eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. I could not believe my eyes because this woman looked exactly like a fifth grader from my first teaching assignment. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 289

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

After assigning a “standard” written essay based on materials that we were reading in class, I would have students read their essays at the front of the class while I recorded them. Students were correcting their work as they read out loud, which translated to better writing the next assignment.

Essay 181

Essay Failure Writing Students 181

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The nation must act with urgency and purpose to ensure all students have access to high quality online learning opportunities,” they write. Ensuring that all students have high-speed internet access and functioning devices is a baseline requirement for virtual learning. The report also includes a foreword co-written by five former U.S.

Learning 218

Learning Internet Writing Failure 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Students earn points by completing a much wider variety of assignment and assessment pathways than what is typically seen in most higher education courses today. Students also have autonomy to choose what they want to do within that wide variety of assignments and assessments. We don’t want you to be a failure.

Failure 166

Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 166

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The case reveals insights about a question relevant to a marathon course or an academic course: How can the integrity of results be ensured when there is easy access to technology that can be used to cheat? In other words, regardless of students access to AI tools, cheating has been and continues to be endemic.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Unsurprisingly, concerns over the expected “COVID slide” began to take shape almost as quickly as the emergency response plans, with the learning loss projected to be especially dire for those students already at risk of failure. Redefining Student Attendance And showing up means being able to access and engage with learning material. “As

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Participation Communication Failure Hybrid Learning 216

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S.,

Education 309

Education Internet Interdisciplinary Testing 309

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. Branch is known for his logical, easy-to-grasp course design, for his engaging assignments like The Armchair Anthropologist, and for the way his classes seem to fly by—which doesn’t happen by accident. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment. Source: Course Hero.

Quizzes 167

Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

To support their professional growth, teachers will also have continued access to the AI Coach platform , which enables them to watch and reflect on videos of their classroom instruction, set professional goals, and receive personalized observation tips, coaching, and resources from a virtual, computerized AI coach.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

My hesitation was rooted in three main assumptions I made about my students: They lack the focus needed to complete self-directed assignments. Some are unmotivated to do an assignment without direct guidance. For most assignments, about 60 percent of students turn their work in.

Learning 161

Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

However, research from the last decade shows only 28 percent of community college students who take a developmental education course earn a degree within eight years, and many students assigned to developmental courses drop out before completing their sequence and enrolling in college-level courses.

Education 205

Education Failure Students Exams 205

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure. They also show improved assessment and high-stakes test scores.

Reading 168

Reading Failure Motivation Study 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Researchers at Columbia University went further to study the impact of weekly automated alerts to parents about their student’s missed assignments, grades and class absences. The alerts reduced course failures by 27 percent, increased class attendance by 12 percent and increased student retention.

Failure 174

Failure Communication Study Change Management 174

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Two new, large-scale studies—one from New York, the other from California—show that reduced reliance on placement exams increases student access to college-level courses. When it comes to determining which students are assigned to remedial courses, “traditionally faculty do have a strong say,” says Barnett, who co-authored the study.

Exams 174

Exams English Math Instructors 174

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. Learners in our programs who pay their own tuition are almost two times more likely to keep up with assignments in a course, compared to those whose seats are underwritten by a philanthropic funder. In many MOOCs, students feel like their assignments end up being submitted into a void.

Assignments 167

Assignments Teaching Assistants Motivation Failure 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Many educators are wondering about whether grading policies should be relaxed because of how stressed everyone is, and with so many students facing tough life circumstances of tech access. Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning.

Failure 149

Failure Feedback Students Exams 149

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The lack of access to high-quality math instruction can impact students’ confidence and ability to learn math concepts and perpetuate deficit mindset thinking , especially within the Black community. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow.

Math 214

Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Instructional technology may take the form of software that can be used to complete homework assignments, or serve as a primary content-delivery and assessment system in fully online or blended online classes. One common form of student support technology provides round-the-clock remote access to academic tutors. Online videos (e.g.

Technology 155

Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 155

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Once they sign up for courses, an assigned mentor is supposed to check in on them regularly—sometimes even weekly—through a call or text or video meeting. In practice, that meant each Monday, text messages were sent reminding students about assignments due that week, along with estimates for how much time each task would likely take.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 201

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Indeed, hundreds of millions of students, educators, and researchers in more than 200 countries and territories have access to education technologies and online curricula running on AWS. The cloud can serve as a force multiplier in achieving this goal, putting additional tools to enhance student learning directly into the hands of educators.

Education 167

Education Intelligence Failure Testing 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

That will continue the cycle of failure. For those of us tasked with overcoming massive learning gaps and bringing success to at-risk students who have known nothing else but failure, this type of compromise might be the only way to do it. Every student in my class had taken and failed the graduation writing test.

Failure 111

Failure Learning Testing Assignments 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

I do not understand how to do assignments.” As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? I solved everyone’s problems.

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here’s how to create a widget Access the Gallery (use this link ) and search the available widgets; select one like these related to the holiday (you may have to query ‘holiday’) or another of your choice. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist.

Activities 172

Activities Learning Art Attention 172

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

My students don’t always work so collaboratively—they are ninth graders, after all, and are accustomed to working on individual assignments for the benefit of their own grades. They weren’t completing an assignment for a grade, but building something for real people. But something about this project pulled them together.

Feedback 167

Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Access the Gallery (use this link ) and search the available widgets; select one that provides a holiday countdown clock. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. There are many.

Activities 174

Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

to, “I can tell you worked hard on that assignment!” Brainworks has a detailed introductory unit that is easily adaptable to your classroom of learners; grades three through eight, you can access it here. Acknowledging that failure came before success serves as a reminder for students that we all have the potential to be become better.

Science 113

Science Failure Teachers History 113

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Asynchronous online learning is gaining popularity with students from all walks of life to access academic programs from the comfort of their own homes. Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Most of us do not have access to large chunks of time to devote to tasks, so the work of grading builds up and bleeds into personal time, such as late nights and weekends. Many of our courses have 48 students enrolled, and writing is assigned in all classes. We do not use any machine grading.

Grades 115

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 115

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Most of us do not have access to large chunks of time to devote to tasks, so the work of grading builds up and bleeds into personal time, such as late nights and weekends. Many of our courses have 48 students enrolled, and writing is assigned in all classes. We do not use any machine grading.

Grades 111

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

I do not understand how to do assignments.” As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? I solved everyone’s problems.

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

I was fortunate because a large majority of the students showed a genuine interest in this assignment. The negativity that is readily accessible on social media can lead to negative self-talk. Failure is an inevitable part of life, but it is through our setbacks that we find opportunities for growth and success. years of age.

Collaborative Research 97

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 97

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

But even before that, students had a habit of avoiding purchasing textbooks, not because they had access to free materials, but because they couldn’t afford the books and were attempting—unsuccessfully—to complete their coursework without them. There are some faculty that may choose to never go this route,” she says.

Textbooks 102

Textbooks Failure Instructors Learning 102

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

Asynchronous online learning is gaining popularity with students from all walks of life to access academic programs from the comfort of their own homes. Similar to traditional classroom-based courses, one challenge students in an asynchronous online program face is fully understanding and meeting the requirements of assignments.

Student Engagement 92

Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 92

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. If students want to know how well they did in an assignment, they must read my feedback. Instead, I provide rich feedback. Why or why not?

Grades 90

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 90

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Students are grouped by academic need so teachers can review topics with struggling students while the rest of the class works at their own pace, often on a playlist of exercises assigned by Canvas (grades 6-12) or Google Classroom (K-5). Research shows that for low-income students, this can be the difference between success and failure.

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 147