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Flip Your Back-to-School Night

Catlin Tucker

Quick Introduction – My Teaching Philosophy. I introduce myself to parents and share my teaching philosophy. I explain why I believe it’s important to place students at the center of learning in the classroom and how I use blended learning strategies and technology to create a student-centered learning experience.

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Starting with Philosophy: Examining Teaching Philosophy as a Starting Point for Improvement

Faculty Focus

Yes, ChatGPT could write it and it might look a little like this: My philosophy of teaching is centered on the belief that all students have the potential to learn and succeed. To tap into this potential, I adopt student-centered approaches that prioritize student voice, choice, and agency in the learning process.

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Starting with Philosophy: Examining Teaching Philosophy as a Starting Point for Improvement

Faculty Focus

Yes, ChatGPT could write it and it might look a little like this: My philosophy of teaching is centered on the belief that all students have the potential to learn and succeed. To tap into this potential, I adopt student-centered approaches that prioritize student voice, choice, and agency in the learning process.

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3 ways to keep your online classroom engaged

eSchool News

My teaching philosophy is that the content is no longer the commodity. I teach computer literacy at Digital Academy of Florida (DAOF) and I’ve found numerous ways to keep my students engaged in my short time there. I start by highlighting that it’s their class, not mine. They’re in the driver’s seat.

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What Can College Instructors Offer Their Students in the Age of AI? 

Faculty Focus

He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. What college instructors are needed for, he said, is to motivate our students to learn. We are needed to inspire students to come to class, to ask questions, to work out the answers with them.

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We Need to Distinguish Applied Humanities from Experiential Learning

Faculty Focus

Experiential learning is on the rise (Roberts & Welton 2022), perhaps because it can be a pathway to increased student engagement. But the term experiential learning is sometimes used interchangeably with applied learning, which runs the risk of clouding the specific benefits of each approach.

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How to hire technology leaders, not followers

eSchool News

They varied in other ways (demographics, degree of focus on sports and the arts, religious affiliation) but these differences often did not impact the classroom; the methods of teaching were reasonably consistent. Blended learning, and its subset flipped learning, are trends that are not just growing but becoming the norm.