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. Hartman is an Instructor-ABD in the Special Education Department at Niagara University. Jennifer E. Garland, Ph.

Accessibility 94

Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 94

Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

I respect my instructors’ hard-earned expertise and original work, and I won’t use their work with GenAI tools without their permission. In addition, if instructors’ content appears on platforms that use GenAI, I will inform them where and how it is used. I value transparency. I value collaboration.

Instructors 81

Instructors Critical Thinking Plagiarism Intelligence 81

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. To make the tents more useful, students are then asked to answer a retrieval question on the back of the paper and turn it in at the end of class. “Present students with a multiple choice question.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

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 72

Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 72

Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

I respect my instructors’ hard-earned expertise and original work, and I won’t use their work with GenAI tools without their permission. In addition, if instructors’ content appears on platforms that use GenAI, I will inform them where and how it is used. I value transparency. I value collaboration.

Instructors 66

Instructors Critical Thinking Plagiarism Intelligence 66

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).

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Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? Brill-Wynkoop heard the same pitch back in the early 2000s: Instructors could catch a student turning in a peer’s paper from a previous semester with Turnitin. billion as of June 2025. I trust you.

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 118

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 128

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This project started with a deceptively simple question: What arent our students telling us? I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change. Not because they lacked courage, but because they didnt feel invited to speak.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

The fundamental question becomes: How can educators plan for and deliver instructional content that is relatable and meaningful? Dr. Ana Figueroa is an assistant professor of education at the University of Tampa and the Lead Instructor of the Education Foundations and Human Exceptionalities courses in the undergraduate program.

Assignments 60

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 60

k12

JULY 10, 2025

These are a great chance for your child to ask questions, get clarification, and interact with their teachers, just like in a physical classroom. Support One-to-One Meetings: Some students are more comfortable asking questions in private rather than during group sessions. Encourage your child to participate!

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Some questioned whether they even belonged on a college campus, said UC Riverside Dean of Students Christine Mata. And the university introduced a freshman course with tips on identifying their interests, participating in campus events and even asking instructors for help.

Math 88

Math English Lecturing High School 88

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Use these engaging questions and thought experiments to get middle schoolers to open up while practicing writing skills. 10 Informative 8th Grade Writing Prompts When you assign informative writing prompts to your 8th grade class, you’re letting them be the instructors! That’s where journal writing prompts come in!

Writing 52

Writing Grades Middle School Middle School 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. I think there's less willingness to just do the thing because somebody told you to do it.” — Sarah Z.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 197

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2023

That was the research question posed in the latest Community College Survey of Student Engagement, a large-scale survey of more than 82,000 students across 181 community colleges. When you’re face to face, it’s a lot easier for an instructor to say, ‘OK, we’re going to work in teams,’” she explained.

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Instructors Students Assignments Student Engagement 190

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I Probably some people look the questions up online because it's an online test a lot of the time. For Meeks, the longtime instructor, this means students are missing out on the whole point of college. “I

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. Most teachers dedicate significant time and energy to their instructor role, explaining complex concepts and processes and modeling specific strategies and skills. I encourage teachers to consider the following question.

Blended Learning 498

Blended Learning Feedback Learning Instructors 498

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

As teachers embrace their new roles as designers, instructors, and facilitators of online learning, many are grappling the details associated with teaching remotely. Instead of simply disseminating resources and assignments and collecting student work, consider the following questions: How can I use the online space to connect learners?

Teaching 545

Teaching Assignments Discussions Communication 545

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

When a student with Autism arrives in the classroom this changes how interactions occur between a neurodiverse (ND) student and a neurotypical (NT) instructor. These variances can be challenging in the classroom relating to communication and emotional reactions between the ND instructor and the predominant group of NT students.

Instructors 122

Instructors Learning Styles Students Communication 122

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

When a student with Autism arrives in the classroom this changes how interactions occur between a neurodiverse (ND) student and a neurotypical (NT) instructor. These variances can be challenging in the classroom relating to communication and emotional reactions between the ND instructor and the predominant group of NT students.

Instructors 109

Instructors Learning Styles Students Communication 109

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly depending on the subject matter and type of assignment. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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Instructors Assignments Writing History 148

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2020

Here are a few tips and tricks to support student success in online education if you’re an instructor learning this new way of teaching. In a normal classroom setting students and educators are able to interact seamlessly, asking questions and promoting discussion. Find ways to be interactive.

Instructors 353

Instructors Students Discussions Online Learning 353

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question. Schoeder, 2024).

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 113

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days. To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?

Grades 267

Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 267

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

This edition, which surveyed over 3,000 higher-ed students and instructors and over 1,000 K-12 teachers and administrators, found similarities among higher-ed instructors and K-12 teachers optimism for GenAI specifically. test and quiz questions) (34 percent), animations (e.g., textbook readings) (30 percent) and visuals (e.g.,

Instructors 293

Instructors Textbooks Academic Integrity Coaching 293

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

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002).

Feedback 106

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 106

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2022

Instructors often don’t know how to accept help from the instructional coaches, even when they would like to. Librarians regularly complain that they spend more time clearing jams from printers instead of assisting students with reference questions. However, clearing that paper jam can help the student see the librarian as a resource.

Coaching 282

Coaching Instructors Assignments Questions 282

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The guide contains examples of how some educators are teaching with ChatGPT, along with a series of frequently-asked questions that may help guide teachers as they seek to strike a balance between accepting AI’s presence and an over-reliance on such tools. You can take these ideas and make them your own.”

Teaching 275

Teaching Quizzes Exams English 275

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

When students can see how the skills they’re learning in the classroom apply to various careers, this helps them answer the all-important question: “Why do I have to learn this?” Schools need to find alternative paths for recruiting CTE instructors. After the pandemic, the shortage of qualified CTE instructors has only grown.

Instructors 291

Instructors Math Skills High School 291

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

I began our synchronous session by addressing frequently asked questions about this model. In this post, I will share answers to some of those questions. In my Art of Blended Learning Online Course this week, we continued our work on the playlist model. Q1: How Long Should Students Work on a Playlist?

Blended Learning 436

Blended Learning Feedback Universal Design Art 436

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 257

Middle School Middle School Instructors Education 257

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

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. We also noticed that they started engaging with each other more, talking through issues and asking each other questions before turning to the instructor.”.

Accessibility 291

Accessibility Instructors Students Participation 291

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

Yet as instructors in the new world of online education, we have access to ever-increasing amounts of data—from recorded lecture videos, electronically submitted homework, discussion forums, and online quizzes and assessments—that may give us insights into individual student learning.

Teaching 213

Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 213

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

On the Advanced Latin Reading Comprehension exam, one VHS Learning student answered 40 of 40 questions correctly, earning a gold medal and a summa cum laude certificate. The NLE is a test given annually to Latin students across the United States and around the world. The NLE was taken by more than 100,000 students in 2022.

Exams 257

Exams Instructors Learning Students 257

Faculty Focus

MARCH 13, 2025

When students evaluations are viewed by instructors as a type of formative assessment to be used as a tool for instructional improvement, mid-semester feedback surveys allow instructors to immediately respond to their students needs (Chapman & Joines, 2017; Diamond, 2004). 2002; Spencer & Schmelkin, 2002).

Feedback 93

Feedback Questions Course Evaluations Evaluation 93

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

What questions do you have about these challenges in the context of your own teaching experience? During our discussion, a crucial question was raised: “In terms of teacher training, should schools begin with UDL or blended learning?” Have you encountered similar challenges in your own classroom or school?

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Motivation 460