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10 steps to becoming a qualified permaculture teacher, and recommended teacher training programs, from the PWG Faculty.| Permaculture Womens Guild
10 steps to becoming a qualified permaculture teacher, and recommended teacher training programs, from the PWG Faculty.| Permaculture Womens Guild
I taught this course at Wesleyan University in Spring 2025 to a class of 15 students, mostly seniors and sophomores. I was tasked the previous semester with developing a philosophy course that would count toward the animal studies minor. My goal was to take an expansive approach to animal philosophy, meant to demonstrate that this […] The post Race and Animals, Maya von Ziegesar first appeared on Blog of the APA.| Blog of the APA
In the fast-paced, demanding world of college education, joy might not be the first thing that comes to mind when we think about teaching. But bringing joy into the classroom can make a real difference; it boosts student engagement, sparks creativity, and supports academic success. Joyful learning is about building a space where curiosity can […] The post From Lectures to Laughter: Strategies to Spark Joy in the Classroom appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.| Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning
The longer a teacher talks for, the more likely it is the number of pupils paying attention decreases. The trick to sustaining attention is to ask pupils questions and to expect 100% participation DURING an explanation. Questions interrupt the loss of attention. If done well, questions do not interrupt the flow of your explanation, as … Continue reading Choral Response and ‘I Say You Say’| Bunsen Blue
Let’s indulge in two thought experiments. Scenario 1. Imagine you have no data about a class you start to teach in September. You have no knowledge about their prior attainment and no knowledge about what they have learned before. You don’t know what their behaviour is going to be like or what they are predicted … Continue reading Do your pupils work hard enough?| Bunsen Blue
‘Turn & talk’ is one of the techniques I use most in my classroom – perhaps 20 or more times in any given 50-minute lesson. I recently shared a clip of what this might look like on Twitter (click here). My strategy for explicit instruction involves asking questions in three phases. Phase 1 questions include … Continue reading Turn and Talk| Bunsen Blue
Have you ever delivered a really clear teacher explanation and used lots of checks for listening to ensure your class was paying attention, only to find that when you ask your class a question to check for understanding they respond with: In this blog, I explore why this happens and what we can do to … Continue reading The Three Phases of Questioning| Bunsen Blue
It is natural for students to lose attention during an explanation. In this post, I share two of the highest leverage strategies you can use to secure 100% attention. I explain why this should be our goal in my previous post. Strategy 1: All Hands Up Cold Calling I disagree with the way lots of … Continue reading Checks for Listening: 100% Participation| Bunsen Blue
At any given moment in a lesson students are either engaged or they are coasting. When they are engaged, students are paying attention, thinking hard and learning. When they are daydreaming, off-ta…| Bunsen Blue
Student mapping projects become an opportunity for better student engagement in Molly Nebiolo's courses.| The Panorama
Shannan Mason offers a complete, two day lesson plan on women and the American Revolution featuring Lauren Duval's recent article from The Pano.| The Panorama
Check out recent Pano pieces on teaching to find inspiration for your classroom.| The Panorama
“…AI mirrors amplify and normalize our biases, reinforce our most polarizing opinions and most aggressive stances, and boost the visibility of our most uninformed “hot takes:’ In doing so they reflect back to us images of human civic agency so distorted in their form…that actual political behavior drifts closer and closer to the originally distorted […]| Academic Technology Solutions
Creative writing pedagogy can enrich vocational teaching by emphasizing process over product, embracing failure, and prioritizing revision. This approach fosters courage, openness, and trust in students while encouraging them to take risks and learn from their mistakes. Ultimately, self-trust and experimentation lead to personal and professional growth.| vocation matters
In building an atmosphere of trust between instructors and students, it is vital to set clear expectations. Research bears this out: a 2025 survey of students carried out by Inside Higher Ed found that 34% of respondents considered “clear, consistent expectations” to be a priority in building classroom trust. But how to achieve this goal? It begins, as with so much else in the classroom experience, with the syllabus.| Academic Technology Solutions
The article discusses the integration of vocational discernment into a physics course at Pacific Lutheran University, inspired by a faculty workshop. Students engage in activities to explore their values and career paths alongside academic learning. The author emphasizes the importance of considering your cultural commute and the broader implications of vocational choices on your community of origin.| vocation matters
