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Starting with Philosophy: Examining Teaching Philosophy as a Starting Point for Improvement

Faculty Focus

If we simply took this philosophy of teaching and moved ahead into practice, I would imagine that through higher education our college and university classrooms would be much different. However, we all can determine that by reading that AI-generated philosophy, we would need to tweak and edit it. What is working?

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Starting with Philosophy: Examining Teaching Philosophy as a Starting Point for Improvement

Faculty Focus

If we simply took this philosophy of teaching and moved ahead into practice, I would imagine that through higher education our college and university classrooms would be much different. However, we all can determine that by reading that AI-generated philosophy, we would need to tweak and edit it. What is working?

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

Faculty Focus

Given this reality in which AI can provide and synthesize information for and to our students at their requests in seconds, it is not completely paranoid to ask the question, What can we, as college instructors, offer our students in the age of AI? He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI.

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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

Edsurge

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. 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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Tired of the Same Old Professional Development? Let Students Lead.

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After these discussions, I posed a question to my students: “Do you all want to lead a training for us–your teachers–focused on how we could do better?” I started by asking my students two sets of questions to generate ideas that were rooted in their experiences: “Think about times when you lacked community or self-confidence in class.

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How to hire technology leaders, not followers

eSchool News

Are you asking candidates the right questions? The problem is not that they question change but rather they continue to question the change long after explanations, guidance, and support have been provided. The hiring process should reflect this need to have the teaching philosophies of new staff align closely with its vision.

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‘Press Play’ Isn’t a Teaching Strategy: Why Educators Need New Methods for Video

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With that in mind, I ask educators this question: How can we use video paratext to advance inquiry and engagement? Video Framing: While an instructor can’t constantly stop the video to note what to watch for, it is possible to plant a key question or two at the outset and encourage students to keep that in mind. Set Clear Expectations.

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