Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Without adequate reading, students will be reluctant, or unable, to participate in class discussions and conversations for lack of understanding and fear of not measuring-up to peers (Severe, E., Subsequently, instructor facilitated classroom conversations intended to enhance understanding of course content may stagnate and falter.

Instructors 82

Instructors Assignments Participation Students 82

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Yet that discomfort also raises opportunities to question prevailing assumptions about how teaching and learning occurs. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards. For many, the recent leap to remote instruction felt rushed, chaotic and disorganized.

Lecturing 207

Lecturing Questions Learning Attention 207

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Perhaps they are nervous about asking questions because they don’t want to be seen as a student who doesn’t understand the material. However, I have learned that many students tend to be reluctant to reach out for a variety of reasons.

Instructors 120

Instructors Syllabus Attention Teaching Assistants 120

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

For many students, participating in online class discussions feels like a chore—a box to check off for participation points rather than a lively dialogue. “I He’s taking three online courses this semester, all of which require him to participate in online discussion forums as part of his grade.

Instructors 147

Instructors Discussions Course Evaluations Writing 147

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

Last semester, students participated from across 13 states, including California, Texas, Arkansas, Illinois, New York, Washington, and Kansas. Since the program was held virtually, students would send their final designs to the instructor, who would send them to print on the Replicator+, and then mail them to the students.

Accessibility 294

Accessibility Instructors Students Participation 294

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

Hybrid Learning 141

Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 141

eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Successfully trialed in middle schools and coding academies throughout the country, Blackbird’s offering was built from the ground up to address the middle school gap in coding education – in a platform that can be administered by non-technical and technically minded teachers, instructors and parents.

Middle School 258

Middle School Middle School Instructors Education 258

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2023

So, by adding gamification elements during teaching sessions, schools can significantly increase their participation and engagement levels. Students will find it hard to resist participating when a leaderboard out front announces current individual scores. Conversely, instructors can view or edit modules and launch learning apps.

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Gamification Interactive Learning Disabilities Learning 328

eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Ralabate (2016) gives us five fundamental questions that allow teachers to begin to transform their practice. As teachers embrace this transformation, generative AI can be a thought partner in utilizing the five fundamental questions efficiently. Implementation of UDL requires rethinking the development and planning of lessons.

Education 306

Education Evaluation Accessibility Science 306

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Perhaps they are nervous about asking questions because they don’t want to be seen as a student who doesn’t understand the material. However, I have learned that many students tend to be reluctant to reach out for a variety of reasons.

Instructors 96

Instructors Syllabus Attention Teaching Assistants 96

Teach Hub

MARCH 4, 2024

How do we break this silence and boost student participation in our classroom? Here we’ll dive into strategies to encourage more active participation and examine why participation matters to students and educators. By involving students in the process, active learning can boost participation and engagement.

Participation 103

Participation Students Discussions Quizzes 103

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

Faculty should be prepared to answer key questions from leadership related to crisis prevention and intervention in the online learning environment: What training have you received in crisis prevention and intervention specific to online education? Mental Health in the College Classroom: Best Practices for Instructors. link] Costa, S.

Instructors 128

Instructors Counselling Confidentiality Communication 128

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Our instructors are subject matter experts who help guide their exploration by providing them with scenarios and simulations to solve. In one esports class, the instructors teach the students basic techniques associated with manipulating the characters in the video game. Every day we get closer to answering those questions.

Skills 272

Skills Interdisciplinary Middle School Middle School 272

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Enacting equity pedagogy as an essential component of multicultural education (Banks & Banks, 1995) requires instructors to become change agents. Be open and welcome student questions. Examine course syllabi to make sure policies (late work, absence, participation grades, etc.)

Accessibility 86

Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 86

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For many faculty, that last question is causing the most friction around campuses. For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom.

Teaching 208

Teaching Instructors Knowledge Writing 208

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s gratifying to see improvements in student proficiency and attendance as well as increasing parent participation in the Gadsden Independent School District (ISD),” said Courtney Lewis, Vice President of Tutoring Services at Carnegie Learning. Families have a direct dial number to call the liaison directly for support.”

Math 269

Math Instructors Learning Language 269

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The teaching experts who sponsored the training hope it will prepare college instructors to become “advocates,” empowering them to explain and defend the rigor of this way of teaching calculus to skeptical scientists from other departments. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. the instructor asked.

Math 218

Math Instructors Science STEM 218

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Students need to engage actively with challenging tasks, and work in groups talking about learning, trying solutions to problems, recording observations and getting feedback in the moment from the instructor. work with a partner to light a bulb using the materials provided for you).

Science 130

Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Set video to “on” for both host and participant 2. Mute participants upon entry (otherwise there will be a lot of background noise). Use Chat One advantage of online, live teaching versus teaching in a classroom is that any student can ask a question in the text chat at any time without “interrupting” the lecturer.

