Faculty Focus

JULY 24, 2025

The Challenge of Hierarchy I have been asking myself the following questions with increasing frequency as I grapple with teaching international cohorts of learners: How can I move away from being considered the sole source of knowledge in the classroom? Most of these students have trained as clinicians or hold degrees in the hard sciences.

Ethics

Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. Drawing from my experience teaching across subjects at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE, I want to share real ways teachers can build and run cross-subject courses that truly help students handle today’s complex world.

Interdisciplinary

Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

We can teach students to critically analyze AI-assisted work and promote authentic learning as we do. Take class time or record a video for your online class to teach your students what you expect them to do with AI for each assignment, what not to do, and what you’ll be looking for in their finished product.

Critical Thinking

Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. Drawing from my experience teaching across subjects at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE, I want to share real ways teachers can build and run cross-subject courses that truly help students handle today’s complex world.

Interdisciplinary

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. I came to alternative assessment alongside many other instructors as COVID-19 forced seasoned instructors to grapple with assessment policies.

Grades

Faculty Focus

JULY 24, 2025

The Challenge of Hierarchy I have been asking myself the following questions with increasing frequency as I grapple with teaching international cohorts of learners: How can I move away from being considered the sole source of knowledge in the classroom? Most of these students have trained as clinicians or hold degrees in the hard sciences.

Ethics

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. 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.

Multiple Choice Questions

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2025

In order to best prepare our college students for their professional careers, professors and instructors should foster social and emotional learning in their learning spaces. Community is important in every classroom, in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous, as it is both a benefit to the students and the instructors. Dr. Raglena T.

Classroom Management

Faculty Focus

JULY 27, 2025

In order to best prepare our college students for their professional careers, professors and instructors should foster social and emotional learning in their learning spaces. Community is important in every classroom, in-person, synchronous, and asynchronous, as it is both a benefit to the students and the instructors. Dr. Raglena T.

Classroom Management

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. Teacher Roles in Modern Education The role of teachers in modern education is evolving rapidly, necessitating a shift from traditional instructor-led models to more facilitative approaches.

Hybrid Learning

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

After years of teaching, I noticed how often students carried academic, emotional, and personal burdens without sharing them. From Curiosity to Campuswide Inquiry The project began in two large general education courses I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: FSHN 101: The Science of Food and FSHN 120: Contemporary Nutrition.

Disabilities

Faculty Focus

APRIL 27, 2025

Our professional science masters (PSM) in biotechnology degree is designed for working professionals, offering primarily online and evening courses that emphasize applied learning and professional development.

STEM

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom. We need to find ways to teach, learn, and find the often-elusive work-life balance to slow down and meet faculty needs and improve student engagement. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes.

eLearning

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom. We need to find ways to teach, learn, and find the often-elusive work-life balance to slow down and meet faculty needs and improve student engagement. Small teaching online: Applying learning science in online classes.

eLearning

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? As teaching and learning increasingly shifted online throughout the early 2000s and 2010s, Turnitin became more embedded in classes. This year, the college paid almost $47,000. billion as of June 2025.

Plagiarism

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Encourage your child to listen to teacher feedback; if they feel something isn’t working, teach them how to share that respectfully. For example, how would they use a science concept to solve a problem at home? Encourage Feedback and Conversation: Feedback is key to growth, both for students and teachers.

Online Learning

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Earlier in my teaching career, my first-day-of-class deck included a slide about my professional and personal history to build trust and transparency. I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college.

Teaching

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Earlier in my teaching career, my first-day-of-class deck included a slide about my professional and personal history to build trust and transparency. I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college.

Teaching

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

If you could teach a class on anything, what would it be? 10 Informative 8th Grade Writing Prompts When you assign informative writing prompts to your 8th grade class, you’re letting them be the instructors! 10 Math and Science Prompts for Interdisciplinary Writing Writing in math and science can be as easy as pi!

