eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

As November 8 th approached, I made sure to leave extra class time to allow my communications students to discuss the upcoming presidential election, hoping to align their discussions with topics on my syllabus. My only rule was that they were to be respectful in their comments.

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Syllabus Teachers Counselling Beliefs 226

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 31, 2023

Recently, I attended a conference and was sharing my new visual syllabus with some colleagues. After several interactions, I noticed the most frequent comment was, “What a cool syllabus…but is it accessible?” A little background about myself; I love designing, redesigning, and getting creative with my syllabus.

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Syllabus Accessibility Quizzes Disabilities 98

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a teacher who strives to help students uncover their interests and stretch their imaginations, I wanted to ensure they were participating in this new technology. Going from zero to hero Just days before our fall semester started, I learned that I’d been assigned mythology—a subject I’d not taught before and one without a syllabus.

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English Syllabus Assignments Intelligence 338

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

But lessons on social-emotional learning aren’t typically found in a classroom syllabus. Related : SEL is critical–but teachers rarely have time to address it 4 engaging strategies that promote student SEL. So, how do we as educators actively foster these qualities in our students?

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Science Syllabus Students Math 319

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It’s back to school season, and these teachers are excited. For the past few years, teachers have been sparing the printer and turning them into infographic syllabi. This year, though, San Diego English teacher Jen Roberts challenged herself to turn a fellow teacher’s creation into a collaborative, sharable template. “I

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Syllabus Teachers Course Outline English 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

As a graduate student and teacher, I’m only known to my students from the collarbones up, so everything within the camera frame is appropriate, clean, and gives off that put-together vibe. Students and teachers are lonely, isolated, depressed. My syllabus had a no-technology policy and it wasn’t perfect, but it helped.

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Teachers Syllabus Schools Students 213

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

One significant development is collaborative e-learning, which integrates social interactions among peers and teachers. From podcasts, YouTube captions, personalized learning dashboards, and social annotation, teachers now have a variety of e-learning methods at their disposal.

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Learning Universal Design Syllabus Quizzes 309

eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Planners that break down assignments, scaffolded note-taking templates, or even a syllabus can make all the difference in setting clear expectations. Equally, because many students with dyslexia grapple with executive function skills, it’s helpful to offer tools that support organization.

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Reading Syllabus Learning Intelligence 309

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

For my most of my teaching career, I was the only teacher of color in my building. I once expressed to the principal my hope that she would be considering teachers of color as candidates for an opening in our English department. Of all my identities, teacher had been at the top on the list for so long, and now I was quitting.

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Culture Teachers Schools Syllabus 166

eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

If they don’t receive feedback from the teacher saying otherwise, or if they receive one short “good job” post to a comment, they tend to start thinking of their contributions as individual notes to the teacher, instead of as contributions to a whole-classroom discussion. This models what we’d like students to do.

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Education Syllabus Instructors Feedback 279

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Even the best teachers fail on a regular basis, but good ones learn from those hiccups and adjust. Verify that your syllabus contains statements that reflect your values in this area. The text of your syllabus and course design. And the subtext of your syllabus. Put another way, both teaching and learning are messy.

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Syllabus Teaching Beliefs Instructors 156

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 289

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Media Lit: A Make-or-Break Competency for Teachers : As students engage more and more with media, how are they to make sense of what’s reliable—or not? Researchers from three universities and Sesame Workshop offer a primer on what teachers should know. And how are educators supposed to prepare to teach media literacy lessons?

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Syllabus Science Learning Styles Testing 115

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2024

We then use these responses to solidify the course syllabus as a living document that prioritizes the voices and narratives absent from their previous experiences in the English department. These experiences continue to shape my commitments in the classroom, emphasizing that teachers must recognize the full humanity of their students.

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Syllabus English Learning Students 196

eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2020

That means educators of all types, including tutors, teachers, private language instructors, or parents homeschooling their children, can take advantage of the following resources for free until July 31: Their vocabulary learning tool, powered by a spaced-repetition algorithm. Available only in certain language pairs.

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Language Languages Learning Tools Syllabus 185

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I grew tired of uploading the syllabus as a file within our LMS, only to need to upload a new version every single semester. I then found myself needing to send out a revised syllabus to her and once again having to upload a revision to the LMS. I would name it something like syllabus-BUSN114.pdf syllabus-BUSN114.pdf)

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Syllabus Mobile Devices Learning Assignments 136

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Instead of handing students a syllabus with a set of class rules, engage your students in the process of co-constructing classroom agreements about behaviors. So, how do we help students make responsible decisions? 5 Strategies Designed to Help Students Make Responsible Decisions. Strategy #1: Co-construct Classroom Agreements.

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Learning Syllabus Evaluation Discussions 370

eSchool News

JULY 12, 2023

The CDP is an online portal where teachers access and navigate Ellipsis courses. Designed to be mobile-responsive, the CDP makes the curriculum teachers know and love easier to use. We hope that teachers will find this delivery tool efficient to use and attractive to view,” said Dr. Whitney Dove, CEO at Ellipsis Education.

