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What Homeschooling During COVID-19 Taught Me About My College Teaching

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Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. When it came time to do his assigned poetry lesson, he decided to write it on—you guessed it—Minecraft. I have felt like a failure some of the time. They read Minecraft books and played a Minecraft tag game outside.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

They face pressures in their research, service, and increasingly in their teaching that the pandemic has made almost unbearable, and there seems to be no end in sight when it comes to the new tools, technologies, tips, and programs that faculty developers are rolling out to “support” their career advancement.

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Motivational Force: Building a Foundation for Student Success

Faculty Focus

Students with sufficient margin between these competing forces have the capacity to take on new challenges, including the hard work of learning; students with insufficient margin fall into overwhelm and have a higher rate of failure. We undertook this exercise in almost every one of our 15 weeks. References Ash, S. L., & Clayton, P.

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Getting Started: A Basic 10 Point Guide to Launching an Academic Career

Faculty Focus

Here, then, are 10 very basic, practical strategies for new faculty to consider during their early exploratory quests in the profession, based upon my experience of faculty development over the past 40 years. However, institutions vary in their commitment to faculty development.

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Motivational Force: Building a Foundation for Student Success

Faculty Focus

Students with sufficient margin between these competing forces have the capacity to take on new challenges, including the hard work of learning; students with insufficient margin fall into overwhelm and have a higher rate of failure. We undertook this exercise in almost every one of our 15 weeks. References Ash, S. L., & Clayton, P.

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Getting Started: A Basic 10 Point Guide to Launching an Academic Career

Faculty Focus

Here, then, are 10 very basic, practical strategies for new faculty to consider during their early exploratory quests in the profession, based upon my experience of faculty development over the past 40 years. However, institutions vary in their commitment to faculty development.