Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” Unfortunately, our current use of teaching philosophy statements doesn’t usually contain that expectation. taking a course intended to prepare them to teach.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

There’s a new book out called Activating a Teaching-Learning Philosophy. To me that says “doing something about your teaching-learning philosophy.” Unfortunately, our current use of teaching philosophy statements doesn’t usually contain that expectation. taking a course intended to prepare them to teach.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

At poetry readings in particular, I lean into the words that a poet shares before or after reading each poem. I pulled the word “paratext” from the field of poetry translation because, personally, I love the “paratext” that precedes or follows a poem—or even interrupts it. Paratext helps me connect with and make sense of the poem.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

As a classroom teacher, I always tried to improve my practice by reading academic and practice-based articles, attending trainings and connecting with fellow educators to share resources and troubleshoot challenges. The ability to learn and grow is part of what made teaching dynamic and energizing for me. I love learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2022

Set up a digital portfolio that includes the following categories: Teaching philosophy. Based on your experience, come up with a short paragraph that describes your philosophy of teaching. Take a few evenings to read about the state of education. I’ve gotten lots of contacts from LinkedIn. What to include.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Maybe you were curled up by the fire, reading a good book, and perhaps considering how you were going to integrate feedback, change up your courses, and add some jazz, flavor, and maybe a little bit of spice to your courses. I would like to take you on a bit of a journey – back to mid-December when we were on winter break.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

He also discussed his teaching style and why it’s important for educators to share vulnerability with their students. Read the lightly edited transcript of the interview here. Does the book reflect your own teaching style or teaching philosophy? Is that how you teach?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI. They could always find and read the content on their own. that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. Faculty Focus.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

They want to read and write and think. Charlotte Matthews “These folks come with lots of experiences, whether it’s from jobs or family life, and maybe nobody’s taken the time to really hear their story yet,” says associate professor Charlotte Matthews, who teaches Transformations. Yet many of the students want more than that, too.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my confusion, I began reading for curiosity rather than exams. 1 That moment of reading was transformative. To accompany this teaching philosophy, I adopt ungrading 2 in all my courses. If students want to know how well they did in an assignment, they must read my feedback. But when I graduated, I felt lost.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

To give just two examples, close reading activities and class discussions might be neither experiential nor applied, but they each offer pedagogical benefits by building up students skills within their discipline. In arguing for the importance of both of these approaches, I dont mean to insinuate that other types of learning hold no value.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 7, 2025

To give just two examples, close reading activities and class discussions might be neither experiential nor applied, but they each offer pedagogical benefits by building up students skills within their discipline. In arguing for the importance of both of these approaches, I dont mean to insinuate that other types of learning hold no value.

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Scholarly Teacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The paid version of ChatGPT has been continually upgraded and can also create and read images, transcribe voice conversations, and create code in multiple languages (OpenAI, n.d.). Introduction Generative AI in higher education has been widely discussed following the record-breaking uptake of ChatGPT in November 2022 (Dwivedi et al.,

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Anyone reading this article probably bases their teaching on learner-centeredness and may even aspire to create a transformative learning environment in their classroom. But I’m not daunted by the work to come, because the biggest challenge is behind me: acknowledging that I still have much to learn about teaching. We need them.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Anyone reading this article probably bases their teaching on learner-centeredness and may even aspire to create a transformative learning environment in their classroom. But I’m not daunted by the work to come, because the biggest challenge is behind me: acknowledging that I still have much to learn about teaching. We need them.

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Learning Outcomes Instructors Learning Students 59

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Set up a digital portfolio that includes the following categories: Teaching philosophy. Based on your experience, come up with a short paragraph that describes your philosophy of teaching. Take a few evenings to read about the state of your education field. I’ve gotten lots of contacts from LinkedIn.

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Teaching Philosophy Knowledge Feedback Languages 71

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

EdSurge recently connected with Hershovitz to hear why he thinks it’s important to nurture philosophy in kids throughout school and college, and what advice he has for educators about how to do it. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. EdSurge: What’s an example of how kids think like philosophers?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. One of the writers, Dan Schofield, picked up a little book I'd written on death and read it, recommended it to Mike Schur [the show’s creator]. What are the benefits of doing this over reading a philosophy text, say? Todd May: Actually it was purely luck.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

It’s often said that teaching and learning doesn’t always take place in the classroom—some of the most important lessons are learned on the playground, in the street, on the job or somewhere else. The same is true for educators, whose teaching philosophies are often shaped by moments that happened when they weren't in front of the classroom.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

It was fulfilling to read about how they connected to the content we learned together, the activities we engaged in, and the missions and assignments they completed. Reflections At the end of the Fall 2023 semester, we asked the students in our classes about their favorite memories from the semester (see Engage the Sage, 2023a). Renken, M.S.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 25, 2024

It was fulfilling to read about how they connected to the content we learned together, the activities we engaged in, and the missions and assignments they completed. Reflections At the end of the Fall 2023 semester, we asked the students in our classes about their favorite memories from the semester (see Engage the Sage, 2023a). Renken, M.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2025

Discovering a New Perspective Everything changed during my second year of teaching when I enrolled in a multicultural education course as part of my M.Ed. The course, led by professor Cathy Chappell, challenged my views and inspired a new teaching philosophy.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Your engagement with these topics may take the form of assigned readings and/or videos, class discussions, and/or assignments. Consider alternative readings or activities, when possible. See below for an example: Upon reviewing the course syllabus, you will see that our course covers content that may be emotionally difficult.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Your engagement with these topics may take the form of assigned readings and/or videos, class discussions, and/or assignments. Consider alternative readings or activities, when possible. See below for an example: Upon reviewing the course syllabus, you will see that our course covers content that may be emotionally difficult.

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Syllabus Course Design Instructors Teaching Philosophy 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

I used to read these Choose Your Own Adventure books when I was a kid. For anyone who has not read them, you go and you get to page 7 and it says, "now you get to make a choice, do you want to go up the mountain, or down by this tree.” Yeah, possibly some of us might be able to be a guide around digital literacy.

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