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What did teachers write on before the invention of the chalkboard?

I read that the chalkboard was invented in the 19th century in the UK. What did teachers write on before the invention of the chalkboard?
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Department head has requested I lower student grades [duplicate]

I’ve been teaching a 4th year business elective for the past 8-years. Grades for my class generally range from about 57% - 94%, with the average at 86%. This current teaching year, the chair of my ...
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It is rude to offer a teacher the study guide you made for their class?

Is it rude to offer my professor a study guide I made for their class? I throughly enjoyed his class but the class he is teaching is extremely hard being it is a premed requirement. I made a study ...
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How do I tell the SLAC where I am visiting that I would like to not teach next semester? [duplicate]

I'm a fourth year student in Experimental Psychology who is dealing with major, unresolved mental health issues and major problems fulfilling my basic responsibilities. I'm finding myself under-...
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How do I identify and deal with waste-of-time assignments?

I'm a college student with an interest in tutoring and eventually teaching. I spend a lot of time in class watching my classmates get confused and thinking of better ways to teach the material; I ...
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Could my visiting instructor position be terminated due to low course reviews? Full time instructor position is not going well at all

I'm a fourth year doctoral student in Applied Experimental Psychology who earned a Master's prior to enrolling in my program (which my Ph.D program accepted on full). Long story short, my funding ran ...
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Tutoring Unfamiliar Material

Context: I've been tutoring in software development for the better part of this year. I've been a hobbyist and student software engineer for the last 3 years and I have decent experience in a few ...
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How to not feel guilty when reporting possible misconduct during exam/coursework as a teacher?

I am teaching a small class in my university. This is my first time, and as I am still a PhD student and the university was missing a teacher, I ended being selected to present it. It is a programming ...
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Student requests my presence while doing evaluation without grades

As a private tutor, a student has requested my presence during an evaluation that does not involve assigning grades. I'm unsure about the ethical implications of this. Could the community provide ...
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What is a "pedagogical reflection" in a teaching statement?

I am in the process of applying for an academic position in Europe. They have asked for a short pedagogical reflection in teaching statement, but I do not understand that. In the college that I am ...
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Advice on class teaching as a beginner with public-speaking anxiety

I am a first year PhD student in Mathematics and I am teaching a first year undergraduate tutorial-style class. I have done lots of one-on-one tutoring before and quite enjoyed it, but I am struggling ...
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How to handle a students' complaint of my teaching method?

I feel an international student has a grudge against me and has complained about me regarding my teaching methods etc. during lectures and that I read off the slides which I really don’t. The thing is,...
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Is it a good idea to email underperforming students?

Is it a good idea to email underperforming students? I am teaching an upper division class and a midterm is coming up. I looked at homework scores and noticed a few students who were not doing well. I ...
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What are examples of appropriate/smart strategies for professors to approach/deal with unmotivated students in class? [duplicate]

When I teach lower level undergraduate math classes (mandatory for general science/eigineering majors), there are always students wearing a dull expression and staying silent all the time. I can feel ...
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Is taking tests after each lecture a good idea?

Suppose I deliver a 1.5-hour lecture on Python programming on each Monday. Generally, the passing criteria is to take a comprehensive exam at the end of the semester. What if I eliminate the final ...
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Tutoring programs who accept teenagers [closed]

I am a 14-year-old college freshman at California State University Los Angeles. I want to get work experience so that my resume would look nice when I apply for jobs, and I think I would be a big shot ...
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Made a joke in poor taste without thinking in front of students. Is there anything I can do to salvage myself?

I am currently a full-time instructor at a SLAC and am teaching a two intro sections and a sports-psychology section. In my sports-psychology class today, I noticed that one of the emergency windows ...
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Can I pursue a PhD program that is different from my MA?

I have a Master's Degree in Translation, and I am wondering if it's possible to pursue a PhD in TESOL (Teaching English as a Second Language). They're in the same field, but different programs.
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ABD candidate who developed cognitive deficits. Current functioning level is "borderline" with average intelligence. Is there a way to navigate this?

I'm a fourth year neurodivergent doctoral candidate who is also an instructor for this academic year (one year contract). I have had a tendency to make a fair amount of posts related to my struggles (...
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New faculty. Already lagging on responsibilities bad. Any advice on coming back?

I'm a fourth year doctoral candidate who is ABD right now and recently got a full time position at a small liberal arts college (SLAC). So far, I'm not off to a great start. I showed up to orientation ...
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Is it normal, advisable and safe to work as a teacher in the UK (Scotland) without a contract?

While I am not an expert on the legal subject, I understand it is legal to work without a contract in the UK (although not very advisable as it is harder to defend your right). My University was ...
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In the U.S., is it appropriate for math professors to ask students to rewrite their messy (poorly handwritten) homework to be graded?

Many students write their math homework assignments in a messy, barely readable way. When I was a student TA/grader, I didn't have the right to ask them to rewrite them. But as a math instructor, I ...
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Should a TA position which requires teaching a class offer more money than one that doesn't?

I am currently a PhD student (international) at a University in the US (TX). I was offered a TA position, however the position requires me to work as an instructor of the course. I worked before as ...
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Dealing with entitled students

I am a new adjunct professor at a US university teaching calculus. I had a student complain during my first lecture and tell me that the order in which I was covering the material was wrong and that ...
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Guidance Needed on Teaching an Infinite Class

I am an instructor for a local CS class (online). We are trying something new. We are offering a 17 week program for CS (programing). The program is divided into 3 sections of 5 weeks each and then 2 ...
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Context based teaching

In areas such as information and computer science, what is meant by teaching in different contexts? I have noticed some teaching positions require a document detailing contexts one has taught in. I ...
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Are TAs supposed to get paid for hours it takes to grade?

