Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. These practical techniques will develop critical thinking and problem-solving abilities by creating intentional opportunities to enhance social and communication skills.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Today, the flipped classroom is no longer just about moving lectures online but about curating immersive, personalized learning environments.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Being mindful of some students sensitivity to what they perceive as inadequate skills, the strategies listed below were shared in class. They may also feel underprepared for reading focused non-fiction, informational texts that require more attention than a casual fiction novel.

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Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

When students can see their mistakes, fix them, and understand why something is incorrect, they’re actively learning. Heres the thing: the goal of practice is learning, not performance. They’re engaged in metacognition. They’re becoming independent thinkers. Thats something a red pen alone cant always do.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

This foundational knowledge includes study skills. No matter what subject you teach, spend time showing students how to take notes, how to study for tests and quizzes, and how to balance their time between homework and other after-school activities. Have all students set skill-based goals at the beginning of the year.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

With the proper support and a few simple strategies, online education can be just as engaging as traditional classroom learning. Below are practical tools and techniques to help your child stay motivated, involved, and excited to learn—even through a screen. That’s true in traditional classrooms and also true in online settings.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

With her influence, I learned to energize a room and help students believe in themselves through positivity and encouragement. They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. are just as important as clinical skills.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

With her influence, I learned to energize a room and help students believe in themselves through positivity and encouragement. They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. are just as important as clinical skills.

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Organized Classroom

MAY 22, 2025

The teacher was sitting at a table with several students working on a comprehension skill of some sort that involved several different colors of post-its. To me, learning centers and learning stations can be used interchangeably. Where do you get ideas for classroom centers activities?

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Jodi Durgin

MAY 30, 2025

Students don’t realize they are practicing writing skills during this learning experience. The autograph book becomes a lasting keepsake that students will treasure for years to come as they look back at special memories and friendships.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 9, 2020

This fall, students will likely be learning, at least in part, online. Given that reality, I wanted to share a collection of strategies designed to engage students in active learning online. Sort It Out. This is a digital spin on a traditional concept mapping exercise.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2021

Identified by EDUCAUSE as a top strategic technology , active learning classrooms (ALCs) go beyond just outfitting learning spaces with technology. These engaging, dynamic spaces provide new pedagogical opportunities, support active learning, and help students develop relevant skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

Districts and schools are increasingly adopting active learning practices in order to address businesses’ demand for employees capable of creative and collaborative work. However, research shows that the physical space that supports active learning is quite different from one designed for lecture-focused teaching.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Engage students actively for deeper learning and enhanced academic outcomes Enhance learning through active participation, collaboration, and critical thinking skills Stay up to date on the latest in classroom learning trends Active learning strategies engage students in the learning process, fostering deeper understanding and retention.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Achieve3000 , a provider of online reading and literacy tools, announced it has acquired Seattle-based Actively Learn , which also provides a suite of online reading materials and instructional supports aimed at helping students build literacy and critical-thinking skills. And the U.S. market makes up 95 percent of its users.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

When we examine what are active learning teaching strategies, these strategies empower educators to create interactive classrooms where students actively participate, collaborate, and apply knowledge to real-world situations. What are active learning teaching strategies? What are three active learning strategies?

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

For generations, most high schools have been designed with a cookie-cutter approach “that can be reproduced easily,” said Ashley Smith, who works with the architectural firm Smith Design Group. But that’s certainly not true of the new THINC College & Career Academy in LaGrange, Ga., which Smith helped design.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2019

Although a wealth of research suggests that active learning increases student engagement and improves academic outcomes, many college campuses struggle to get faculty to shift away from traditional, sage-on-a-stage style teaching practices. One of IU’s early redesign efforts saw it transform an old indoor swimming pool.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2023

One of the first calls for professors to actively involve their students in learning as a means of achieving higher order skills came from Benjamin Bloom and his widely used Bloom’s Taxonomy (Bloom, 1956).

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Active Learning Activities Learning Students 138

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Active learning with technology involves the use of edtech tools and digital resources to discover, analyze, and apply learning. Passive learning doesn’t help students develop future-ready skills, like critical thinking or creativity, in the same way active learning does.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

To help educators make the most of new teaching strategies and tools, MiEN Company has published “ A Guide to Creating Dynamic Active Learning Spaces.”. The guide describes the many advantages of flexible and mobile learning spaces. A Guide to Creating Dynamic Active Learning Spaces” is available at [link].

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Of course the benefits of active learning are apparent beyond the kindergarten sector. They also tend to report greater collaboration skills, greater feelings of belongingness, higher levels of academic engagement, greater motivation to learn, and higher levels of self-efficacy.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2020

This presents myriad opportunities to engage students in active learning online. Self-assessment is an important strategy that encourages students to think critically about their skills. Online discussion is a critical part of online learning, and as such, students need to develop the skills necessary to engage in this space.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

It’s a key area of teaching worldwide and thousands of schools are now investing in learning spaces specifically designed to support STEM–called STEM labs. A STEM lab is a learning environment where students, irrespective of grade, can come together and actively participate in hands-on or practical STEM learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are three active learning strategies? Active learning strategies for students in K-12 encompass a range of techniques designed to promote engagement, critical thinking, and deeper understanding. Think-Pair-Share promotes deeper exploration of concepts and enhances communication skills.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2023

One of the first calls for professors to actively involve their students in learning as a means of achieving higher order skills came from Benjamin Bloom and his widely used Bloom’s Taxonomy (Bloom, 1956).

Active Learning 98

Active Learning Activities Learning Students 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

How can I best support students with very poor writing skills when the class is not one specifically focused on writing? We professors sometimes misjudge the skill level students will start from on the first day of class on a variety of fronts. The engine of learning is labor." He stated that “The engine of learning is labor.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2024

Key points: Critical thinking should not be separate from and on top of what teachers are doing in the classroom How to help students build critical success skills 3 lessons on perseverance from Stoffel the honey badger For more news on durable skills, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Achievement discrepancies among U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2023

Instead of blocking ChatGPT and tools like it, consider incorporating them into classrooms through an inquiry-based learning framework. Inquiry-based learning focuses on developing critical thinking skills, problem-solving abilities, and creativity.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

They are designed to combine educational technology with specific teaching protocols that promote active learning, student engagement, and collaboration in the classroom. These protocols are structured activities with clear guidelines and time limits to keep lessons focused and maximize their impact.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2021

Support active learning : Using the hands and body to interact with 3D objects and environments stimulates natural learning pathways, allowing students to intuitively explore and absorb knowledge. The technologies empower students to do things that would otherwise be too expensive or dangerous to do in person.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

These parallel yet distinct teaching environments demand intentional strategies that can adapt while maintaining their power to actively engage students in the learning process. Instead, we need to reimagine active learning for both spaces, maintaining the core principles while adapting the execution.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS, July 26, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Minneapolis, Minnesota Pivot Interactives, a phenomena-based, active learning tool for science teaching, has been honored with three Educators Pick Best of STEM awards, an EdTech program judged solely by science and STEM educators. About Pivot Interactives Pivot Interactives, Inc.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

In July 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SXSW EDU issued a challenge to the edtech world: Design an Alexa skill to transform education. Their solutions for the Amazon Alexa EdTech Skills Challenge focused on improving the home to school connection, teacher and administrator productivity, accessibility and student learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Key points: Critical thinking should not be separate from and on top of what teachers are doing in the classroom How to help students build critical success skills 3 lessons on perseverance from Stoffel the honey badger For more news on durable skills, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Achievement discrepancies among U.S.

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