Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. I continued this pattern in college, focused solely on grades and making my parents proud.

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 90

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

With over 20 years of teaching experience, Darren Zink, along with Megan Holloway (3 years) and Paige Kanaly (5 years), share a group of 90 students and help them connect what they’re learning in the classroom with the real world. Thank you for your exceptional contributions to education and for setting a high standard for others to follow.

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Education Interdisciplinary Middle School Middle School 130

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Music Beyond Borders With my third grade students, I integrate the study of America into our music class. In our school, we use Chromebooks in grades three and up and iPads in grades PreK-2. I have seen other schools offer this class and it is wildly popular. But what about the other 80 percent?

Teaching 132

Teaching Teaching Philosophy Assignments Exams 132

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Then they read and discuss a poem, “What You Missed that Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade,” which starts like this: Mrs. Nelson explained how to stand still and listen to the wind, how to find meaning in pumping gas, how peeling potatoes can be a form of prayer. She’s trying to show them her teaching philosophy, she explains.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 178

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

It’s often said that teaching and learning doesn’t always take place in the classroom—some of the most important lessons are learned on the playground, in the street, on the job or somewhere else. The same is true for educators, whose teaching philosophies are often shaped by moments that happened when they weren't in front of the classroom.

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Coaching English Students Teaching Philosophy 148

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

But the exercise also determined that flipped learning wasn’t just another teaching strategy competing with other models, such as project- or mastery-based learning, but rather a kind of bait to get instructors interested in broader teaching philosophies. Think of flipped as the operating system of education.

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Lecturing Learning Teaching Philosophy Active Learning 155