The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 23, 2022

The “normal” classroom is not one where every 8-year-old is meeting 8-year-old developmental markers, or where every 15 year old has the same reading level. How do you manage a classroom where “average” feels like it’s lost meaning? This is reality. This is a good thing! After all, isn’t it only fair if everyone gets the same test?

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 23, 2022

Over the last several years, I have done a lot of work with active learning classrooms (ALCs). These are classroom spaces that are intentionally designed to optimize active learning and amplify its positive effects. I told the student to tune in to the Zoom feed instead of missing class.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

APRIL 20, 2022

Sometimes it's through a flipped learning workshop, or a talk about teaching with technology, and so on. What if we had some way of knowing just how prevalent, or not, the use of active learning in actual classroom instruction is at an institution? So, what if somebody did collect data on this ? I greatly enjoy this gig.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2018

All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. Via Inside Higher Ed : “High Default Rates at New York For-Profit Colleges.” ” Via The Washington Post : “After backlash over plan to cut 13 humanities majors, U-Wisconsin campus drawing up second proposal.”

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