Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

Applied learning involves authentic tasks that require students to use the skills and knowledge bases accrued through coursework to solve real-world problems or meet real-world needs. Applied work honors the goals and needs of students from a very practical standpoint.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

Applied learning involves authentic tasks that require students to use the skills and knowledge bases accrued through coursework to solve real-world problems or meet real-world needs. Applied work honors the goals and needs of students from a very practical standpoint.

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Instructors Learning Teaching Philosophy Knowledge 105

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my confusion, I began reading for curiosity rather than exams. He compared knowledge to an adventurous exploration, best enjoyed with an open and curious mind. 1 That moment of reading was transformative. He compared knowledge to an adventurous exploration, best enjoyed with an open and curious mind. Why or why not?

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

They want to read and write and think. Charlotte Matthews “These folks come with lots of experiences, whether it’s from jobs or family life, and maybe nobody’s taken the time to really hear their story yet,” says associate professor Charlotte Matthews, who teaches Transformations. Yet many of the students want more than that, too.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Set up a digital portfolio that includes the following categories: Teaching philosophy. Based on your experience, come up with a short paragraph that describes your philosophy of teaching. This might be your familiarity with International Baccalaureate, Habits of Mind, or Depth of Knowledge. Additional Tips.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

It was fulfilling to read about how they connected to the content we learned together, the activities we engaged in, and the missions and assignments they completed. Reflections At the end of the Fall 2023 semester, we asked the students in our classes about their favorite memories from the semester (see Engage the Sage, 2023a). Renken, M.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

It’s often said that teaching and learning doesn’t always take place in the classroom—some of the most important lessons are learned on the playground, in the street, on the job or somewhere else. The same is true for educators, whose teaching philosophies are often shaped by moments that happened when they weren't in front of the classroom.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

It was fulfilling to read about how they connected to the content we learned together, the activities we engaged in, and the missions and assignments they completed. Reflections At the end of the Fall 2023 semester, we asked the students in our classes about their favorite memories from the semester (see Engage the Sage, 2023a). Renken, M.S.

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Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2025

Discovering a New Perspective Everything changed during my second year of teaching when I enrolled in a multicultural education course as part of my M.Ed. The course, led by professor Cathy Chappell, challenged my views and inspired a new teaching philosophy.

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Discussions Culture Language Languages 141

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Your engagement with these topics may take the form of assigned readings and/or videos, class discussions, and/or assignments. Please understand that the inclusion of such content in this course is not meant to cause distress on your behalf, but rather to expand your knowledge of these topics and how they manifest in the world around us.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Your engagement with these topics may take the form of assigned readings and/or videos, class discussions, and/or assignments. Please understand that the inclusion of such content in this course is not meant to cause distress on your behalf, but rather to expand your knowledge of these topics and how they manifest in the world around us.

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Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I used to read these Choose Your Own Adventure books when I was a kid. For anyone who has not read them, you go and you get to page 7 and it says, "now you get to make a choice, do you want to go up the mountain, or down by this tree.” I noticed that many of your podcast episodes focus on equity.

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