Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” Unfortunately, our current use of teaching philosophy statements doesn’t usually contain that expectation. Magna Publications. References.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Learning 122

Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

—Tim Carson, Skilled Trades and OER Advocate First, allow me to tell you why I don’t typically read books about online learning. The way that books have nourished my teaching has been in the area of identifying and refining my teaching philosophy and general pedagogical approaches.

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Online Learning Reading Teaching Philosophy Learning 207

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” Unfortunately, our current use of teaching philosophy statements doesn’t usually contain that expectation. Magna Publications. References.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Learning 96

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2025

Our Transformational Learning Principles provide evidence-based guidelines that support how AI can enhance and deepen the learning experience. These principles form the basis of the GenerationAI work we are leading to prepare more than 200,000 educators to use generative AI for transformational learning.

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Education Academic Integrity Learning Fairness 134

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

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. We should embrace this role as we teach in the age of AI. Saucier, Ph.D.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 94

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

I love learning. The ability to learn and grow is part of what made teaching dynamic and energizing for me. Despite my love for learning, I strongly disliked most professional development sessions. PD has a bad reputation in education circles, and it isn’t because teachers are resistant to professional learning.

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Teaching Philosophy Students Beliefs Feedback 212

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

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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Instructors Learning Teaching Philosophy Knowledge 103

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

As I prepared to teach my first educational videography course earlier this year, I found that we lacked a common vocabulary for talking about how we design learning with video in mind. Introductory Paratext Let’s consider what might ease students into video-based learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2016

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.

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Technology Blended Learning eLearning Teaching Philosophy 189

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

No matter how hard I tried, I couldnt recall learning any of the material. My Learning Experience: From a Model Student to Getting Lost I grew up in China in the 1980s as the only child of factory workers. In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. It was the same nightmare that had haunted me for over a decade.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

These Back-2-School with Math professional development math webinars give teachers confidence and inspiration as they learn math strategies on planning a successful school year for students, and parent involvement using Mathematical Practice Standards. Learn how to prepare and plan for math for the school year.

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Math Teaching Philosophy Coaching Grades 148

eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

These Back-2-School with Math professional development math webinars give teachers confidence and inspiration as they learn math strategies on planning a successful school year for students, and parent involvement using Mathematical Practice Standards. Learn how to prepare and plan for math for the school year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Lesson plans, edtech tools and learning environments either create more equity among students of different races, or more inequity. You’ve written about your experiences in classrooms and at education institutions where teachers and the broader learning environment and the culture of the community either affirmed or racially abused students.

Education 218

Education Intelligence Culture Teaching Philosophy 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2022

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. All lessons include self-reflection from students to see if they can transfer what they learned to both classes and life.”

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Teaching Philosophy Knowledge Feedback Languages 184

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. You might have been asked to map these outcomes against your department’s or institution’s broader learning objectives. There’s a fair bit of work involved with learning outcomes, and justifiably so. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Students learn to think beyond the parameters of passing an exam. And they learn that they can connect with one another through a single, common thread. My whole classroom is on Twitter, which is one way my students are learning beyond the walls of our school in New Jersey. Music unleashes creative powers in the classroom.

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Teaching Teaching Philosophy Assignments Exams 128

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

With over 20 years of teaching experience, Darren Zink, along with Megan Holloway (3 years) and Paige Kanaly (5 years), share a group of 90 students and help them connect what they’re learning in the classroom with the real world. To learn more about YouScience, please visit youscience.com.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Teaching my students about goals has become something of a crusade. Since the act of goal-writing necessitates an overall understanding of the course and its assignments, along with an analysis of their own strengths and weaknesses, students have to take an active part in their learning from the beginning of the course.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

If you teach, you know about learning outcomes. You might have been asked to map these outcomes against your department’s or institution’s broader learning objectives. There’s a fair bit of work involved with learning outcomes, and justifiably so. But why limit ourselves to student learning outcomes only?

Learning Outcomes 59

Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Students 59

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

How have my various experiences influenced my teaching philosophy, and which principles do I rely on to inform my interactions and collaboration with learners? My primary goal is to promote accessibility and implement universal design for learning (UDL), offering diverse avenues for learners to interact with and obtain content.

