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

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My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. By implementing this hands-on approach, I hoped that the students would not only deepen their own STEAM understanding, but also gain the confidence and inspiration to effectively teach these critical subjects to their future students.

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Lessons From Flipped Classrooms and Flipped Failures

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Or, more specifically, it was the way he was teaching. He describes it as a new philosophy of teaching. 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. Well, I think ’flipped failure’ looks like instructional failure.

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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. Looking through a collection of teaching portfolios by her colleagues helped reassure her that she could redesign her course while preserving what worked about the classroom experience.

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. In other words, we need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning. It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed.

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The Pandemic Adds a Lot of Constraints for Schools. That Opens the Door to Creativity.

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Teachers are moving online without feeling the confidence, preparedness, and support to effectively teach in this completely different way. It’s especially scary when we consider that our failures can equate to student failures. Teaching during a global pandemic certainly created several obstacles for educators.

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How AI can transform lesson planning and assessment

eSchool News

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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

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The concept of gradual release of responsibility is second nature to me when working with students in grades K-12, but in my new role teaching graduate students in an education technology program, I am struggling to model so many of the practices I expect these teachers to use in their own classrooms.

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