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Teaching Without a Self

Faculty Focus

Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen. Students become not coerced performers of outcomes, but a voluntary community, engaged with the instructor in shared learning.

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Teaching Without a Self

Faculty Focus

Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen. Students become not coerced performers of outcomes, but a voluntary community, engaged with the instructor in shared learning.

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Lessons From Flipped Classrooms and Flipped Failures

Edsurge

It isn’t foolproof though, and in a new book Talbert gives a frank look into his classroom experiences, and his tips on how to avoid flipped failure. If you read the book, I describe kind of a large amount of failure with implementing that class in the first place, not because of the structure, but because of the way that I had approached it.

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Evidence Is Mounting That Calculus Should Be Changed. Will Instructors Heed It?

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Failure could mean potential biologists, mathematicians or engineers being pushed out of the field. Instructors may still cling to lecture models, Kramer says, perhaps because “it helps their ego that they get to be the sage in front of a bunch of students professing how awesome they personally are.”

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What the F? Grading strategies for early career teachers

eSchool News

Having a philosophical basis for grading helps instructors explain grades, their meaning, and their value to students, who may then see the grade as less arbitrary.Two common approaches to further mitigate this arbitrary nature include normative-based grading and criterion- or standards-based grading.

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The Failure of Fast Education

Edsurge

The instructors at these emergent programs are my peers. To deliver on this value promise of cheap, fast, and aimed at employment, something’s got to give. And I’m worried that the “something” is quality. To be clear, I don’t mean quality of instruction. They are, by and large, competent designers. Many are competent teachers.

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Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? A New Analysis Dives Into the Research

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Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

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