Teaching 207

Teaching Lecturing Instructors Disabilities 207

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2020

A new “playbook” aims to strike the middle ground between offering higher ed instructors and institutions too much information about teaching remotely and offering too little. Disclosure: EdSurge is a participant in the network. Course Design Instructors should ask themselves: What do you want students to learn in your course?

Course Evaluations 191

Course Evaluations Instructors Evaluation Universal Design 191

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2024

Faculty should be prepared to answer key questions from leadership related to crisis prevention and intervention in the online learning environment: What training have you received in crisis prevention and intervention specific to online education? Mental Health in the College Classroom: Best Practices for Instructors. link] Costa, S.

Instructors 109

Instructors Counselling Confidentiality Communication 109

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

As professors and K-12 teachers adjust to the sudden move to online teaching, one question keeps coming up: How much of class time should be done live—known in education parlance as “synchronous” teaching—and how much should be done so that students can do the work at their convenience—or “asynchronous” teaching.

Teaching 218

Teaching Instructors Distance Learning Lecturing 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

To stave off this potential defection, how can we instructors promote virtual community? One of the most empirically supported best practices of online education is for the instructor to “be present.” In an online-only world, it’s imperative for students to see you as a human being, not merely as an instructor.

Instructors 208

Instructors Lecturing Course Evaluations Feedback 208

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

More positivity reported about participating in learning. Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors. When students feel more comfortable with all their peers and their teacher, they’ll likely feel more relaxed engaging and asking questions. Topics are Explored In-Depth.

Achievement 268

Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 268

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online. And now that campuses are back from pandemic restrictions, many instructors are trying to incorporate those remote practices into their in-person teaching.

Teaching 217

Teaching Lecturing Blended Courses Instructors 217

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2021

For questions, email askatechteacher@gmail.com. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Students join a Google Classroom-based class and meet weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. The Tech-infused Teacher. Certificate.

Instructors 31

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 31

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Once onboard, those instructors participated in three different professional learning dates, plus additional ones that were added during the school year. Our furniture partner basically didn’t even question it; they told us it was completely possible. Get teachers onboard and acclimated early.

Learning Spaces 280

Learning Spaces Learning Elementary School Elementary School 280

Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

The tech itself raises a host of challenging questions. All participants saw the same slides, but with one of four different voices: “happy female, sad female, happy male, and sad male.” He points to research that shows that some students learn better from male instructors, while others learn better from female ones.

Lecturing 189

Lecturing Instructors English Textbooks 189

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. What a good question. I came to alternative assessment alongside many other instructors as COVID-19 forced seasoned instructors to grapple with assessment policies.

Grades 64

Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 64

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

That vantage point gives her insight about what’s keeping students from feeling fully invested in showing up for class ready to truly participate in the learning process. Some schools do, but a lot of schools generally leave absence management up to individual instructors. Can you say more about that? So I asked my students.

Students 202

Students Instructors Lecturing Participation 202

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 25, 2025

What is Peer-to-peer Learning Peer-to-peer learning is where individuals learn from and with each other rather than relying on a traditional teacher or instructor. P articipants exchange ideas, explain concepts, ask questions, and provide feedback. Dependence on Participation : Success hinges on everyone contributing.

Feedback 156

Feedback Instructors Learning Critical Thinking 156

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. I loved it,” she says, noting that the students got to know each other by asking questions like what they planned to do next year.

Exams 205

Exams Instructors Students Lecturing 205

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2021

Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK? It carries with it the question of, what’s benign? How Harmless?

Ethics 207

Ethics Knowledge Testing Learning 207

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Student joins a Google Classroom-based class and meets weekly with instructor to discuss class activities and assignments. Educators participate in this three-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop as they learn to use widely-available digital tools to help their students develop their inner writer. We wrote the books. Certificate.

Instructors 158

Instructors Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Participation 158

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation. And that’s what instructors strive to offer their service-member students at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, which looks out over Monterey Bay. “We can’t teach them if they don’t come back.” What propels a person to apply that effort?

Motivation 214

Motivation Language Languages Learning 214

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

We’re not against tech, but the question is ‘How do we use it thoughtfully?’” — Wendy Brill-Wynkoop, president of the Faculty Association of California Community Colleges While California is the furthest along, it’s the only state where such measures are being considered. That’s nuts. It’s a fast-moving train. The measure has stalled for now.

Teachers 217

Teachers Education Instructors Language 217

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

My students talk more than they used to in class because they know I will ask the same driving question about every topic throughout the unit. When we commit to participating in a culture of continuous learning, we are living out phrases like, “It’s okay not to know,” “Everyone has things they are still learning,” or ,“We all make mistakes.”

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Education Schools Math Science 312