Today’s Muster continues our series Teaching the Civil War. Each post in the series has examined a different method that college and K-12 teachers have used to make the Civil War era come alive in the classroom. In Todays ‘s post, University of South Dakota professor Lindsey Peterson explores teaching the history of emancipation through the Civil War & … Read More Read More| The Journal of the Civil War Era
By Bonnie Shishko and Shawn Bowers As college professors with three combined decades of First-Year Writing experience, we’re observing two unsettling trends: first, that traditional undergraduate students are increasingly unlikely to tackle academic writing without relying on AI-tools, and second, that they are increasingly likely to hold rigid beliefs about writing—what it is, what it … Continue reading Recipes as Pedagogical Resistance: Teaching Food Writing in an AI-Era →| The Recipes Project
A torsor (or principal homogeneous space) is, informally speaking, a mathematical structure quite similar to a group, but without a natural identity element. More formally, if is a group, a -torsor is a set on which acts simply and transitively, i.e., for every , there is a unique such that . Torsors are ubiquitous in […]| Matt Baker's Math Blog
If you’re looking for a seamless way to track class attendance while enhancing student engagement, Poll Everywhere offers robust features specifically designed for higher education environments. We have outlined several strategies you can use with Poll Everywhere to streamline attendance tracking. Poll Everywhere allows you to take attendance during live sessions by recording student responses. […]| Academic Technology Solutions
“A computing system that permits the asking of only certain kinds of questions, that accepts only certain kinds of ‘data,’ and that cannot even in principle be understood by those who rely on it, such a computing system has effectively closed many doors that were open before it was installed:’ – Joseph Weizenbaum, creator of […]| Academic Technology Solutions
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Creative writing pedagogy offers valuable insights for vocational teaching across disciplines. By emphasizing storytelling, community feedback, and personal narrative, educators can guide students in reflecting on their vocational journeys. Creative writing pedagogies foster specificity, helping students articulate their experiences while navigating challenges like self-doubt and imposter syndrome.| vocation matters
Best practices, which aim to standardize teaching and flatten the differences between students, are anathema to pedagogy.| Jesse Stommel
I originally planned on following up on my group projects assignment within a week, but got distracted by semantics. I’ll probably put that in another piece some day. Like many people, I conflate t…| educationrealist
Introduction to This Blog Series Few aspects of teaching are as vital to your course’s success as classroom trust. For your students to remain engaged with your subject matter, they need to know that you see them as people and that you’re genuinely invested in their success. This connection between you and your students doesn’t […]| Academic Technology Solutions
Linda Nilson argues that our current grading system is fundamentally broken—it fails to reflect what students actually learn, burdens faculty with time-consuming and subjective decisions, and fuels stress and grade disputes. In Specifications Grading (2014), she proposes a compelling alternative: Specifications (specs) grading, a system built on clear, pass/fail criteria tied directly to learning outcomes. […]| Academic Technology Solutions
What do we mean by “feedback”? Is it useful? Is it (like revenge) better served cold? And what has this to do with Bjork’s new theory of disuse? Continue reading →| Ed Tech Now
Systematic pedagogy is not defeated by the complexity of the classroom: it is the solution Continue reading →| Ed Tech Now
Marcus Collins (Loughborough) and I just published some of the findings of the Post-Pandemic Pedagogy project. We investigated what history students and lecturers thought about teaching during the …| Making Digital History
College courses, unlike most high school courses, require students to engage in a good deal of independent learning. What they do outside of class is essential to their learning, and it requires both motivation and time management, as well as an understanding of academic skills and resources available to them as students. In high school,| Blog of the APA
While a lot of “group work” is forced, group projects are an essential part of education. And while freeloaders are a problem, they aren’t the only personality type that needs han…| educationrealist
I’ve written a piece for Cracks in Postmodernity about the decline of the academy. It’s focused around the problem of bad lecturing. More fundamentally, it’s about the inability of the university system to legitimate itself to young people. There’s no paywall. You can read it here: https://cracksinpomo.substack.com/p/professors-stop-blaming-your-students| Benjamin Studebaker
or, Last Summer a DJ Saved My Life “Hip Hop does work that a lot of other things don’t do” Young Guru (viii). The way that we imagine English Studies, specifically Composition and Rhetoric (Comp/Rhet), today needs a radical shift. Specifically, we need new techniques for Writing Studies pedagogy to reach students in a more meaningful […]| Sounding Out!
