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Lessons From Flipped Classrooms and Flipped Failures

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Robert Talbert would get the nagging, unsettling sense that the lectures he gave in his Calculus courses just weren’t sinking in. “I 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. The feeling would crop up every so often.

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Getting pre-service teachers comfortable using and teaching with STEAM tools

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Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures. This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators.

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How AI can transform lesson planning and assessment

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Between budgetary constraints, bandwidth crunches, and a constantly changing syllabus, teachers have their hands full when it comes to structuring and building their class’s lessons and lectures. By distilling a lecture’s knowledge into a set of handy flashcards, teachers can ensure their students’ progress and performance.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

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She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent. But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent.

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How to Engage Your Students With the 12-Minute Rule and Quizzes They’re Meant to Fail

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But failure is the whole point of the exercise. One of the failure points of international marketing is human beings’ inability to understand, appreciate, and exploit cultural differences. Failure is the point of the exercise,” he says. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right.

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Why Is It so Hard to Teach K-12 Educators How to Personalize Learning?

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My official title is “lecturer,” but that is a far cry from how I teach. It’s easier to provide a syllabus with structured projects and assignments that have assigned due dates and clear grading parameters. Redesigning this course is going to be a journey of reflection and possible failure, but I am hopeful.

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