Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

The traditional flipped classroom model, which reverses the conventional lecture-homework structure, has evolved significantly since its inception. In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Today’s modern liberal education typically encompasses a general education curriculum that offers extensive learning across various multiple disciplines and perspectives, paired with focused study in a chosen major. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

MIND Education announced the launch of InsightMath , the only K-6 core math curriculum redefining math instruction with an approach explicitly designed around how the brain learns. Like ST Math, InsightMath leverages spatial-temporal reasoning and visual problem-solving strategies to unlock deeper learning. million students nationwide.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

And that’s been my experience the past few years as I’m learning to love and embrace myself.” In 2023, Gethard co-founded Laughing Together, a program based on research that comedy can be an effective tool for students’ social-emotional learning and social connection with their peers. And then I tried one, and I actually love ’em.

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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.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

And students from those environments bring that context with them when they walk into our lecture halls. That kind of insight changes how we teach. The post When ZIP Codes Teach: How Geographic Inequity Shows Up in Our Classrooms appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

And students from those environments bring that context with them when they walk into our lecture halls. That kind of insight changes how we teach. The post When ZIP Codes Teach: How Geographic Inequity Shows Up in Our Classrooms appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

And it doesn't necessarily have to be robust movement either: one study found that when people doodle while listening to a lecture, they retain nearly 30 percent more of the information. What visitors to a play-based classroom are witnessing are humans in motion, thinking, and learning at full capacity.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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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., Provide Closed Captioning on posted videos (lectures, resources, etc.).

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Inclusivity and feelings of psychological safety in the classroom should not be reserved solely for K-12 learning environments. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. With transparent directions, every student knows exactly what to do.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Making Math Fun for Young Students Turn Math into Learning Stations Textbooks alone wont cut it for young learners, they need movement, hands-on activities, and variety. Learning stations are a great way to keep them engaged. Apps like these help kids explore math concepts at their own pace while making learning an adventure.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

As scholar-teachers, we know that the habit of reflectioncan be a powerful tool for workplace learning and performance, which can separate high-performance professionals from mediocre ones. During the Covid-19 pandemic, I set a before-action directive in my international business for students to engage in a virtual consulting-based learning.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. What college instructors are needed for, he said, is to motivate our students to learn. He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI. Our role is to inspire our students to learn that content. Saucier, Ph.D.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice. 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.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Inclusivity and feelings of psychological safety in the classroom should not be reserved solely for K-12 learning environments. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. With transparent directions, every student knows exactly what to do.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This starts with taking useful courses whilst still in high school, so that you have to right credentials to get into the university you like, then it’s getting used to online learning, just in case you want to visit an online university and then understanding the future of what you need beyond a BA undergraduate degree like a masters.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

It cannot be truly innovative because it learns from existing data. Aileen Wanli Lam is a Senior Lecturer and technology enthusiast at the National University of Singapore. “Nine ways to reduce cognitive load in multimedia learning.” “When graphics improve liking but not learning from online lessons.”

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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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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

With classrooms evolving and student engagement more important than ever, educators are looking for innovative solutions to enhance learning, boost efficiency and inspire creativity in dynamic learning environments. Epson is showcasing its latest display and print technology solutions in booth #1719.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. What innovations might redefine the learning environment? Data indicates that online learning offers flexibility that traditional classrooms often can’t match. A study from the U.S.

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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 18, 2025

And when students know what to expect, they can focus on learning—because the brain doesn’t work well in uncertainty. Through stories, we model empathy, boundaries, kindness, and even how to navigate tricky moments — all without turning it into a lecture. What did we learn about our classroom today? So I stopped.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 3, 2025

It cannot be truly innovative because it learns from existing data. Aileen Wanli Lam is a Senior Lecturer and technology enthusiast at the National University of Singapore. “Nine ways to reduce cognitive load in multimedia learning.” “When graphics improve liking but not learning from online lessons.”

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Find new ways to assess learning 5. Build a learning team 11.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

She works with students with autism and students with specific learning and cognitive needs and loves organizing desks into smiley faces, basic shapes, and even letters for creative classroom seating arrangements. She believes this approach can increase student focus, comfort, collaboration, and excitement for learning.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

As teaching and learning increasingly shifted online throughout the early 2000s and 2010s, Turnitin became more embedded in classes. Those case counts dropped — sometimes precipitously — with the return to in-person learning but climbed again when the release of ChatGPT gave Turnitin its next crisis to monetize. Ruys mused.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Those students had spent half their junior year and nearly all their senior year in remote learning. A professor lectures students during class at Sacramento State University on Oct. billion and spent some of that on technology to accommodate remote learning. I had to learn on my own,” said Banda, now 22. “I

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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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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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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

Your ringtone blasts in class, or you start snoring mid-lecture? Dance in a school assembly in traditional clothing or teach your classmates a recipe from your culture? It includes 20 prompts that help students learn Spanish and immerse themselves in the culture. Skip deodorant for a day or realize your shoes dont match?

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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. Like some of my peers, I began to feel that physically going to class did not help facilitate my learning. Factor in the chances that I am going to be ready to learn at precisely 4-5:30 p.m.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 4, 2025

Upon finishing a public lecture on cosmology and the structure of the solar system, James was accosted by a "little old lady." It often seems like pure arrogance to think that I have anything truly important to teach these humans. I've been writing about play-based learning almost every day for the past 14 years.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Public school districts can move to online learning in incremental steps — just one day a week. These days it seems most school-wide blended learning programs are taking place not in traditional public education, but in charter schools—for one big reason: Charter schools are able to essentially start from scratch.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

I like to compare the teacher’s work designing learning experiences to the work of an architect. In my new book with Dr. Katie Novak, UDL and Blended Learning , I share a story about working with an architect to design a new home after my family lost our house in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. 1 Get To Know Your Students.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

As schools closed their doors, remote learning became the primary mode of instruction, accelerating edtech’s role in classrooms. Learning management systems and digital resources became indispensable for assigning work, tracking progress, and providing feedback.

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