Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., The benefit of assigning video instruction for homework is that students can control the time, place, and pace of the learning experience when they watch the video at home.

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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. What students–especially struggling students–also need is teacher-directed explicit instruction. But learning does not have to be student-driven in order for it to be student-centered.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers.

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 278

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area.

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Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 105

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

On the 10th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on student engagement. Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. These adaptations do not need to be complicated either.

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Students Critical Thinking Lecturing Culture 294

eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

The days when students filed into a classroom, sat at individual desks, and listened to a teacher lecture from behind a podium are a thing of the past. Today, flexible learning environments and classrooms offer more opportunities for students to practice 21st century skills like critical thinking, collaboration, and teamwork.

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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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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Students cannot make connections and learn a topic if their spotlight isnt turned on or focused in the right area.

Lecturing 97

Lecturing Attention Students Discussions 97

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Today, pandemic-related learning loss is still a very real concern for educators, and student learning is one of education’s biggest priorities as the nation strives to move further away from the pandemic’s impact on education. What is the most effective method of teaching?

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Learning Students Motivation Teaching Methods 294

eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2020

Don’t get me wrong–I miss teaching my students in person and I can’t wait until we get back to some semblance of normal. But normal won’t be this fall, and possibly not even in the spring of 2021, so I decided, as I prep for the fall, to look at my teaching and see what went right this past semester.

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Lecturing Teachers Feedback Teaching 363

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

In much the same way, teachers must get to know their students. Below are three aspects of our design work that I encourage teachers to consider as they architect learning experiences for their students. #1 1 Get To Know Your Students. How will you get to know your individual students at the beginning of the school year?

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Blended Learning Learning Lecturing Motivation 516

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. Then I asked the students to think about how clear each tenet at the schools where they were doing their student teaching.

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Multiple Choice Questions Lecturing Participation Distance Learning 463

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2023

He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to improve teaching. “I In fact he had been pursuing research to improve physics teaching for years, as a parallel area of work that people hadn’t paid much attention to. Wieman has led efforts to improve science teaching.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Balch & Blanck, 2025; Butulis, 2023; Parks & Oslick, 2024) and to provide their students with instruction and practice in using AI in productive and ethical ways (e.g., As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI.

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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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Scholarly Teacher

MAY 8, 2025

Todd Zakrajsek*, UNC-Chapel Hill; ITLC-Lilly Conferences on Evidence-Based Teaching and LearningArtificial intelligence (AI) has become synonymous with efficiency and outcomes in higher education. AI is also often used to create lecture outlines, simulations, problem-solving activities, formative assessment analyses, and content mapping.

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Teaching Lecturing Intelligence Students 52

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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Laboratory Lecturing Discussions Testing 286

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. To see what teaching is like on campus these days, I visited Texas State University in October and sat in on three large lecture classes in different subjects.

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Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 211

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. There is often a tension created by the pressure put on teachers to cover content with the student-centered approach to learning described by UDL and blended learning.

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Disabilities 545

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Keywords: Active Learning, Think-Pair-Share, STEM Background Introductory undergraduate STEM classes are notoriously painful experiences, both for the students and for the teacher. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Picture a classroom full of students chatting about last night’s homework, volleyball practice or their favorite YouTuber’s latest release. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chu about how a metaverse application benefits both teachers and students. Teachers can divide students into discussion groups. Do the dynamics change?

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Teaching Lecturing Education Learning 211

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

With College Decision Day approaching, students are bombarded with information–rankings, brochures, campus tours, and advice from every direction. Every student has different needs, priorities, and goals, and finding the right school requires looking beyond name recognition. The key is knowing what to ask.

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Questions Students Study Textbooks 287

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Before enrolling, students have to consider their own skills, their career prospects, and their ability to thrive within the department at large. As a parent, guidance counselor, or teacher, you can help students navigate college majors by doing a little research of your own. million more over their entire lifetime.

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Students Beliefs Motivation Lecturing 269

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But he makes it clear to students that they are welcome to join any class session remotely via Zoom if they can’t make it in on any given day. Students discovered the flexibility,” he says, “and now they're demanding it.”

Teaching 206

Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 206

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 174

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. By aligning instructional strategies with how the brain naturally learns, educators can create environments where students thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.

Science 130

Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

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. What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students?

Student Engagement 81

Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 81

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2020

In addition to my work with The Glimpse Group, I am also an adjunct lecturer at Fordham University. At Fordham I teach Exploring Entrepreneurship, a class where students learn what it takes to be an entrepreneur, along with the critical elements of starting a company.

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Beliefs Lecturing Study Skills 328

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

Ironically, I see my students for about the same total amount of time because we are on an A/B schedule and our class meets every other day. Too often the default in this scenario is to lecture or verbally present information because it is faster. Allowing students to research, discuss, and share their findings takes time.

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Teachers Evaluation Lecturing Blended Learning 420

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students? It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them.

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

BILLUND, Denmark — To celebrate the second annual World Play Day, LEGO® Education is inspiring teachers to experience purposeful play firsthand by giving students and teachers Permission to Play. On top of that, almost 80% of students want more playful learning experiences in the classroom. Play is not just for the playground.

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Teachers Critical Thinking Secondary Education Learning 246

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. Students in biology are going to be using it in one way, chemistry students are going to be using it in another.

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Study Lecturing Instructors Students 214

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on November 23, 2020 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! They plan their courses around the topics they need to cover, which usually leads to them motoring through information that their students are supposed to write down and retain.

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Teaching Students Instructors History 111

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

Click To Tweet This may sound like a crazy resolution given that most teachers spend hours of time outside of school assessing their students’ work. I believe this lack of time stems from our approach to teaching. Whenever I am tempted to talk at my students or explain something, I make a video instead.

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Blended Learning Feedback Lecturing Coaching 411

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

In the early days of online education, I imagined that virtual classrooms would follow the same basic model as in-person ones, with an instructor leading the same number of students typical in a campus class. Colleges found new ways of scaling, rethinking how teaching is done online. teach remote students.

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Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 167

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Many educators are overwhelmed by the revolving door of products and lack the resources and guidance to use digital tools to address students’ needs. That’s because educators are still equipped with an antiquated model of teaching that isn’t designed to be responsive to students’ learning styles.

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Technology Lecturing Learning Styles Blended Learning 257

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

Among these is the flipped classroom model , a strategy that leverages video instruction to mitigate potential obstacles that make it challenging for students to access information presented live. Moreover, the pacing of these live presentations is unlikely to accommodate all students’ learning needs.

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