Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Drawing on our own positive educational experiences, our goal is to create a space where PSTs feel they can ask questions and seek support (math-related or otherwise) as they begin their journey through teacher education. Cultivate dynamic spaces where PSTs can ask questions and seek help. makes PSTs the expert in the room.

Math 98

Math Teaching Teachers Instructors 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 4, 2023

The question is, how do we develop those skillsets in and among our students? Another thing I’ve observed in higher education is a fishbowl, where students come and swim around in our courses and in our academic curriculum, but they fail to do anything with that knowledge outside of the context of the learning environment itself.

Technology 98

Technology Art Learning Students 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. One challenge of this question is that it requires students to have some knowledge of different political perspectives on the topic.

Teaching 130

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 130

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention.

Attention 122

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 122

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

I had started integrating information literacy skills into my sociology classes with a narrow focus that built on research method topics that were appropriate for an introductory course. One challenge of this question is that it requires students to have some knowledge of different political perspectives on the topic.

Teaching 111

Teaching Evaluation Discussions Plagiarism 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

My informal research methods included collecting self-perception data from students on what they found most helpful for staying engaged. The overarching result that emerged from my personal experimentation and research was determining a framework of six categories to cultivate a student’s attention.

Attention 111

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 111

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

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. My students seemed to either not understand my question or have difficulty with the content.

Teaching 52

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Problem-Based Learning 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Bear all this in mind as you consider the following question: What if there were a job-skills machine? Even if everyone could agree on the answers to those questions, would we be able to create a shared language for describing all these skills, so that workers, bosses and educators really understood each other? Like the steam engine.

Skills 190

Skills Intelligence Syllabus Languages 190

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. This manifests particularly in what many perceive as an innocuous question: “Where are you from?” Wait, what?

Education 178

Education Schools Questions Culture 178

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

The public sabbatical, the one that I proposed to my university and to Steelcase, centers around being on-site at Steelcase headquarters in Grand Rapids, conducting research on active learning and active learning classrooms and communicating that research to Steelcase audiences and customers.

Learning 123

Learning Culture Research Methods Learning Spaces 123