A blog for education professionals designed to help you think about effective practice and trends in education, as well as consider what teaching and learning might look like in the future.
Classroom teachers juggle multiple roles and responsibilities in and out of school. These steps help teachers balance family, work, and school commitments. Read more: Creating Balance in School, Work, and Life
Concrete strategies to promote intrinsic motivation and student agency Read more: Empowering Students to be Intrinsically Motivated
As the leader of a fully online institution of higher education that constantly looks to the future in an effort to anticipate how we should and will evolve in order to meet the needs of learners, I read with great... Read more: The Instructional Challenge of Higher Education
It has been a consistent narrative in education conferences for the past ten to fifteen years: "we need to become more agile, more innovative, more digital, adopt a growth mindset, and focus more on the user..." I have attended a... Read more: Competing Commitments
Education endures even when school buildings close. Classrooms across the world feel the impacts of COVID-19 as students and teachers face the challenge of creating community and facilitating learning virtually. In the wake of this global pandemic, educators search for... Read more: Creating Student-Centered Virtual Classrooms
As teachers, we have a choice in the way we approach the complexities of our transition to socially distant or virtual education. We can view this transition as an insurmountable obstacle or as a problem with viable solutions. We have... Read more: Mindsets Matter: The Power of Perseverance and Compassion
What is at the heart of what it means to learn? Is education just about performing skills and meeting standards? What has the reality of responding to COVID-19 shown us in examining these questions, and what should we take with... Read more: To Learn or to Perform?
According to an article in Inside Higher Ed, the majority of survey questions focused on how instructors changed their teaching practices, as well as their approaches to students. Given that TEACH-NOW is a graduate school of education, where we bring... Read more: Has Teaching Really Changed in the Forced Shift to Online?
TEACH-NOW Instructor, Jessica Alexander shares her expertise to familiarize her fellow educators with Zoom and its features. You can also find links to her helpful tutorial videos. Read more: Zoom Tips and Tricks