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Feedback Secondary Education Teaching Philosophy Assignments 111

Gaggle Speaks

APRIL 7, 2016

Start with an introduction and share your teaching philosophy along with some of what you’re expecting for the year. Share small tidbits about the class or the ongoing topics being taught and discussed. YouTube Videos. Create a YouTube channel and offer parents video updates.

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Teaching Philosophy Teachers Discussions Teaching 75

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

We also believe in making reasonable accommodations to support their learning and their success. having a more inclusive, safe environment for learning) but also ourselves (e.g., having a supportive course structure that allows us to enjoy teaching more). Teach some amazing content. Raimondi, 2019).

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Course Design Assignments Teaching Philosophy Instructors 142

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

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. We should embrace this role as we teach in the age of AI. Saucier, Ph.D.

Instructors 109

Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 109

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2023

But it wasn’t until she found a program that allowed her maximum flexibility and paid on-the-job learning that she was able to pursue this path once and for all. During the day, in this program, we are substitute teachers, but then at night, we're doing online learning. No one noticed that I had a learning disability.

Social Studies 141

Social Studies Teaching Philosophy Coaching High School 141

Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

For those that are strongly impacted, how could you: Integrate AI to further students’ learning and achievement of course objectives? What, if any, alternatives do you need to provide students for conscientious objectors, accessibility, or Universal Design for Learning perspectives? Learning and Teaching: Teach HQ.

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Ethics Multidisciplinary Course Design Confidentiality 102

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Students will need to craft a research question, read relevant sources and synthesize what they learn in a short paper. She learned that the program was entirely online, which meant Ruth Cady could take classes from home and still drive her kids to school and to their appointments. It’s because he loves to learn.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 176

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

We also believe in making reasonable accommodations to support their learning and their success. having a more inclusive, safe environment for learning) but also ourselves (e.g., having a supportive course structure that allows us to enjoy teaching more). Teach some amazing content. Raimondi, 2019).

Course Design 98

Course Design Assignments Teaching Philosophy Instructors 98

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. All lessons include self-reflection from students to see if they can transfer what they learned to both classes and life.”

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Teaching Philosophy Knowledge Feedback Languages 84

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

It is part of the curriculum in many other countries around the world, and there is a small but growing movement to have philosophy taught in American schools. Another upside is that when you teach philosophy in schools, you have the opportunity to cultivate norms of good conversations and good deliberations.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Failure Schools 218

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 14, 2025

But as we all know, not every teaching day is as rewarding as the last. Learn all about symptoms, tips for turning things around, and how teacher burnout can have a major effect on the entire educational profession. You get to inspire students, collaborate with other professionals, and impact the future of your community every day.

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Teachers Teaching Philosophy Grades Assignments 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

There are so many good ethics classes to be taken here on campus, and they're going to get some in their major and they're going to get some when they're taking philosophy. And so you're not going to replace other classes with screening of Good Place. This is not for every class? Shreve: Correct.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Ethics Syllabus 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Perhaps also because as flipped learning has evolved, it has adopted much more of an open-ended definition. The promise of more time for active learning is key to the flipped appeal, its fans say. Namely, his videos were approaching critical mass just around the same time as flipped learning was coming into its own. “I

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Lecturing Learning Teaching Philosophy Active Learning 154

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Each week, available members opt in for a video call with a peer in their cohort of instructional designers or cohort of deans, directors and provosts of digital learning. So what have Loop members learned in a year of exchanging knowledge? adaptive learning. We’ve collected some of their shared insights below. Olaf College.

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Learning Teaching Philosophy Discussions Culture 129

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. He had lost all love of school, any love of learning and the only thing keeping him together were his friends.

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Coaching English Students Teaching Philosophy 144

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

The first day of class is a day on which we can nurture our students’ voices and promote their engagement and intrinsic motivation for learning (Saucier, 2020). 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.

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Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

The first day of class is a day on which we can nurture our students’ voices and promote their engagement and intrinsic motivation for learning (Saucier, 2020). 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.

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Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 98