Teach Hub

APRIL 30, 2025

But lets be honest, coming up with fresh and creative ways to hold their attention isnt always easy. Simply stepping outside can make a noticeable difference in your students attention and energy levels. After the activity, students can regroup in the classroom to share their findings and reflect on the experience.

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Activities Teaching Learning Attention 78

eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2025

Overall, most districts seemed to take a cautious approach, focusing first on teacher use before turning attention to how students will or will not be permitted to use AI in the classroom. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom? Most district leaders also wanted to empower teachers as they explored genAI use.

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Teachers Coaching Attention Activities 290

eSchool News

MAY 19, 2025

In educational settings–especially in physical education, where noise from activity and movement can overwhelm instruction–amplifying a teachers voice by 5 to 15 decibels above ambient noise helps capture students’ attention by minimizing competing sounds and movements. The benefits extend beyond students.

Physical Education 204

Physical Education Education Communication Motivation 204

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

That’s when it hit medespite years of teaching experience, I’m still searching for ways to spark the same level of engagement whether I’m interacting with students face-to-face or through carefully designed asynchronous activities. For my online students, I’ve adapted this activity using collaborative digital tools.

Active Learning 62

Active Learning Activities Learning Minute Papers 62

eSchool News

MAY 21, 2025

A standard security awareness training recommendation to prevent successful phishing scams has been to pay close attention to the source email and double-check that any hyperlink came from a trusted source.

Schools 207

Schools Textbooks Internet Motivation 207

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Teachers who have traditionally planned a whole group lesson that moves the class, as a unit, through a series of learning activities find it nearly impossible to hold their students’ attention in the concurrent classroom. Finally, I would encourage teachers to end their lessons with an exit ticket activity.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Assignments 546

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

The class may include students with a hearing impairment, auditory processing disorder, or attention deficit disorder. After engaging with information in a format that feels accessible, students can transition to an activity of their choice designed to help them make meaning. How can you proactively remove those barriers?

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Disabilities 545

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

One might assume that the most desirable skills for someone entering a STEM field would be things like vast scientific knowledge or a laser-like attention to detail. Ive used it for activities like labeling parts of a lightbulb, where students can draw, type, and share without the pressure of presenting.

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STEM Students Feedback Knowledge 219

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

I feel like I can give more attention to my students and projects using AI rather than spending my whole afternoon or weekends working on the planning. CPS uses NotebookLM for clear communication and understanding around the district’s guidance and policies, ensuring they’re following district mandates.

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Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 193

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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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

This approach respects the natural constraints of attention and working memory. A recent Harvard study found that AI tutors can double learning gains compared to traditional active learning classrooms, while also increasing engagement and reducing time to competency [5].

Education 167

Education Learning Knowledge Feedback 167

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

As students rotate to this station, they receive focused attention and resources that address their unique learning challenges or advanced needs, ensuring that each student is supported where they are in their learning journey. Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels.

Teaching 395

Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 395

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. This was when I realized a choice board format could provide students with the agency to choose an activity that would work for them.

Culture 499

Culture Reading Assignments Blended Learning 499

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Designed to work alongside innovative product enhancements announced earlier this year , these new resources empower teachers to create personalized learning experiences with inquiry, excitement, and exploration that will hold students attention while challenging them academically.

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Laboratory Social Studies Education Middle School 187

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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Student Engagement Teachers Students Attention 304

eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2020

I’ve found that in addition to integrating STEM into language arts activities, using technology is a great way to generate deeper language arts engagement. Here are five ways you can use technology to capture and hold the attention of language arts students. Use Monster Quiz for assessments.

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Art Language Languages STEM 361

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This cloud reflects the actions or physical manifestations of engagement, such as learning, interest, participation, focus, attention, and curiosity. The largest words were repeated by the highest number of people. However, to truly understand teacher engagement we must understand the dimensions of this motivational construct.

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Blended Learning Teachers Coaching Learning 533

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

Teachers can pop in and out of breakout rooms while students discuss academic topics and collaborate around shared tasks, but it isn’t the same as walking around a classroom with watchful eyes and attentive ears. The Whole Group Rotation The entire class rotates between online and offline learning activities as a unit.

