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Students Are Distracted. What Can Educators Do About It?

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You may have seen Lang’s writings about teaching before. He has been writing for The Chronicle of Higher Education for more than 20 years, most recently as a monthly teaching columnist, and he has bylines in popular publications including the Boston Globe and Time magazine. Can you talk about some of your research methods?

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

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Until one day, you find yourself studying as a preservice teacher, enrolled in a mathematics content course that you are required to pass to obtain your teaching degree. We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada.

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Teaching Through a Lens of Compassion: Strengthening Pre-service Teachers’ Math Muscles

Faculty Focus

Until one day, you find yourself studying as a preservice teacher, enrolled in a mathematics content course that you are required to pass to obtain your teaching degree. We teach a mathematics content course for elementary preservice teachers (PSTs) in a graduate-level teacher education program in Canada.

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Using Cogenerative Dialogues for Learner-Centered Teaching

Scholarly Teacher

Keywords: Teaching Methods, Pedagogy, Student Learning Introduction Staring out to the sea of questioning faces, I paused and asked the question again still no response from the 22 students staring back at me. The characteristics of quality teaching are often ambiguous. Image courtesy of Wix. 2019; Smith, 2013).

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How to Become a Citizen Scientist

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Critical Thinking and Scientific Literacy Exposure to the scientific community and its methods enhances students’ and amateur volunteer scientists’ approaches toward specific problems. Author bio Sophia is an online ESL/EFL instructor and a passionate Science educator. Copyright ©2023 askatechteacher.com – All rights reserved.

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When Students Don’t Like What They’re Doing: Applications for Group Work

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When I look at the various articles and comments in the Teaching Professor collection, group work continues to be a regular topic. It’s proved itself an instructional method of equal parts possibilities and problems. This article originally appeared in The Teaching Professor on July 15, 2019. Teaching Sociology, 47 (2), 116–134.

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Six Powerful Ways to Cultivate Student Attention and Promote Student Success 

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I always imagined that as my experience with teaching grew, I would be able to better motivate students and help focus my students. Research in the areas of cognitive psychology and neuroscience offer a fundamental understanding of attention as the first step in putting information into our working memory (Kahneman, 1973).

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