Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

The traditional flipped classroom model, which reverses the conventional lecture-homework structure, has evolved significantly since its inception. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world. I grew up in Vietnam at a time when education was often delivered through rigid lectures and rote learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Jeff LeBlanc (image courtesy of Jeff LeBlanc) I’m a business and leadership lecturer, and I’ve worked with Gen Z since the earliest wave entered higher education. The same traits tend to rise to the top: kindness, strong communication and knowledge/expertise. It’s a neat storyline — and it makes for a great headline.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. These actionable, collaborative strategies help educators navigate their role as facilitators, guiding and responding rather than lecturing and directing. Reflection reinforces academic content and collaboration skills.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

However, we are often unaware of tacit knowledge that underlies our activities and actions, especially when things do not go as planned. That is, when do make our reflective practice modus operandi, we declare our commitment in developing our professional knowledge and artistry. During the lecture, focus on reflection-during-action.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

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Art Curriculum Interdisciplinary Teaching 97

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Assume that students are capable and possess knowledge and skills. Provide Closed Captioning on posted videos (lectures, resources, etc.). Refer to people how they refer to themselves. Realize that impact matters, regardless of intention. Support colleagues with disabilities. When they ask what this means, share these suggestions!

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. These actionable, collaborative strategies help educators navigate their role as facilitators, guiding and responding rather than lecturing and directing. Reflection reinforces academic content and collaboration skills.

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Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 62

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. ’ and then applying it to new knowledge.” “Multiple choice is great because you can assess students’ knowledge quickly and equitably. They’re retrieving ‘what is extroverted?’

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

First, all students, regardless of their SES (socio-economic status) standing, showed significantly higher levels of retained learning than the control group which used the time-honored lectures, basic active learning techniques, and case approaches. What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students?

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Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

We have all seen the stereotypical portrayal of the traditional school setting where a teacher stands at the front of the classroom and spends the entirety of class time giving a lecture and asking questions of the students. No matter how interesting the teacher, sometimes it can be hard for students to focus for very long on a lecture.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. He said that college instructors are not needed to give information to their students, at least not the foundations, definitions, etc.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Dr. Emily Tarconish, a teaching professor in the College of Education, contributed her deep knowledge of Universal Design for Learning and accessible course design. Flexibility in format and modality such as recorded lectures, alternative assignments, or extended deadlinesmade students feel supported, capable, and seen.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. Research indicates that students thrive in environments where teachers act as facilitators rather than mere dispensers of knowledge.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

She is being asked to use the knowledge and skills she has developed at work to scaffold new information related to the field of psychology. Notice that for Tara and Tim, completing any of these tasks without any other coursework, reading, video lectures, tutorials, or information would be a challenge.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Build up foundational knowledge 4. Build up foundational knowledge Many students enter high school with gaps in their instruction, making many lessons and activities feel impossibly difficult. This foundational knowledge includes study skills. Table of Contents 1. Begin with a fresh start 2. Create personal relationships 3.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

Your ringtone blasts in class, or you start snoring mid-lecture? Bite into these delicious Would You Rather food questions Teenagers are roaming vending machines of knowledge. Perfect for a quick reset before diving back into an intense lesson. End a call with I love you to a stranger or send your baby photo to a crush?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

I had a very knowledgeable teacher, but lecture slides were available online, and they covered almost all of the material for the course. It seems an hour can be better spent reading slides and doing a practice problem than sitting through a lecture.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Some of the newer pieces of adaptive software such as Achieve3000 and TenMarks use algorithms to identify a student’s current baseline knowledge so that instruction is neither too hard nor too easy, providing students with a more personalized experience. If some of the more rote sorts of lessons (think lectures, reviewing math facts, etc.)

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

What’s the Use of Lectures? Let’s start with one of education’s most hallowed traditions: the lecture. In his 1971 book “ What’s the Use of Lectures? The author’s work did not discount the fact that there are inspirational teachers whose lectures are so compelling they can hold student attention for hours.

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Lecturing Questions Learning Attention 207

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

lecture, discussion, written responses), there are myriad barriers that may make it hard for students to access information and share their learning effectively. What might make it hard for a student to process information presented verbally in a lecture or mini-lesson? Taking time to identify barriers in our design work is critical.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

” Challenges with Traditional Live Instruction Traditionally, educators disseminate information in real-time, relying on lectures or mini-lessons. Pre-video Activity Teachers can use the pre-video activity to pique student interest, tap into their prior knowledge, or encourage them to brainstorm or make predictions.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information. The same class may have students who don’t have the necessary prior knowledge or language skills to understand the information presented.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash. Why Start With Think-Pair-Share?

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2021

You might feel that way about Brilliant –a site that helps users learn not through lecture videos, but through hands-on, interactive learning. It also provides instant feedback so that learners can improve their knowledge through problem solving.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. Where are they seeing growth in their skills and/or content knowledge? When I facilitate blended learning workshops, teachers will make comments like, “This is great, but it seems like a lot of work.”

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Blended Learning Teachers Learning Grades 535

eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Rather than watch a lecture in class and complete homework at home, students would watch a video lecture at home and do the “homework” in class. Students begin at 100 percent and are gradually whittled down to their deserved score when, in reality, the opposite is true: Students build knowledge as they go.

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Lecturing Learning Assignments Grades 279

eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2016

They use the latest available knowledge to ensure the relevance and effectiveness of education, which showcases the professionalism of the company. Have you ever downloaded an online lecture from iTunes? It has a lot of resources for students, including books, videos, lectures, flashcards, and other materials. iTunes University.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2024

As educators, our responsibility lies not only in disseminating knowledge but also in understanding and accommodating the diverse learning styles present among our students. They are influenced by factors such as genetics, culture, and life experiences.

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Learning Styles Intelligence Learning Teaching Methods 288

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Classically, the transfer of information has occurred in class via lecture and practice has been assigned for homework. Alternatively, teachers can assess students’ prior knowledge with an individual task and collect useful data to inform their follow-up instruction. Second, flip and engage.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Gone are the days of teachers lecturing in front of students who are taking furious notes. This allowed teachers to complete a module of lecture-based learning, generally a week of class, and imprint the knowledge into long-term memory via these tools. Many of the best educators use review tools like Kahoot, and Jeopardy!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In the coming year, that broad trend will continue, with a shift to looking beyond knowledge building as schools, districts, and states begin improving capacity and creating systems aligned to the science of reading. It is a body of research from multiple disciplines that helps us understand how people learn to read.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2018

Is it by asking them to passively read a textbook or listen to a teacher lecture? We want to increase their knowledge, skills, and interest in STEM, and balance student-centered teaching with state and national standards. Or is it by challenging them to actively engage in projects that attempt to solve real-world problems?

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

About The Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative The Saul Zaentz Early Education Initiative at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) promotes the knowledge, professional learning, and collective action necessary to cultivate optimal early learning environments and experiences. To watch the recorded livestream, please visit [link].

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Education Lecturing Evaluation Knowledge 254

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Students then apply their knowledge to solve a real world problem within the context of a story. Labster is the world’s leading platform for virtual labs and science simulations. Students’ learning outcomes improve with Labster because we engage them with game-based elements that inspire them to explore science.

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