By Glenn Wallis. The Perverse Based on my personal observation, I think it’s generally fair to characterize the student-professor relationship in higher education as: perverted. I mean this in the sense of twisted, contorted, abnormal, corrupted. Picture an image in a hall of mirrors. That grotesque figure captures that of the generic person mutated into the institutional role-player. So, […]| Incite Seminars
By Glenn Wallis. Let’s create some contrast and tension at the outset and first say how not to love your students. Or, put otherwise, let’s say: How to Hate Your Students Hate: from Proto-Germanic hatis, to treat with hostility. That’s easy: lecture; grade; assign papers; offer the scantiest of feedback on assignments; break down the student’s “performance” into […]| Incite Seminars
By João França. Sometimes it seems like we can only talk about education in the positive, but Henry Giroux also gives a name to what we want to leave behind, and for that reason he talks about the “pedagogies of repression.” “Education is not just about empowering people, the practice of freedom, it’s also in some ways […]| Incite Seminars
By Colman McCarthy. Colman McCarthy is a former Washington Post columnist. He has taught courses in peace studies for over twenty years at numerous colleges and high schools. He is also the founder and director of the Center for Teaching Peace. His essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Readers Digest, and the Catholic Worker. […]| Incite Seminars
Four Johns Hopkins faculty recently attended the National Effective Teaching Institute workshop. At a Center for Teaching Excellence and Innovation discussion this spring, each faculty member shared lessons learned as they presented a quick overview of a main topic in the workshop.| The Innovative Instructor
Learning is an active process. Too often, I encounter students who believe they can simply sit, passively in a lesson and absorb what is being taught, without having to do anything. And to a degree…| MBDscience
I’ve changed my mind. I used to categorise my student of three groups – Ps, Cs and neither. My Ps, these are my prerequisite students. They are the ones I am going to first. They constitute approximately one third of the class. These are the students who, if they don’t have the prerequisite knowledge, I […]| MBDscience
Do you have a topic that is so interesting you wished you could do an entire class on it? Or maybe wonder what students really thought about an issue? Maybe you wished you could debate a student in a comfortable low-pressure environment? Podcasting is the answer you have been looking for! Whether it’s discussing new concepts or debating opinions, integrating podcasts as educational tools can bring new types of engagement into your classroom. | Academic Technology Solutions
Rethinking assessment practices offers an opportunity to move beyond "teaching to the test" and create deeper, more meaningful learning experiences.| Challenge Success
The Writings Of Alfie Kohn| Alfie Kohn
In my philosophy courses, I largely give take-home writing assignments. These are either focused on the course readings (no research required beyond the syllabus) or not (so they require students to do outside reading). Usually, I have 5-7 of the former (1,000-1,500 words) and 1-or-2 research papers (2,000-2,500 words if it is one long paper,…| Blog of the APA
Relatively few philosophers specialize in the philosophy of religion, but many teach an introductory problems course in which one usual topic is the existence of God. The routine approach is to present and assess the three traditional arguments for the existence of God. Then the focus shifts to the problem of evil, after which the…| Blog of the APA
The data is clear: Most students are not fully engaged in their learning. Here are 5 ways to use pedagogy to increase engagement!| Challenge Success
While most curricula revolving around tarbiyyah favor realities—the practice of prophets (may peace be upon them) and pious predecessors (may Allah have mercy on them)—there are growing opportuniti…| Traversing Tradition
Introducing foundational ethical theories can be a dreaded task for instructors; thwarting off cultural relativism and fielding questions such as “Yeah, but does this REALLY matter?” However, I am always excited to have the opportunity to challenge my students, most of whom have never taken a philosophy course before, to evaluate their deeply held convictions…| Blog of the APA
It’s back to school time y’all and Dr. Raptor is here to tell you why you’re bad at teaching (and what you can do about it). OK so maybe you aren’t a bad teacher, but I̵…| Tenure, She Wrote
“Let us show a little more compassion in our caring, an important lesson that this book advocates” (2024, 289). Like much of Kathryn Waddington and Bryan Bonaparte’s previous work, this book offers numerous practical insights into teaching with compassion at the University level. This collection of chapters engages with three overarching questions:| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
