Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

All students in a class should complete the same assignments. Failure to identify and name the mental models driving our actions and decisions will undermine any effort to make long-term change in a system. What learning activities successfully engaged learners? Learning happens in classrooms.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

Metal detectors, panic alarms, and active school shooter drills are often what come to mind when the education community first thinks of school safety. When we consider the studies showing the relationship between bullying, personal failure, and anger to school violence, we must pause and reflect on our own schools and classrooms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

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. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. You can also share it to most social media. Team Challenge Time required: 1.5

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In college, assignments were purposeful, designed to deepen my understanding of the material rather than simply reinforce rote memorization. These assignments provided valuable opportunities to fail, seek help, and ultimately grow from the experience. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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Failure Assignments Education Secondary Education 177

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Some college courses simply provide a curved score for students to lower the failure rate or to stratify student performance. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?

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Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 265

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

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. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Combining PBL with makerspaces (also called maker education) gives educators an infinite number of projects, assignments, and activities that engage students and truly immerse them in learning. If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. The best part?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

And while listening and reading aren’t that difficult to conquer (both are passive skills about consuming the language, so they are easier for students to handle), active skills like speaking and writing are another thing: Why is writing so critical for students to master?

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Writing Skills Essay Languages 281

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

psychology, English/communication, etc) it may even be possible to embed these practices into assignments so that students have these skills before encountering a setback. Promoting Positive Student Outcomes: The Use of Reflection and Planning Activities with a Growth-Mindset Focus and SMART Goals. In many classes (e.g., link] Poe, L.

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

psychology, English/communication, etc) it may even be possible to embed these practices into assignments so that students have these skills before encountering a setback. Promoting Positive Student Outcomes: The Use of Reflection and Planning Activities with a Growth-Mindset Focus and SMART Goals. In many classes (e.g., link] Poe, L.

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

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.

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Essay Failure Students Writing 200

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. The points for each activity are capped within the system.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study — which involved 811 undergraduate students at Florida International University, a large public university in Miami — is perhaps the biggest randomized study of active learning methods in calculus, says Laird Kramer, a physicist at the university and one of the study’s authors. Its conclusion?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. Another surprise, Hattie said, was that the more active learning done in a flipped classroom, the worse the outcome.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5

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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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

One of the things that is apparent as you start to read about the lecture-versus-active learning debates is that everyone is defining those terms in very different ways. For some, it would be talking from minute one till the end of class, but for others it would be mostly talking, some activity, some other kind of mix.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

The kids’ teachers did a good job of telling us what assignments or activities were most important, from their perspective. I eventually got to the point where I would prioritize those activities over others. I modified the final assignment to be a manifesto.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Glindas complicity came to mind, not through active harm but quiet omissions that allowed unjust systems to persist. Departmental and school-wide conversations werent about how to inspire students or make learning meaningful, they were about tracking data and avoiding the label of failure. Its messy, uncomfortable and full of missteps.

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Failure Students Questions Teaching 178

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., The takeaway?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

One of the activities that this former teacher would do was have the students write a blog and reflect every day. I want my students to be able to have differentiated assignments and to be able to find the one that is most interesting. Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best.

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Failure Motivation Writing Culture 160

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns. The most time consuming or emotionally taxing items can be processed via prompts.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 119

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. There is a growing need to report on student activity more holistically.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 23, 2024

It’s a fun and engaging activity for students. If it’s a hybrid class, this might be a jumping-off point for a conversation in the face-to-face classroom after they’ve done this engagement activity outside in the community. Then they assign the challenge to personal contacts, neighbors, coworkers, or classmates.

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Laboratory Failure Assignments Instructors 101

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

However, in conversations with faculty, many discuss that although they take the time to write or discuss explicit feedback with their students, the students may not read it or if they do read it, they don’t apply the feedback given to future course assignments which can lead to frustration from faculty leading to a ‘what’s the point then?’

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Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 119

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.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In the first part of my class, I’ll have them engage in activities where we’ll do a shared Google Doc so I can actually see their engagement and the thoughts that they’re having as they write words or add things to diagrams. So there should be failure in all of our classes. And so the laughter just isn’t always there.

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. This goes well beyond Khan Academy’s online video training, into fantasy worlds of trolls and wizards, the type of activities most parents have tried to keep their kids away from. Con–which became a Pro.

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Math Failure Gamification Knowledge 150

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2023

As Anjelica aptly points out, students should be actively involved because they are the ones for whom education is designed. Furthermore, Citlalli emphasizes that student involvement allows them to actively participate in shaping the very things they learn, gaining a deeper understanding of the process and overcoming limitations.

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Education Students Writing Social Studies 167

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.

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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.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Some essential study habits include: Time management: Allocate specific time slots for studying and create a schedule that accommodates coursework, assignments, and personal commitments.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Some essential study habits include: Time management: Allocate specific time slots for studying and create a schedule that accommodates coursework, assignments, and personal commitments.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 96

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

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. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 72

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

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. For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Online/Offline Thanksgiving activities. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5

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