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A small number of teachers can double the racial gap in disciplinary action

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These gaps are mainly driven by higher numbers of office discipline referrals (ODRs) issued for Black and Hispanic students, compared to White students. The study , published in Educational Researcher , a peer-reviewed journal of AERA, was conducted by Jing Liu at the University of Maryland, College Park, Emily K.

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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

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Students were able to ask questions and get immediate answers or feedback, which was particularly satisfying and gave them confidence to move forward. She has presented research and workshops on topics ranging from Marketing Destinations to Online Curriculum culminating with numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals since 2013.

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

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We can nurture our students intrinsic motivation to learn the content through demonstrations of our own engagement, activating the process of trickle-down engagement by which our own engagement as instructors promotes our students engagement and their subsequent learning (Saucier, Miller, Martens, & Jones, 2022).

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How to incorporate real-world connections into any subject area

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This interaction helps students connect the dots, understanding that the products they use have origins in distant places, such as the Amazon rainforest. Despite it being thousands of miles away, I challenge students to consider why they should care. According to Moser et. This intentionality is crucial.

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Do Instructional Videos Work Better When the Teacher is On Screen? It Depends.

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The researchers argue that when educators make instructional videos, it’s important for students to be able to see the teacher’s face, and particularly to see their eyes and where they are looking. One of the things we do as researchers is we test ideas,” says Stull. “We We don’t just assume, or say, ‘that’s cool let’s use it.’”

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Maximizing Student Engagement During Live Online Seminars

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Students were able to ask questions and get immediate answers or feedback, which was particularly satisfying and gave them confidence to move forward. She has presented research and workshops on topics ranging from Marketing Destinations to Online Curriculum culminating with numerous publications in peer-reviewed journals since 2013.

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How Improving Student Feedback and Teaching Data Science Restored Our Classroom Culture

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Through the anger and frustration of their feedback, I could see what my students were really trying to tell me: they felt a distance and lack of support in my classroom, and it was unfair. I dug into the existing research about student engagement and realized that my challenge was actually that my students lacked agency over their learning.

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