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Academic culture
Active learning
Adult learners
Attention span
Balance in teaching and research
Bored students
Broader impacts in research proposals
Class preparation
Classroom assessment & classroom assessment techniques (CATs)
Cooperative learning
Course design, planning, & revising
Data & student feedback
Departmental culture
Departmental expectations
Discussion & small group discussion
Disruptive student behavior
Effective teaching
Efficiency, teaching
Engagement, student
Evaluation, teaching
Experienced teachers
Goals and objectives
Grading
Graduate students
Grant proposals & proposal writing
Group work
Higher-order thinking
In-class problem solving
Instructional consultant
Interactive learning & interactive teaching methods
International faculty & teaching assistants
Large classrooms
Learning objectives
Low exam scores
Math or science preparation
Mentoring
Motivating students
Networking
New faculty member
Novice teachers
Responsibility for learning
Small group instructional diagnosis (SGID)
Student needs
Student resistance to interactive teaching
Student-assisted teaching
Students' prior knowledge
Teaching assistants (TAs)
Teaching techniques
Team work
Tenure & promotion
Think-pair-share
Time management
US funding agencies
US student culture
Workshops, teaching