Instructors Questions Teaching Assistants 
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. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas.
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. Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas.
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Edsurge
JANUARY 7, 2022
The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, What ideas do you have for student accountability? Two common concerns that I’ve come across are that: Grading takes up too much time for instructors, and that.
Edsurge
JUNE 7, 2019
Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. When class is in session, the instructor or an assistant will record which students spoke during class using the app. Instructors can have biases toward picking particular students.
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. But because these online platforms are easy to hide from instructors and are available 24/7, they can be trickier for students and professors to navigate.
Edsurge
JUNE 8, 2022
Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
A Difference of Opinion People are still figuring out what the boundaries of this shiny, new piece of technology are in education, says Stephen Aguilar, an assistant professor at the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. He cautioned that he couldn’t fully replace his human teaching assistants with a chatbot.
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