Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. Aside from promoting positive interdependence and individual accountability, students participate equally through simultaneous interactions. With transparent directions, every student knows exactly what to do.

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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. Rethink Participation Not everyone feels comfortable speaking up in class. The other didn’t have working air conditioning. Often, it’s a preparedness gap. The ZIP Code Effect.”

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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. Rethink Participation Not everyone feels comfortable speaking up in class. The other didn’t have working air conditioning. Often, it’s a preparedness gap. The ZIP Code Effect.”

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Teaching Elementary School Elementary School Failure 53

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam is the co-founder of the Vietnam Innovative Educators Foundation (VIEF), a professional network of over 157,000 educators committed to advancing technology-enhanced and student-centered teaching practices nationwide. I grew up in Vietnam at a time when education was often delivered through rigid lectures and rote learning.

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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

A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. Aside from promoting positive interdependence and individual accountability, students participate equally through simultaneous interactions. With transparent directions, every student knows exactly what to do.

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Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 71

Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Use budgeting activities to teach percentageshave students plan a trip with a set budget. Adding a competitive element can turn even the most reluctant learners into active participants. Keeping math relevant and interactive is key. Make Math Real with Real-world Connections The best way to hook middle schoolers?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 135

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

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. I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

After years of teaching, I noticed how often students carried academic, emotional, and personal burdens without sharing them. From Curiosity to Campuswide Inquiry The project began in two large general education courses I teach at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: FSHN 101: The Science of Food and FSHN 120: Contemporary Nutrition.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

No matter what subject you teach, spend time showing students how to take notes, how to study for tests and quizzes, and how to balance their time between homework and other after-school activities. This foundational knowledge includes study skills. Have all students set skill-based goals at the beginning of the year.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

A professor lectures students during class at Sacramento State University on Oct. That disengagement hindered attendance and participation during and after the pandemic, Davidson-Boyd said. “A One of her few in-person classes was a math course, but it was held in a large lecture hall and required students to wear masks. “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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Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 68

k12

JULY 24, 2025

Either option might use online lectures, digital texts, gamified learning, instructional videos, and online forums. Students might attend live video sessions, participate in digital office hours, and even form virtual study groups with classmates. Parent availability and teaching comfort. Others find this idea daunting.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2016

K-12 schools have been working to cultivate and encourage girls’ interest in STEM, and narrow the gap in girls’ participation in science courses. However, in high school, my science classes were primarily comprised of lectures and worksheets. This not only gets them engaged, but it helps them remember what you’re teaching.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

Dan Levy had long considered himself an equitable instructor in terms of calling on students to participate in class discussions. So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

What’s the Use of Lectures? Yet that discomfort also raises opportunities to question prevailing assumptions about how teaching and learning occurs. Let’s start with one of education’s most hallowed traditions: the lecture. In his 1971 book “ What’s the Use of Lectures? Many things did not translate well online.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 14, 2020

Last night I had the opportunity to be a guest lecturer for students in the credential program at UC Riverside. As I was planning my presentation, I knew I wanted to engage the group attending my lecture. I decided to use Mentimeter to encourage audience participation throughout my presentation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Here’s Why Kids Should Participate in Extracurricular Activities Most parents ignore this, but playtime activities significantly contribute to a child’s overall development. That said, below are a few reasons your child should actively participate in extracurricular activities: 1.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. And now that campuses are back from pandemic restrictions, many instructors are trying to incorporate those remote practices into their in-person teaching.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2020

Below are three suggestions for using these video conferencing platforms to continue teaching students as they learn remotely. #1 These online sessions are an excellent way to continue teaching and connecting with learners. 1 Small Group Instruction. It is essential to build in time for them to discuss information and ask questions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2020

Option 1: Paper-based teaching Point a camera at a piece of paper, write on it and lecture. And here’s what your student will see: Option 2: Whiteboard or easel teaching Point a camera at yourself while lecturing in front of a whiteboard or easel+paper pad. Set video to “on” for both host and participant 2.

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Teaching Lecturing Instructors Disabilities 208

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

lecture, discussion, written responses), there are myriad barriers that may make it hard for students to access information and share their learning effectively. What might make it hard for a student to process information presented verbally in a lecture or mini-lesson? Taking time to identify barriers in our design work is critical.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2022

The traditional sequence of teaching using lectures, discussion, projects, and testing was upended during the pandemic as teachers adapted to digital classrooms and students took on more responsibility for their learning. In many traditional classrooms, the majority of class time is spent in a lecture-and-listen format.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Even though the flipped classroom encouraged teachers to record lectures and mini-lessons to send home with students for homework, video can be woven into the class period to shift control from teacher to learner. Unlike a whole group discussion in class, an online discussion makes it possible for every student to participate.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

It supports active learning, student flexibility, and various teaching and learning methods. The pandemic exacerbated this issue, as most schools implemented “emergency remote teaching” instead of pedagogically aligned instruction, cobbling together many disparate technologies that were not built or designed for education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Based on conversations we had with teachers, ViewSonic developed a solution to address their concerns when teaching online. UNIVERSE helps teachers solve the engagement problem with a metaverse concept—students and teachers can feel more present and participate in natural conversation. There's a lecture mode in UNIVERSE.

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Teaching Lecturing Education Learning 213

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2021

As a longtime proponent of online higher education, I thought I’d take a stab at imagining a couple of effects digital education might have on teaching and learning in the college classroom. That has already started to happen during the pandemic, with so many faculty and staff working and teaching from home. three or four days.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2021

McKinsey reports that studies of current virtual classrooms show that only about 60 percent of low-income students regularly participate, compared to 90 percent of high-income students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Using edtech in teaching, educators and school leaders can reduce environmental impact while enhancing student engagement and creativity. Rethinking teaching methods in the digital age Teaching methods have undergone significant transformation with the rise of educational technology.

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Teaching Teaching Methods Gamification Textbooks 169

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

When Elizabeth Self starts teaching her 11 a.m. She’s in Tennessee—where she is an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University—but some of the students she’s teaching are now taking the class from California, where it’s only 8 a.m. At first, such synchronous teaching was expensive and cumbersome. for all of her students.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

Almost 19 years ago, I started a new teaching position that introduced me to the world of online instruction in higher education. The transition to a digital teaching environment is a great opportunity to be reminded of a simple fact: You don’t have to do this alone.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

They are fun for students, keep them engaged, and teach the foundational pieces of a lesson. The article’s about 1000 words and well worth the read: Simulations as a Teaching Strategy – Everything You Need to Know. But what are the key considerations when leveraging simulation as a viable teaching strategy?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The best teaching had to do with inquiry, with higher-level thinking, with student-centered project-based learning. When I taught ninth grade Global History to an integrated co-teaching, or ICT , class last year, I used explicit instruction in ways I had not done before. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2020

colleges plan to resume at least some online teaching in the fall, details are beginning to emerge about what classroom teaching might look like in a time of social distancing. Its president, Mitch Daniels, told CNN that some professors will be lecturing from behind clear partitions. As more than half of U.S.

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