds, offering in-depth guidance on topics including English, language arts, physics, calculus, coding, LSAT test prep, music and more. . Wyzant expertly brings together students and world-class instructors. About IXL Learning .

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

I teach a class for ELL students, some of whom came to the school knowing very little English. I have reached out to my PBL PD instructors for guidance on many occasions. These projects have kept them engaged and excited about content and connected them to their community.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 8, 2025

With the release of AI on a broad scale and the evolving procedural policies for policing and supporting its use in online higher education classrooms, instructor hesitancy to implement AI in ethical and effectual ways is shared by many. AI can considerably improve engagement in the classroom (A. Huang et al.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

Around 6 o’clock on a fall morning in 2018, Jordan sat down at her desk, donned her headset, and logged in to her account with VIPKid , a Beijing-based company that connects native English-speaking teachers like her with children in China for live, online video lessons. Then the marathon began. billion industry by 2022.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s a marked change from the education company’s origins, which, up until about a year ago, catered almost exclusively to students in mainland China, offering one-on-one English classes with tutors from the U.S. There was VIPKid, but also Magic Ears, Qkids, GoGoKid, Whales English, Zebra English and countless others.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Student performance in math and English language arts on spring state test scores in 2023 went up by 2 percentage points from the prior year, highlighting slow academic recovery after the pandemic. District leaders also developed plans in science and English language arts that focus on new approaches to learning to boost student achievement.

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