Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

A faculty vision of inclusive pedagogy informed by equity and social justice transcends bias and makes diversity functional and beneficial to all students. Enacting equity pedagogy as an essential component of multicultural education (Banks & Banks, 1995) requires instructors to become change agents.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. 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. My system improved. My system improved.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it. Janell Blunt , an associate professor of psychology at Anderson University in Indiana, uses personal mini-whiteboards with her college students in every class. It’s crickets.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

In summary Colleges and universities renew Turnitin subscriptions year after year even though its flawed detectors are expensive and require students to let the company keep their papers forever. Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them?

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Students in higher education also deserve nurturing spaces that focus on utilizing their personalized strengths and needs to foster increased academic and social development. The fundamental question becomes: How can educators plan for and deliver instructional content that is relatable and meaningful?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Students in higher education also deserve nurturing spaces that focus on utilizing their personalized strengths and needs to foster increased academic and social development. The fundamental question becomes: How can educators plan for and deliver instructional content that is relatable and meaningful?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. They need tools from many fields to tackle these issues. Yang et al.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Virtual classrooms are now a trusted and permanent part of the K-12 landscape, offering flexibility and customization to help students thrive. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. The good news?

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Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

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 8th Grade Social-Emotional Writing Prompts Social-emotional learning is a way for students to find their place in the world around them while staying in touch with their own wants and needs. What would you do?

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Writing Grades Middle School Middle School 52

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

In summary Five years after COVID shut down most California high schools, today’s college students describe a difficult transition to adulthood, marked by fear, loss and a lack of preparation. Across California students grappled with transitioning to college during the pandemic. In 2020 32% fell into the bottom tier.

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Math English Lecturing High School 88

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

But there is a disconnect between the skills that students are being taught and those that employers require, and we face the stark prospect that one-third of jobs in 2020 will require skills that aren’t common today. Salesforce recently unveiled Trailhead for Students , a free digital learning platform and community.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

The latest data on the nation’s college and university enrollment shows that online is steadily climbing its way up to more than a third of the student population—as face-to-face continues to plummet. Today, online students represent 31.6 higher education students. They rose 5.6 percent from 2015 to 2016 to reach 6.4

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Achievement Instructors Online Learning History 293

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Students were like moths to a flame. We know we still have Google and everything, but posing direct questions to you just made so much more sense. 2017 Equivalent: These days Typing Instructor ($19.99) is top dog but with plenty of solid online options that are free, we say try ‘em all. The bulbous form. Get it gumshoes. .

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Teachers Gamification Internet Math 289

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Encouraging students to complete work outside of class has always been a struggle. But many college professors say it has gotten even harder in recent years as students prioritize their mental health, have trouble adhering to deadlines and are more skeptical of the purpose of homework. Teaching The Why Sarah Z.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2023

Campuses are back open as the COVID-19 pandemic wanes, but plenty of students continue to take classes online — especially at community colleges. But are these online students as engaged as those in traditional classes? There’s still a lot of students taking online courses, but they're just wanting more interactions.”

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Instructors Students Assignments Student Engagement 189

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. In this class, I mostly saw students following along closely, and taking notes. But it was just one student, and most seemed to be paying attention.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2020

For students and educators who are comfortable with in-person learning and instruction, this rush to online education may be overwhelming. Fortunately, we live in a digital era where both students and educators are familiar with digital tools. Related content: 3 considerations for remote learning. Find ways to be interactive.

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Instructors Students Discussions Online Learning 353

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 can help!

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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. How does this impact the classroom when the ND academic is the expert, and the NT is the enrolled student?

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Instructors Learning Styles Students Communication 123

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. The LMS becomes the space where we engage students in learning. Just as the physical classroom is not simply used to give students information or collect their work.

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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. How does this impact the classroom when the ND academic is the expert, and the NT is the enrolled student?

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Instructors Learning Styles Students Communication 110

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., 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.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 114

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

The field trip was part of the Foundation’s annual enrichment trip centered on exposing students to burgeoning aerospace and technology careers. So, how did the Crockett Foundation’s students, most of whom attend Title I schools and live in historically under-resourced communities, achieve this sort of success?

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Skills Interdisciplinary Middle School Middle School 249

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

January 14, 2022 — The Steam Foundation and MakerBot have teamed up to bring 3D printing to more students across the U.S. Founded by Aadhav Prabu and Akshar Raikanti, The Steam Foundation is a California-based nonprofit with a mission to make STEAM education equally accessible to all students in kindergarten through 12 th grade.

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Accessibility Instructors Students Participation 282

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Boston – July 28, 2022 – Two VHS Learning students earned top honors on the 2022 National Latin Exam (NLE), with one achieving a perfect score and earning a gold medal. Both students took VHS Learning’s Advanced Placement® Latin course, which is the equivalent of a first semester college Latin course. About VHS Learning.

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Exams Instructors Learning Students 254

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

One of my biggest goals as a technology instructor is to teach my students skills and provide them with tools that I feel will best stoke their curiosity and prepare them for the world outside of the classroom. I particularly love using these types of resources with upper elementary students.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT a little more than six months ago, students have quickly figured out how to get the free AI chatbot to do their homework for them. 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

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Understanding the connection between class size and student achievement, as well as teacher retentions, is critical to the future of our educational system. Research into the impact of class size on student achievement has been ongoing for decades. The Link Between Class Size and Achievement.

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Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 265

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days. Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well? It is essential that teachers have a clear and supportive grading system in place to address the scrutiny of today’s students, parents, and other stakeholders.

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Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 262

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Students these days are distracted. That question is the topic of a new book out this month by James Lang, called “ Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It. It’s a surprisingly optimistic take on the topic—it goes out of its way not to blame students or urge blanket tech bans.

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Instructors Attention Education Lecturing 218

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.,

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Instructors Textbooks Academic Integrity Coaching 284

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability? How do we get students to do pre-class work without giving a grade to everything? So how do you get students to complete the tasks that will help them better engage in a class session?

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2022

Even with a classroom full of students, teachers often work in isolation from peers. 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.

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Coaching Instructors Assignments Questions 275

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. Q1: How Long Should Students Work on a Playlist? In my Art of Blended Learning Online Course this week, we continued our work on the playlist model. the online station).

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