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Curriculum Syllabus Education Science 194

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 11, 2024

She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, webmaster for four blogs, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, contributor to NEA Today , and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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Gamification Syllabus Education History 183

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Introduce Social Annotation as a Means to Engage Writer, teacher, and Harvard Ph.D. The Marginal Syllabus project is just one example of the power of this type of collaboration. The project’s aim is to gather teachers together to discuss equity in educational contexts. These notes may be shared publicly or saved privately.

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Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 163

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Yet, by 1979, nine million children were watching the show , and kindergarten teachers had to upgrade their curricula because children were showing up knowing their ABCs and numbers and eager to learn more. If you are a classroom educator, you might consider adding a note in your syllabus about the appropriate use of AI tools (example here ).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 336

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Teachers are moving online without feeling the confidence, preparedness, and support to effectively teach in this completely different way. That’s a lot of pressure on teachers to not mess this up. We can allow students the flexibility to learn at their own pace when instruction is no longer bound to a strict teacher-paced timeline.

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Blended Learning Failure Syllabus Schools 196

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2020

That puts such tools out of reach for most teachers looking for new ways to provide their students with personalized support. “No Called Agent Smith , it’s an artificially intelligent system that absorbs information from a course syllabus and uses it to build a Jill Watson customized to that class. You can do it your way.

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Teaching Intelligence Syllabus Learning 215

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2020

In her syllabus written before the pandemic, she had planned a final exam with a series of physics problems for students to work out. It keeps everyone from administrators and teachers to students and parents connected from homeroom to home. But that just didn’t feel right with all that her students were going through. Learn more.

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Exams Essay Syllabus Writing 182

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

A few repositories like the Open Syllabus Project collect syllabi from around the world. The goal was to highlight key points from the readings and also give a sense of her personality as a teacher. “I It showed me you can still have a personable teacher-student relationship” in an online course, she says.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. I shared something called “ Meet the Teacher.” So, I moved onto showing them the “About Your Instructor” icon in our LMS.

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Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 116

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements. I always begin my syllabus with an inclusive and inspirational quote. The teacher facilitates this rotation to keep the activity dynamic and engaging. I incorporate graphs and charts to clarify grading.

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Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 121

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. Introductions and low-stake interactions in the syllabus, in your communications, and in class can reduce intimidation and help students get ready to learn. Introduce yourself as a scholar and teacher. So, when faculty come to me with a problem, they want an answer.

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 122

Faculty Focus

MARCH 14, 2023

The following includes a few strategies and examples to ensure clarity: A clear, inclusive syllabus with a course calendar of class activities, routines, materials, links to rubrics, etc. Designing an inclusive syllabus. link] (retrieved January 2, 2023). CEI (2022). Learning science principles for instructors. Columbia CTL (2022).

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Syllabus Exams Instructors Assignments 131

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Successful syllabus While there are mandatory components of a standard syllabus, I also add welcoming elements. I always begin my syllabus with an inclusive and inspirational quote. The teacher facilitates this rotation to keep the activity dynamic and engaging. I incorporate graphs and charts to clarify grading.

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Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 109

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

“It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. He summed up his view in a recent post he titled, “ Generative AI is Best at Something Teachers Need Least.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

For example, a philosophy professor at University of Notre Dame designed an introductory course that draws on “ interactive digital essays ” published on mobile-friendly web pages attached to the online syllabus, reports Inside Higher Ed. Of course, these programs may take significant time to develop. LA schools did indeed close.

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Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 212

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Most teachers aren’t adept at matching colors, picking fonts and font sizes, and then laying everything out artistically. It’s much easier to use text with a few pictures tossed in and leave the artistry for the art teacher. Educators: Visit Canva for Education to get how-tos, lesson plans, and teacher-oriented advice.

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Syllabus Knowledge Achievement Math 171

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 15, 2024

For some, planning revolves around syllabus revision, closing loopholes, and adjusting dates. When times abundant, some teachers read books like Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design , a thoughtful, research-based system. Dr. Seuss Careful planning minimizes this stress for the teacher and students.

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Syllabus Exams Course Outline Attention 105

Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

The first day or week of the semester is often referred to as what students call “syllabus week,” because professors typically spend the first day of class reviewing the syllabus—interject a big yawn here. I shared something called “ Meet the Teacher.” So, I moved onto showing them the “About Your Instructor” icon in our LMS.

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Student Engagement Activities Syllabus Instructors 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Our cities are growing in diversity at an exponential rate, but our teacher workforce is not. Close to 30 percent of Providence students are English Language Learners, and yet most of them are being taught by teachers who don’t speak their native language. Enter F.E.E.D. Haven’t heard of it? Don’t be surprised.

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Culture Education Syllabus Attention 167

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. Introductions and low-stake interactions in the syllabus, in your communications, and in class can reduce intimidation and help students get ready to learn. Introduce yourself as a scholar and teacher. So, when faculty come to me with a problem, they want an answer.

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Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities 98