Teachers can significantly improve if their preparation programs invest marginally more effort into preparing field supervisors. Field supervision is ubiquitous throughout teacher preparation ...

AI has quietly worked its way into almost every corner of teaching. Lesson planning, assessment design, rubric creation, ...

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. I was describing my ...

This is the first part of a two-part story about changing classroom culture. Read part two to learn what change this teacher made to help students value growth over grades. Over winter break in 2015, ...

Student feedback can be broadly categorized as summative or formative. Summative feedback, such as RIT’s Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness (SRATE), is gathered at the conclusion of a course ...

What method would you prefer to use for gathering feedback, and what makes it the best choice for your needs? An online form (e.g., Google Forms or Canvas). A quick in-class poll (e.g., Poll ...

It’s been a year since ChatGPT stormed into classrooms. Its most common users have been students looking for homework aid—or shortcuts—and teachers who use it to create tailored, on-the-spot lesson ...

Want to know how your class is going? Just ask your students! Gathering feedback throughout the semester provides you with multiple checks on the student experience and allows you to make adjustments ...

University Lecturer Antti Laaksonen is a teacher and researcher in computer science at the Faculty of Science on Kumpula campus. His own research area, algorithmics, is strongly represented in his ...

A four-step process teaches students how to use GenAI tools to brainstorm ideas, understand and act on feedback and edit ...

The advice to focus on student comments is aligned with the 2019 findings of a faculty senate task force charged with evaluating the state of S-RATEs, RIT's system of student evaluation of instruction ...

Formative feedback to identify students’ strengths and weaknesses as well as improvement opportunities, while they are still learning, is more valuable than a final grade. The same holds true for ...