Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

This step was taken especially since it became more difficult for me over the years in the classroom to keep todays device-driven students focused beyond 10 seconds or less on an assigned major concept for each of my fifty-minute classes.Retained learning was there but not at the expected levels.In

Student Engagement 70

Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 70

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

This past semester, each student submitted reading notes as an assignment in the LMS. one question they had for others who read the same chapter. As I read Smith’s words, I imagined the power of discussions taking place in the margins of books across generations. Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) January 2, 2019. Hypothes.is

Instructors 163

Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 163

Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

Research shows that initial class sessions are crucial for establishing trust, setting expectations, and capturing student interest (Curzan & Damour, 2000; Davis, 1993; Lucas, 2006; McKeachie, 2002) three elements essential to maintaining engagement across the semester. Student engagement techniques: A handbook for college faculty.

Syllabus 103

Syllabus Instructors Learning Confidentiality 103

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2024

We may not have a storefront window to attract attention, but we do have something that students see before the start of the semester that can grab their attention, set the tone, and get them excited about entering the class…your syllabus! Students often perceive this course document to be dry and lengthy (perhaps a justified opinion).

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Attention Assignments Activities 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2024

We may not have a storefront window to attract attention, but we do have something that students see before the start of the semester that can grab their attention, set the tone, and get them excited about entering the class…your syllabus! Students often perceive this course document to be dry and lengthy (perhaps a justified opinion).

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Attention Assignments Activities 111

Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

Research shows that initial class sessions are crucial for establishing trust, setting expectations, and capturing student interest (Curzan & Damour, 2000; Davis, 1993; Lucas, 2006; McKeachie, 2002) three elements essential to maintaining engagement across the semester. Student engagement techniques: A handbook for college faculty.

Syllabus 96

Syllabus Instructors Learning Confidentiality 96

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Co-create classroom norms with your students.

Teaching 119

Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 119

Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

They asked questions throughout class sessions and expected students to engage with the content. According to the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, “Student engagement is the psychological investment a student makes in learning.” [1] for “Students are.” And the students?

Coaching 105

Coaching Syllabus Confidentiality Assignments 105

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments. Co-create classroom norms with your students.

Teaching 109

Teaching Syllabus Feedback Instructors 109

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Imagine having a digital assistant that never sleeps, helping you draft syllabi, create lesson plans, and even answer those tricky student emails. But fear not!

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 119

Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

They asked questions throughout class sessions and expected students to engage with the content. According to the National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments, “Student engagement is the psychological investment a student makes in learning.” [1] for “Students are.” And the students?

Coaching 98

Coaching Syllabus Confidentiality Assignments 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

That’s a way for me to overcome the physical constraint of the classroom so that I can make a personal connection with all the students throughout the semester. Professor John Branch and students. How do you keep your students engaged? My office hours are any time a student needs to see me, and I’m in town.

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 13, 2024

As the lazy days of summer start to dwindle, it’s time to trade in beach reads for textbooks and flip-flops for sensible shoes. Imagine having a digital assistant that never sleeps, helping you draft syllabi, create lesson plans, and even answer those tricky student emails. But fear not!

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Assignments Feedback Teaching Assistants 111

EAB

MAY 23, 2023

Podcast New Student Engagement Data Reveals Surprises Episode 152. They also offer advice to community college leaders on ways to make measurable improvements in student retention and enrollment. EAB · New Student Engagement Data Reveal Surprises Transcript [music] 0:00:13.0 May 23, 2023.

Student Engagement 52

Student Engagement Students Questions Syllabus 52

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Group Trivia: I end our first-class session with some trivia questions for students to answer in small groups of 4-to-5 students. And seeing the compassion each student shows by helping others means that I leave each class session joyful and energized. It is a nice balance of learning and pop-culture. References Johnson, D.

Exams 115

Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 115

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Group Trivia: I end our first-class session with some trivia questions for students to answer in small groups of 4-to-5 students. And seeing the compassion each student shows by helping others means that I leave each class session joyful and energized. It is a nice balance of learning and pop-culture. References Johnson, D.

Exams 110

Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 110

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

It becomes the faculty’s responsibility to close the proximity and strongly engage students to pay close attention to assignments, read announcements, hold virtual office hours, and positively influence student outcomes of the course. But when you begin teaching in an online platform this proximity can be lost.

Learning 111

Learning Syllabus Assignments Communication 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Below is just a small sample of the range of activities and conversations they engaged in, as described by Andrew Rikard , an undergraduate at Davidson College and the facilitator of the inaugural cohort: “We built our own syllabus, decided what topics interested us and recruited experts to talk to us about those topics.

Syllabus 104

Syllabus Students Essay Language 104

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Or read a transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. An Invitation to Observe Lecture Classes Back in 2020, I did an interview for this podcast with James Lang, about a book he had just written about student distraction in college classes. Or, will this moment force a change in the way college teaching is done?

Lecturing 205

Lecturing Students Attention Syllabus 205

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2023

It becomes the faculty’s responsibility to close the proximity and strongly engage students to pay close attention to assignments, read announcements, hold virtual office hours, and positively influence student outcomes of the course. But when you begin teaching in an online platform this proximity can be lost.

Learning 98

Learning Syllabus Assignments Communication 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2023

Instructors then comment or respond to at least one thing to help students know that their responses are read and recognized. Empathy Taking online classes can be challenging and isolating for many students. In the syllabus, clearly state what you expect from students and what students can expect from you.

Instructors 59

Instructors Syllabus Feedback Assignments 59

Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Tips Tip 1: Define and describe in your syllabus. Be clear and concise with your syllabus language to communicate the definition of ungrading and how it will be used in your course. This may be done by listing weekly expectations (attendance, reading, assignments, etc.) References Clark, D., & Talbert, R. Kalbarczyk, A.,

Syllabus 52

Syllabus Instructors Feedback Assignments 52

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

The first day of class should be much more than “syllabus day” – the first day of class is hugely important in setting the tone for the entire semester in many ways. The first day of class is a day on which we can nurture our students’ voices and promote their engagement and intrinsic motivation for learning (Saucier, 2020).

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

The first day of class should be much more than “syllabus day” – the first day of class is hugely important in setting the tone for the entire semester in many ways. The first day of class is a day on which we can nurture our students’ voices and promote their engagement and intrinsic motivation for learning (Saucier, 2020).

Syllabus 98

Syllabus Instructors Activities Teaching Philosophy 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. So in order to minimize the visual overload, in my classes, we tried reading texts with our bodies.

Lecturing 217

Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Decolonize my syllabus , decolonize my curriculum, decolonize my classroom—for some time now, the term “decolonization” has been the buzzword around campus, as students and certain faculty demand inclusion and diversity in education. So in order to minimize the visual overload, in my classes, we tried reading texts with our bodies.

Lecturing 203

Lecturing Education Learning Knowledge 203

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 9, 2022

The course structure overview video, syllabus, and course map are provided in the “Start Here” module to give clear information about the objectives, assignments, assessments, and materials for student learning. This helps my face-to-face and virtual students focus on their learning process using various modes of presentation.

Universal Design 116

Universal Design Course Design Learning Syllabus 116