eSchool News
APRIL 7, 2021
Only 11 states currently verify that all teacher candidates planning to teach either elementary or special education have learned the most effective methods for teaching children how to read–arguably the most important skill these teachers need, according to new data from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ).
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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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.
Edsurge
JANUARY 10, 2023
Or read a transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I Now, I know from reading comments on social media about the first episode we did in this series that some people argue that students have always done this.
Faculty Focus
MAY 20, 2025
In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. It seems as if a quick scan of one of the assigned pages is the best effort.
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. The responses always yield the same results. The power of feedback. 77, 81–112. Valiandes, S.
Edsurge
JANUARY 7, 2022
Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students. Two common concerns that I’ve come across are that: Grading takes up too much time for instructors, and that.
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