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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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So what has he learned in more than 20 years from applying his persistence (and much of the money he won from the Nobel) to studying teaching? EdSurge connected with Wieman to find out, and to hear about his more recent efforts to improve how teaching evaluations are done at colleges to make them more useful — and more equitable.

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U. of Florida Asks Students to Use App to Report Profs Who Don‘t Teach In Person

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From decades of scholarship on [anonymous] teaching evaluations, we know that this kind of app without due process is going to be aimed more at faculty of color and faculty who teach courses that are controversial, i.e. Black Lives Matter,” he said.

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Adjusting to Emergency Online Instruction Poses Extra Challenges For Adjunct Faculty

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And it stresses that staff should be protected against “the punitive use of negative teaching evaluations during the period of the disruption.” That’s a serious concern, Hardy explains, because "for many adjuncts, they are judged solely on student course evaluations.”

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Why Professors Should Ask Students For Feedback Long Before the Semester Is Over

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And research shows that professors who collect early-term feedback, and who use it to make changes to their courses with the help of a consultant, can raise their end-of-semester teaching evaluations. It’s one of the most effective approaches for changing teacher practices,” Gorman says. “In

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16 Education Podcasts to Check Out In 2017

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Though the main focus is teaching (as the name makes clear), she also devotes some episodes to tips on improving personal productivity (there’s plenty of talk about a technique she likes called GTD, or Getting Things Done).

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

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Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Memories of that disheartening quarter still make my stomach turn, but I have recovered and learned to use my course evaluations as a tool for growth.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

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[Audience question] Has there been any conversation in higher ed about technology integration being part of faculty evaluation? Pickus: At the two institutions I’m working with, the focus is, we are going to do teaching evaluations because we want to learn from this process, but we will again hold harmless the faculty.

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