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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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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. So what has he learned in more than 20 years from applying his persistence (and much of the money he won from the Nobel) to studying teaching? And this isn't just flippant.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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Like many others teaching college classes across the country, Sharyn Hardy spent the last few days figuring out how to translate her carefully crafted classroom lectures into lessons that her students can learn online. Yet she has had to do double the adapting of most full-time faculty.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

For reasons I won’t belabor, my teaching stunk. During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. I remember my first year as a tenure-track professor as a nightmare. They always did.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

For reasons I won’t belabor, my teaching stunk. During lectures, I prayed that no one would ask me a question that I couldn’t answer. I expected a reckoning on my course evaluations, but the results were way worse than I expected. I remember my first year as a tenure-track professor as a nightmare. They always did.

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16 Education Podcasts to Check Out In 2017

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Recent episodes include “How to Approach Your Teaching Like a Master Chef,” and “Creating a Welcoming Classroom for Special Ed Students.” The Teach Better Podcast Doug McKee, a senior lecturer ad Cornell University, and Edward O’Neill, a freelance instructional, designer have been sitting down to talk teaching since 2015.

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Death of a Traditional Lecture

Faculty Focus

Faculty and pedagogists alike have been aware of the illness and many attempted to replace the traditional lecture with some alternative learning approaches which have been housed under various buzzwords such as “flipped classroom” (Milman, 2012), “experiential learning” (Wurdinger, 2005), and “blended learning” (Pavla, 2014).

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Death of a Traditional Lecture

Faculty Focus

Faculty and pedagogists alike have been aware of the illness and many attempted to replace the traditional lecture with some alternative learning approaches which have been housed under various buzzwords such as “flipped classroom” (Milman, 2012), “experiential learning” (Wurdinger, 2005), and “blended learning” (Pavla, 2014).