Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 21, 2025

Use these easy and effective ELA activities for middle school to keep students engaged and teach them valuable skills. These short ELA activities for middle school get students thinking and writing quickly. 4 Refreshing ELA Activities for Middle School Reading How do you balance classroom fun with ELA CCSS ?

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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. These modules are ideal for students who are accustomed to fast-paced digital environments and may have limited attention spans. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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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. These modules are ideal for students who are accustomed to fast-paced digital environments and may have limited attention spans. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. Building on this tradition, the activity we will share here not only incorporates music but also integrates artificial intelligence, adding a new layer of engagement and critical thinking.

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Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

When the Grading Stack Becomes Too Much As the classroom quiets and the last student heads out the door, you finally take a breathonly to be met with the overwhelming sight of papers piled high, waiting for your attention. Math Fluency Practice Without the Grading Drain You assign a daily math warm-up with 50 addition facts.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Maybe they forget to turn in assignments, have trouble organizing their thoughts, or feel overwhelmed by fast-paced lessons. Small class sizes ensure that every student receives the individual attention they need. Supervised group projects, clubs, and school-wide activities further reinforce these skills in real-world settings.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Build up foundational knowledge Many students enter high school with gaps in their instruction, making many lessons and activities feel impossibly difficult. Conduct a casual formative assessment during a class discussion or group activity, and regularly check in with students who need more support.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 12, 2025

When they know they’ll need to summarize aloud or share with a group, they read more attentively and more purposefully. When done well, students may shift from passive readers to active thinkers. Group students together and assign each student a role. It’s fairly simple. First, you choose a text.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

But with the advent of technology, the internet, and cell phones, it seemed like reading for pleasure (not to mention the requisite attention span) had gone the way of buggy whips, writing quills, and powdered wigs. Perhaps the most unconventional part of the process is that the silent reading activity is not attached to a grade.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Assigned seats in a grid pattern aren’t your only option for an engaging classroom setup anymore! With books, rules posters, cards, activities, a contract, and an editable parent letter, you can feel confident with your seating options. Cons: These larger groupings take up more space, so they can make small classrooms feel cramped.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Give them a safe and structured place to let their arguments fly when you assign these persuasive writing prompts. 10 Informative 8th Grade Writing Prompts When you assign informative writing prompts to your 8th grade class, you’re letting them be the instructors! What environmental issue should we pay the most attention to?

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

The development of motor plans through practiced movement and adjustment is obviously intertwined with cognitive functions like attention, perception, and decision-making. Our minds have therefore evolved for an active engagement with the world around us, hence "minds on the hoof."

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Primary Punch

JANUARY 2, 2021

We usually play with just one and assign columns to each of the kids. Games encourage spontaneous requesting, taking turns, joint attention, following directions, and a range of pragmatics skills. With this activity we target giving effective directions, using prepositional words, describing actions, and telling a narrative.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

To extend the activity, have them share their thoughts with classmates. 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school. In your opinion, what sport gets too much attention? What sport should get more attention?

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Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

For students, this means larger class sizes, less individualized attention and support, and a lower quality of education overall. High workloads, inadequate resources, and lack of personalized attention can also negatively impact education quality. Why Is There a Teacher Shortage?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Not only has the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) and chatbots created concern about assigning writing, but myriad challenges exist when we send writing home with students. #1 As a result, writing assignments often fail to meet the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness required for motivation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2018

So how can you best think about teaching these critical skills to your students with learning and attention issues? I would start by considering common characteristics of kids with learning and attention issues, and think about which of these characteristics could present challenges when teaching digital citizenship.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2020

As I support teachers struggling to navigate the demands of the concurrent classroom, I find myself continually returning to the station rotation model as a strategy to design and facilitate learning for this challenging teaching assignment. There is an inequality of teacher attention.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

However, encouraging students to read in and out of class is challenging as small screens command much of their time and attention. Booklist Assignment. The Booklist Assignment is designed to help students select a book they’ll enjoy. Reading and Response Assignment.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As I’ve said in previous blog posts, teaching in a concurrent classroom is the most challenging teaching assignment I can imagine. I encourage teachers to use a welcome task consistently and vary the types of activities they ask students to complete.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 29, 2015

Students watch videos at home where they can control the pace of their learning, then they come to class prepared to apply that information in collaborative student-centered activities. These open-ended questions are a great way to begin discussions in class the day after students have completed this assignment.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. Then, class time is dedicated to practice and application, which has traditionally been assigned as homework for students to complete independently.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?” Some teachers do not assign homework. Despite these potential pitfalls, flipped instruction retains its value even when videos are not assigned for homework.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

A playlist is a sequence of learning activities designed to move students toward a desired result. Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2018

If students are going to develop as learners, then they need to track their progress, reflect on their specific skills, and identify areas that need more time, attention, and improvement. Ultimately, I want students to take an active role not only in their learning but also in the assessment of their progress as a learner.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A teacher’s cognitive engagement is the degree of attention to and investment in their work (Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). What aspects of the assignment would benefit from further development? This workflow positions the learner as the active agent in the experience. What questions did they answer incorrectly?

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2023

Set aside dedicated study time, designate a quiet space, and make a visual schedule for completing assignments. Seeing their growth and knowing what is coming may keep your child’s attention and enthusiasm high. Making homework time more fun for your child might be as simple as including some of their favorite activities.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Yet, many teachers find it challenging to connect with learners as they navigate the demands of teaching online, on a hybrid schedule, or in the concurrent classroom where their attention is divided between in-class and online students. Then each column after should represent a learning activity or task from the playlist.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

According to Merriam-Webster, engagement is defined as the act of engaging, which is to draw favorable attention or interest. For our purposes, we are going to say that student engagement is the ability for a teacher to draw the attention or interest of students for the sake of learning. So how do you do that?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

By understanding the role of AI in information dissemination, students can be more proactive in their media consumption, actively seeking substantiated news rather than relying solely on algorithmic suggestions. They offer avenues for sharing ideas, discovering new content, and collaborating with peers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. classes This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. I’ve been there often.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Teachers find AI tools that grade assignments, create lesson plans, and offer personalized student support. This frees up teachers to plan better lessons and spend quality time with students who need one-on-one attention. This combination of technology and personal attention helps students stay engaged with their learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Incorporate hands-on activities and experiments Hands-on activities let students engage directly with STEM concepts, making learning tangible and memorable. For math, measurement and geometry activities like building models or plotting data can turn abstract numbers into something students can visualize and manipulate.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Observations with a Checklist: Simply observing our students at work can provide valuable insights into their behaviors, interactions, and level of understanding during classroom activities. Completing hands-on tasks or projects to evaluate their skills, collaboration, and attention to task requirements.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Active learning Lectures and memorization are taking a back seat to active learning. Tablets and interactive smartboards also encourage active learning through games, competitions, and role playing. To be successful, active learning depends heavily on the student’s participation.

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