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Learning Knowledge Writing Discussions 543

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

Check out STEM activities for middle school that are sure to catch teenagers attention and inspire them to learn more. Construct a thermal insulator device Concepts to Cover in Middle School STEM Prepare for the future with STEM activities for middle school 1. Build historical machines in interdisciplinary projects 7.

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Middle School Middle School STEM Activities 52

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

And the tragedy and isolation that has accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic means that teachers need to focus their attention on relationship-building and teaching SEL above all. A move to remote learning requires teachers to reimagine their pedagogy. Related content: 8 great resources for classroom SEL.

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Teaching Attention Skills Activities 363

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Teachers are constantly battling for students attention, often losing that battle to smart phones. This is because brain-based strategies allow students to analyze, synthesize, and apply information actively during lessons, increasing the transfer of that knowledge to long-term memory. Lets examine a few examples from the research.

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Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

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). This workflow positions the learner as the active agent in the experience. What causes teachers to invest their mental energy and time resources in a task?

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Blended Learning Teachers Learning Grades 535

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Now we must turn our attention to how we return children to school and how we focus on students’ learning. Think of fun online activities that show high student interest like Kahoot! We were all immersed in the moment, navigating our way through a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. Here’s how: 1. Remember how important icebreakers are?

Social Studies 348

Social Studies Learning Students Attention 348

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.

Blended Learning 420

Blended Learning Learning Coaching Discussions 420

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.

Students 420

Students Grades Achievement Evaluation 420

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

This method, however, may inadvertently create myriad barriers for students with hearing impairments, memory challenges, attention deficit disorders, insufficient background knowledge, or who lack familiarity with subject-specific or academic vocabulary. Teachers must strive to make the experience engaging and interactive.

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Lecturing Knowledge Assignments Writing 433

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

A playlist is a sequence of learning activities designed to move students toward a desired result. Any of these learning activities or tasks above would benefit from students controlling the pace of their progress and could potentially benefit from the playlist model.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 481

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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Learning Styles Participation Hybrid Learning Attention 325

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2022

students struggled with anxiety, depression, trauma, or attention issues that made it difficult to focus, stay motivated, and learn. Even before the pandemic, a third of U.S. That number has grown exponentially during the pandemic and recovery: now half of students feel persistently sad or hopeless. That number is certainly higher today.

Motivation 354

Motivation Schools Students Coaching 354

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Blended learning is the thoughtful design and facilitation of learning experiences that strive to shift control from teacher to learner by weaving together active, engaged learning online and offline. There a several types of activities that lend themselves to learners controlling the pace of their experience.

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Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Motivation 544

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

As teachers use the range of blended learning models to combine active, engaged learning online and offline, they are freed from feeling pressure to spend large chunks of a lesson at the front of the room controlling the experience. Over time, the lack of autonomy and agency also negatively impacts a learner’s motivation.

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Blended Learning Learning Lecturing Motivation 518

Teach Hub

APRIL 24, 2025

It feels like youre constantly in pursuit of your students attention, trying every trick in the book. But heres the thing – there are ways to redirect your students attention without losing your voice or your mind. This unexpected sound can work wonders in snapping everyone back to attention. Its frustrating.

Attention 72

Attention Testing Participation Activities 72

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

It’s not just a test of one’s ability to put thoughts into words; it requires substantial time investment, focused attention, memory, critical thinking skills, and the physical mechanics of handwriting or typing. When you pre-order a copy of ????? ??????? ???? ??? ?????????

Assignments 457

Assignments Writing Feedback Motivation 457

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.

Skills 306

Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 306

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.

Feedback 431

Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 431

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.

Middle School 325

Middle School Middle School STEM Interdisciplinary 325

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Small class sizes ensure that every student receives the individual attention they need. Multi-sensory learning techniques, such as hands-on activities, visual aids, and interactive discussions, further enhance understanding and retention. Communication is at the heart of this partnership.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 144