I help students in a lab for 10 hours a week then have to grade their labs every other week. Does anyone know what the norm is? Are they supposed to assign grading hours for you as well?
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Should I include high school teaching activities in an academic CV?

I am a PhD student in economics. Before starting the PhD, I graduated with an MA in engineering. During my MA, I worked as a high school teacher in computer science. Should I list this activity on my ...
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Presenting teaching experiences and teaching plans in job talk

I have received an invitation to give a job talk for a tenure track Assistant Professor position in at a Agriculture university (U.S.). The position entails 80% research and 20% teaching ...
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Is it a problem if a professor doesn't release exam statistics?

This class is a natural science course and has 3 exams which total up to about half of the grade. Students have taken all three of the exams, and it is practically the end of the semester. There are ...
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Teaching high school math between PhD and postdoc

I am considering spending a few years, perhaps two or three, teaching math in a high school between completing a mathematics PhD and moving on to my first postdoc. My ultimate goal is a professorship, ...
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In general, do students like or dislike classes that are taught jointly?

This is a question that I originally posted to matheducators.stackexchange.com but it was suggested that I might get some more answers here. My department is considering using more than one lecturer (...
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masters thesis format for PhD application [closed]

There is a particular PhD application I am currently applying to a professor but he needs a copy of my masters thesis. How do I go about uploading? Am I uploading the whole master's thesis as it is, ...
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What kind of barriers will he face during the hiring process?

Suppose, someone did his bachelor's from the faculty of humanities, master's from the faculty of social science, and then received a Ph.D. in statistical mechanics and did postdocs in the same field. ...
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Building a Course Around One Written Assignment

Soon, I'll likely teach a stats methods course at the masters level as part of my policy PHD program. If it were up to me, the class would only have one or two assignments determining your grade (...
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Can I be a "Teaching Fellow" outside of the UK?

In the UK, a Teaching Fellow is a job position which has the same basic salary level of a postdoc, but allows permanent contracts and increases of salary because of seniority or important duties and ...
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About writing a letter of recommendation on behalf of the person you're requesting it from

I recently asked someone who observed my teaching to write me a letter of recommendation. She replied enthusiastically that she would be happy to help but was pressed for time. She asked me to write ...
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German Masters' level teaching (in math), seminar vs lecture

I have been told that there are 2 different styles of teaching Masters level courses in German university: Normal lecture course - the person gives a certain number of lectures (measured in semester ...
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Is it possible to teach two different courses that meet almost at the same time?

Next semester my schedule has two courses that meet at (almost) the same time. One course meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9-10 am and the other one meets from Monday to Wednesday and Friday at 9-...
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Can I get a teaching experience that matters to potential employer in this way?

This question seems related to my question, but it does not have an answer. I hope to get an answer by asking something more specific. I am a postdoc at a research-only institution whose only ...
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The challenge large language models (LLMs) pose to programming-based homework

I teach courses in which, as homework, students implement data analysis algorithms from scratch, apply them to real and simulated data, and then reflect on the results. As a student in such courses, I ...
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Giving instructions on how to use ChatGPT in academic homework

I am currently noticing that students are submitting essays where they have used ChatGPT to produce the text of their essay assignments. On some occasions, they have used it to correct the writing of ...
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Preparing for a doctorate program in math before applying

I graduated with a BS in math from Cal Poly SLO in 2015. My grades in upper level math were about B-. I feel like my understanding of the motivations for them was a little weak because my study habits ...
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Is it an FERPA violation to hold a contest with a scoreboard, if the result will be used as part of the grade?

I am thinking of holding some Codeforces-style programming contest (e.g. https://codeforces.com/contest/1811) with a scoreboard (visible only to students) as part of the curriculum. However, I wonder ...
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How to Approach the Teaching Presentation for a Tenure-track Interview in the U.S

As the title mentions, I am wondering how to approach an upcoming teaching presentation I will be giving as part of an interview. To be clear, this is a 30-40 minute teaching presentation on a topic ...
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Can I become a US community college teacher on a UK Master's Maths degree, if so how? [duplicate]

I'm a British Masters student studying maths at university in the UK (one of the best in the country for maths right now). My boyfriend lives in California, and I have been looking to move to ...
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What recourse do I have if the disability office grants unreasonable accommodations to a student?

I've talked to several colleagues who have expressed frustration at the amount of and kind of accommodations that some students receive. I know the Approved Position is "the disability office ...
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How to effectively take notes when the professor reads off their lecture notes or presents slides?

I am looking for some advice on how to take notes effectively when the professor reads off their lecture notes or presents slides with marginal explanations. My preferred format is to have textual ...
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Facilitating anonymous feedback with possibility of dialogue

I'd like to give students a platform to anonymously provide feedback on my course/teaching, but I'd like the platform to allow me to respond to individual students without revealing their identities. ...
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Is it possible to learn some basic mathematics using an app? [closed]

I am interested in developing an app for students that are starting a grade career involving mathematics. It is a real problem that they start with almost no knowgladge of basic mathematics and there ...
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