This is among my stupidest, but perhaps most spiritually effective teaching tricks. I teach these huge intro ethics classes. Many of the students find the process really really emotionally intense, and some report getting deeply freaked out by certain questions. … Continue reading →| Objectionable
I was going to hold off on these until the book comes out next year, but there has been enough recent interest on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/gamingthepast.bsky.social/post/3lfkff3yow22a) that I decided to put my most recent rubrics up. Please share widely and credit me when you do so I can help more people get into powerful experiential and […]| Gaming the Past
One way to teach Medical Ethics courses is to start with theory and then work through a series of pro/con pieces on abortion, euthanasia, using non-human animals in research, organ markets, etc. It’s a standard approach and for good reason: it introduces students to the moral aspects of these debates and helps them critically assess…| Blog of the APA
A short, tiredness-fuelled rant. I love science. I find chemistry so logically fascinating that I could do mole calculations for hours in the same way some people do those adult colouring books. My…| MBDscience
‘We would have brought architecture back to its proper calling, as the art of settlement, in which people build their shelters side by side, and at the same time create the public spaces that are t…| A Communist in Hong Kong
by Erika Kalocsányiová and Rania Hassan Promoting sustainability literacy in higher education is crucial for deepening students’ pro-environmental behaviour and mindset (Buckler & Creech, 2014;…| SRHE Blog
by Sam Spiegel How can online learning programmes help tackle systemic global injustices with creative pedagogies? How can universities build effective educational environments and pedagogies to su…| SRHE Blog
As a profession – perhaps driven by parents – we are increasingly concerned with the anxiety levels of our students. I have lost count of the number of times I have been told not to col…| MBDscience
Those who pursue a professorial career typically follow a path from high school to college to graduate school to faculty membership. Rarely noted, however, is that along the way the attributes of academic success change. To excel in high school calls for absorbing materials from various areas of inquiry, including mathematics, science, history, literature, and…| Blog of the APA
While these inequalities were not caused by computers, they may well be reproduced and even accentuated by their use. We examine here three areas in which these problems arise: hardware, software, and classroom use. We present more examples on the third area because it is more apt to be overlooked in discussions of equity in computer use, and because the process by which inequalities are produced is more subtle.| Science for the People Archives
Our observations and interviews were guided by a common set of orienting questions regarding the relationship between the characteristics of schools, the students they educate and the policies and practices of computer use in the five districts we studied. We found a very strong relationship between (1) the rationale for computer use, (2) the source of funding for computer acquisition, (3) the type of students who are educated using computers, and (4) the type of instruction presented to stud...| Science for the People Archives
Picture the scene. You’ve been teaching your year 9 class for three weeks, you’ve got to the end of a unit and have now completed the end of unit assessment*. Unfortunately, some of the students have done appallingly. What happens now? There are two possible scenarios at play here – either (1) you were blindsided […]| MBDscience
The ongoing debates on best practices in education have sparked confusion and frustration, particularly in the teaching of mathematics. Narrow and outdated evidence has led to a one-size-fits-all approach, overlooking the diverse needs of students. The focus should be on a balanced use of research and professional judgment. Pedagogy discussions should involve teachers and aim for consistency in teaching quality, not scripted lessons. Teachers need a diverse pedagogical toolbox and opportuniti...| Engaging Maths
I had a post published on the SEDA (Staff and Educational Development Association – the professional association for staff and educational developers in the UK) blog the other day. In it, I t…| Making Digital History
The last time I taught US History was in spring 2017, and it was the shit. Trump had just won and as my readers know, I live and teach in deepest of blue blue lands. Thirty students who’d nev…| educationrealist
Schools of education are among the most leftist, politicized jurisdictions on college campuses. Ed schools more often than not adopt the ideology of critical pedagogy to the exclusion of other … Continue reading "Florida Fights Education-School Radicalization"| The James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal
Wooclap, a developer of learning tools for education, has announced the winners of the 2024 edition of the Interactive Learning Olympics.| EFMD Global blog
In this episode, I’m defining what it means to build a team mindset and how to get students involved.| It's Not Rocket Science
