ED 262 Research, Reference & Resource Skills

What's so important about asking students questions while teaching, and why is it so hard for teachers to do this consistently? What are some of the most time-efficient ways to check all students' understanding, and what's at stake when we fail to formatively assess students?

As universities shift online, experts worry that disadvantaged and disabled students may slip through the cracks

We are in the midst of the most sweeping education experiment in history. The coronavirus pandemic has forced the majority of the U.S.’s 3.6 million educators to find ways to teach without what most of them consider the core part of their craft—the daily face-to-face interactions that help them elicit a child’s burning desire to investigate something; detect confusion or a lack of engagement; and find the right approach, based on a student’s body language and participation in the classroom, to help students work through their challenges.

The good news is that this is happening at the end of the school year, after teachers have had opportunities to build relationships with their students. And in the past few decades, many educators have been experimenting with some promising technology-enabled approaches, sometimes called “hybrid,” or “personalized learning” models—essentially, a mix of in-person and online learning.

Looking to do a PhD can be really confusing, I know it was for me, and that is okay. If I had let a lack of understanding of the structures and processes of higher education stop me from following my desire to continue to learn, and study, then I wouldn’t have the two degrees I…