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.

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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.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

The pure confidence-building of doing well and succeeding in a college course, having a college instructor tell you that you can do this, that youre a college student that boost of confidence is one of the first things people will say is the power of these courses, Fink says.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This technological support allows students to learn at their own pace and revisit complex material without feeling anxious or dependent solely on the instructor. These data-driven approaches make it possible to transition from reactive teaching to proactive guidance. Flipped Classroom 2.0

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This technological support allows students to learn at their own pace and revisit complex material without feeling anxious or dependent solely on the instructor. These data-driven approaches make it possible to transition from reactive teaching to proactive guidance. Flipped Classroom 2.0

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 94

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. Music, in particular, has long been an ally of instructors teaching a second language (L2)—a language learned after one’s native tongue—especially since the field transitioned toward a more communicative approach.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Ask a colleague to informally observe your teaching and provide constructive feedback on your work of being an inclusive teacher.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

As a learning designer in a centralized teaching and learning unit, it’s my job to explore new technologies, particularly AI. I respect my instructors’ hard-earned expertise and original work, and I won’t use their work with GenAI tools without their permission. Generative AI and Teaching at Duke.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

As a learning designer in a centralized teaching and learning unit, it’s my job to explore new technologies, particularly AI. I respect my instructors’ hard-earned expertise and original work, and I won’t use their work with GenAI tools without their permission. Generative AI and Teaching at Duke.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education. References: Caine, R. McClintic, C., & Klimek, K. link] Gozuyesil, E., & Dikici, A.

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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.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. Music, in particular, has long been an ally of instructors teaching a second language (L2)—a language learned after one’s native tongue—especially since the field transitioned toward a more communicative approach.

Language 65

Language Languages Instructors Culture 65

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.

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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. Ruys mused.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Dr. Ana Figueroa is an assistant professor of education at the University of Tampa and the Lead Instructor of the Education Foundations and Human Exceptionalities courses in the undergraduate program. The post The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2025

Perhaps, state and local leaders thought, newly unemployed civil servants might be interested in shifting their professional energy away from processing Social Security benefits and deploying foreign aid and toward teaching students in the classroom. Job fairs were scheduled.

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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.

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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.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 69

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.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 67

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.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 128

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Dr. Ana Figueroa is an assistant professor of education at the University of Tampa and the Lead Instructor of the Education Foundations and Human Exceptionalities courses in the undergraduate program. The post The Art of Collaboration: Designing Assignments That Work appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 61

eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

A nonprofit organization for career and technical education (CTE), SkillsUSA serves more than 413,000 middle school, high school, and college students and instructors nationwide.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 27, 2025

The post Building Connections and Shaping Futures by Fostering Cohort Success appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Spencer, PhD is a Professor of Biology, the Principal Investigator of Project SCALE, and Interim Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences at Texas Womans University.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

During this process, the students practiced using complex sentence structures to explain their game, with the instructors using scaffolding techniques such as sentence frames to help them. She described the program as a blend between teaching students to read at a high level and be able to engage in the workforce and support themselves.

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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.

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Scholarly Teacher

MAY 27, 2025

Too often we focus on how to do something amazing in the classroom or strategies to create an outstanding demonstration.

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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. With the right tools and a little preparedness, you can partner with instructors to create a sense of community as strong as a physical classroom’s. Digital learning doesn’t have to be isolating.

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Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

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 70

Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

And the university introduced a freshman course with tips on identifying their interests, participating in campus events and even asking instructors for help. Cal State San Bernardino reinforced study skills through summer programs for some incoming students, with primers on writing fundamentals and “how-to college math,” she said.

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Math English Lecturing High School 87

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! Use these engaging questions and thought experiments to get middle schoolers to open up while practicing writing skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2021

In a landscape where online instruction has become more commonplace due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some educators face challenges associated with operating as an online instructor in a virtual environment. The following 5 tips can help you to be an innovative online instructor who engages students: 1.

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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. Below are five lessons I learned as an online professor that helped me to adapt to and navigate the challenge of teaching online. #1

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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).

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

Had I been asked what I thought about online teaching two years ago, I would probably have given you quite an earful of the many known shortcomings of virtual teaching modalities, including the challenges to student engagement and community building. I teach sociology at CUNY , the largest urban university in the U.S.,

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Teaching Instructors Student Engagement Technology 291

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.

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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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Time-Lapse History Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin in Oakland, California, has used process tracking in her writing classes. But for Adisa, as more and more students use AI tools, I believe some faculty may rely too much on the surveillance of writing than the actual teaching of it.

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