As a published author of fictional works, I have often been asked the question ‘where do you get your ideas?’ The answer contains key elements related to listening to the world, to ways of seeing, and of ‘being’ in nature. This does not mean I write nature-based stories – it means that if my character … Continue reading "Becoming a tree"| JUICE
Micro-credentials are becoming a more and more sought-after form of lifelong learning to incorporate at universities. Discover what they are.| EFMD Global Blog
Adam Giese’s “Level up your .filter game” does something really interesting and helpful: it introduces a bunch of fairly sophisticated functional programming concepts without ever mentioning functional programming and without ever using any of the jargon associated with those terms. “Level up your .filter game” gives you a reason to use some standard FP tools—currying, higher-order functions, composition—in your ordinary work. It’s pitched at working JS developers. It gives a ...| Chris Krycho
By Lucy McInerney and Jenna Morton-Aiken, Brown University—If you were to walk into the Writing Fellows training classroom at Brown University at three minutes past 1:00 p.m. on any given Tuesday, you would find a darkened room littered with the bodies of students in repose. As you blinked down in confusion at the student closest to you, her head propped [...]| Another Word
March 4, 2024 Cognitive Load Theory An Unpersuasive Attempt to Justify Direct Instruction By Alfie Kohn [For a half-hour interview and discussion with Kohn about this essay, see this video.] A remarkable body of research…| Alfie Kohn
When I first began teaching in a tenure track position, my colleagues advised me that I had joined a department with a deep bench of knockout lecturers. One, I was told, could breeze through a deta…| After Class
Just a quick note to announce the publication of a couple of things. First, the report on the workshop that Michael Wuk and I ran in May, Reading Classics Online, which was published on the Council of University Classics Departments Education blog. Second, I wrote a piece for Times Higher Education on the barriers thatContinue reading More on digital reading: barriers and approaches (in Classics)| Making Digital History
Legend has it that in the olden days, back in the mists of time, teachers lectured at pupils. The curriculum under this reign of torpor was disconnected facts and children generally could not under…| Esse Quam Videri
Source Yesterday, Bridget Phillipson made a speech on the attendance crisis. Bolstered by research from the Centre for Social Justice (the hosts of this speech) and previous work from Public First,…| Will Yates Writing
I was talking to good friend of mine on the challenges of homeschooling. He is the father of a 2 and a 4-year-old, respectively, and he spoke about the challenges of working while teaching and play…| Urban Education Mixtape
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return. — W. H. Auden 1. What is a Jew? ‘Their barbaric acts are acts of evil. There are not two sides to …| A Communist in Hong Kong
While teaching through years of a global pandemic, Jessica Zeller says hopeful optimism can keep us centered on what we value: engaging with students.| Hybrid Pedagogy
One of my main goals in teaching second-language (L2) Spanish Literature courses is to develop non-traditional tasks that demonstrate the value of reading for the development of the target language…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
In 2020 I had the lofty goal of posting something new to the blog each month — and while I started out strong in January and February… for obvious global-pandemic-related reasons that p…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
For this post, I’m sharing details of my most recent article, “Snapping the Quijote: Examining L2 Literature, Social Media, and Digital Storytelling through a Cervantine Lens”, which was publ…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
Since this fall semester is clearly “unprecedented”, unpredictable, and a whole host of adjectives that are pretty much ALL stress-inducing, I am taking the opportunity to experiment in…| Rebecca M. Bender, PhD
In two weeks from today, 4 July 2018, the 11th annual conference of English as a Lingua Franca will take place in London, UK. We’re very excited to announce that the conference schedule is no…| ELF Pronunciation
April 20, 2023 Pay Attention, Class: Here Come More Facts for You to Forget By Alfie Kohn A.P. European History was the best-reviewed class in my old high school. The teacher was a kindly man…| Alfie Kohn
I’m delighted to share details of a new project I’m involved in. Colleagues from Botswana, Nigeria and Kenya are working together to investigate primay and secondary computing education…| Sue Sentance
Together with Jane Waite and Maria Kallia, I’ve recently published a new paper about PRIMM called Teaching computer programming with PRIMM: a sociocultural perspective There are 50 free eprin…| Sue Sentance
Today the latest TRACER report from Peter Kemp and colleagues was published. It’s excellent that the team have done so much digging into the data to be able to contrast different groups and s…| Sue Sentance