Writing

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

She might know the theory behind data science but not how to use Tableau. This summer, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced a partnership with 30 community colleges to offer a two-semester course, designed by Apple engineers and educators, to teach students to build apps using Apple’s programming language, Swift.

Skills

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

In 2017, this was especially true while taking a computer science course on data structures and algorithms. Meanwhile, in other classes and conversations, I learned about critiques on the educational system, and I became aware that my attitude towards the computer science class was an issue many instructors and students grapple with.

Study

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

What couldn’t super-spy Carmen Sandiego teach us? . You knew you were in for an amazing science class when the sub wheeled in this winning combo. Bill Nye the Science Guy? Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing v. Mario Teaches Typing. Of course, for those teaching, the memories may not be quite as fond. . Undoubtedly.

Teachers

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).

Instructors

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This year I transitioned from teaching English classes in isolation to co-teaching English, science, and technology with another teacher in a pilot program called N.E.W. When I initially pitched the program concept to my principal, I emphasized the co-teaching component. Teaching is an exhausting profession.

Teaching

eSchool News

JULY 14, 2021

PORTLAND, July 13, 2021 – Blackbird, bridging the gap in Computer Science curriculum, today announced the availability of their K-12 Computer Science Pathway, designed to help school districts prepare students with the computer programming skills necessary to enter the workforce – or continue their education at the university level.

Science

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has released a new guide to help educators navigate the many ways AI can be used in teaching and learning. Reducing friction for non-English speakers: Dr. Anthony Kaziboni, the Head of Research at the University of Johannesburg, teaches students who mostly don’t speak English outside of the classroom.

Teaching

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. Hey, teach computer science.

Science

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

The Computer Science professor has helped them discover the full potential of technology that surrounds them and learn to use it ways they never dreamed possible, changing their lives forever. At this year’s Commencement ceremonies, she was named the recipient of the 2022 Gladys and Raymond Pearlstine Award for Teaching Excellence.

Science

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Together, these factors have brewed a “perfect storm” of challenges keeping students from doing homework, says Jenae Cohn, the executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of California at Berkeley. But complaining about students isn’t the answer, Cohn and other teaching experts say.

Instructors

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

Traditionally, code teaching systems use unmodified programming languages. Blackbird’s integrated LMS enables instructors to easily track student progress, review code and make direct comments. Pricing and Availability: The Blackbird education platform is now open for students, parents and instructors.

Middle School

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects. The class covers how humans change over different points in their lives, and it’s taught by Amy Meeks, a senior lecturer who has been teaching for 20 years.

Instructors

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Calculus is a critical on-ramp to careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. Researchers tapped alternative models of calculus teaching that have shown evidence that they work, according to Kramer.

Instructors

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Every day, a new batch of colleges announces that in-person classes are closed and teaching will shift online to try to halt the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19. So EdSurge asked our teaching advice columnist, Bonni Stachowiak, to offer a quick primer. And his response was to remind all of us that yes, online teaching is hard.

Instructors

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

If you’re able to answer these, that’s how you teach data science to third graders—taking what seem like complex or abstract concepts and applying them to tangible elements in students’ lives. We wanted to make sure it is as flexible as possible for instructors. What’s the dog-to-cat ratio in your classroom (or office or home)?

Science

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

The original version of this article appeared in Toward Data Science. Being new to teaching, I spent time reading up on pedagogical best practices and how methods like mastery learning and one-on-one personalized guidance could drastically improve student outcomes.

Teaching

eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Created to Address the “Middle School Gap” – Blackbird Teaches Real-world Computer Science Skills, Aligned to Educational Standards. Blackbird’s integrated LMS enables instructors to easily track student progress, review errors and make direct comments. Addresses the “Middle School Gap” in Computer Science education. ?

Middle School

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2021

Administrators at the University of Florida are so concerned that professors will refuse to teach in person this semester that they’re asking students to use an app to report any professor who teaches online instead. Smith, chair of the university’s political-science department. And some professors are outraged by the tactic.

Teaching