Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

I walked into my classroom and started with a question I didn’t know the answer to. The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. I still assign readings. I never position the question as rhetorical. Students asked sharper questions.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2025

I walked into my classroom and started with a question I didn’t know the answer to. The Paradox Effect That one question—unresolved, unanswerable, alive—did more to wake up my students than any HBR case ever had. I still assign readings. I never position the question as rhetorical. Students asked sharper questions.

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Syllabus Ethics Art Questions 85

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

Each assignment has 1-10 points, with a total of 100 points. In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester. What a good question. Students were still demotivated by a lack of clear expectations.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Maintain a steady stash of supplies Anyone who’s taught language arts (or any class, really) has heard “I forgot my pencil” more times than they can count. For students who are testing below grade level, incorporate the CCSS for language arts that are closer to their actual abilities.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

These are a great chance for your child to ask questions, get clarification, and interact with their teachers, just like in a physical classroom. Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. Support One-to-One Meetings: Some students are more comfortable asking questions in private rather than during group sessions.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Like most language arts/English teachers, I always wanted to share my love of reading with my students. So my question became, “How do I encourage my students to read in a way that lights a fire for them, so that they don’t see it as just another torturous reading assignment from their dumb teacher?”

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Reading English Grades Attention 75

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

Four Corners | Music Edition: Icebreaker, Body Break or Timekiller By PrimaryJuniorPassions Grades: 2nd-8th This musical four corners activity comes with 31 ready-to-go questions on Google Slides, plus blank slides you can customize to fit your class. Assign each note a number value and show students how to clap or snap the different notes.

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Activities Elementary School Elementary School Students 52

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Maybe they forget to turn in assignments, have trouble organizing their thoughts, or feel overwhelmed by fast-paced lessons. Every student maintains a daily agenda where teachers jot down assignments, reminders, and important updates. At AEF Schools, these students arent overlookedtheyre understood.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Engineer a balloon-powered art bot Projected Time : 15-20 minutes Concepts : Force, motion, and air pressure Materials: Plastic cup, markers, tape, balloon, straw, rubber band, paper, scissors Tape markers around the cup to make legs. Students can draw pictures of their grass growth and take measurements.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 15, 2025

Assign a specific type of race car construction project, such as rubber band cars, balloon cars, and bottle box cars, or allow students to use their own materials from home. Students master the art of hydraulics and/or pneumatics with a creative project that brings multiple engineering types together. But don’t eat it.)

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Middle School Middle School Schools Science 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school. Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. When is it okay to break up with a friend?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Decorate your classroom with Hispanic heritage arts and crafts Present students with notable Hispanic historical figures in creative, hands-on ways. Frida Kahlo Door Decor Set – Spanish by SraDavilaMadwid Subjects: Art History, Spanish Make Frida Kahlo and her work the focus of your classroom before you even open the door.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

You’ll also get three customizable covers perfect for group assignments, novel studies, and independent projects. Are classes like art, gym, and life skills as critical as math and English? Should schools limit the amount of homework they assign? Should teachers allow students to listen to music while working?

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 30, 2025

intriguing questions before the period even begins. 2 | EDITABLE By Lana’s Classroom Grades: 6th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Fifty riddles and accompanying solutions make it easy to incorporate daily riddles into your class period. Add a riddle as an extra credit question to a test or weekly quiz.

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High School High School Schools Math 52

Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 26, 2025

which is our culture's shorthand for "What to you spend your weekdays working at, which is ultimately the question, "How do you go about acquiring food, clothing, and shelter?" These are all concerns, I would assert, related to answering the question "What do you do?" We asked one another "What do you do?" What do you do?"

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Give high schoolers the chance to channel their growing maturity into reasoned, structured arguments fueled by their passionate opinions and perspectives through the art of debate! Keep students engaged with a collection of fun debate topics and “would you rather” questions for high school students that they’ll enjoy talking about.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Essential Question. Before starting, review the digital citizenship associated with visiting an online site (such as privacy, staying on the assigned website, and not talking to strangers). Draw a Stickman is a web-based tool or app that turns a simple drawing into a story by asking questions of the creator. Teacher Preparation.

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Grades Activities Art Writing 221

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

From math to language arts, from homeroom to electives, all of their classes took place online. Using live chats and video, they would engage with their teachers in real time, asking questions, participating in class discussions, and completing assignments from our home.

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High School High School Schools Art 315

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. When teachers provide students with the rubric at the start of any assignment or task that will be assessed, the rubric serves as a roadmap. How does using rubrics benefit students?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

These app essentials will help keep high school students engaged while learning language arts, and teach them how to form the arguments and enhance learning comprehension. The idea is the main component in argument forming, and actively learn teaches students how to communicate by asking and answering questions. Forming the Arguments.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired. Instead, coding is integrated to explore where it fits in “the broader idea of the liberal arts in the traditional Greek sense,” Anderson explains. In other words, coding isn’t just tacked on.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 213

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? I want the students to do something historical, obviously—depict an event or person, perhaps—but I understand that not everyone is equally creative in the arts.

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Assignments Grades History Ethics 195

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

Creative art experiences that challenge students to observe, articulate, reimagine, and take risks help build their confidence and leadership capacity, say experts. Art to SEEK for Intention. The SEEK™ acronym is a method that allows students to read and decode art. Art for Different POVs. Art for Communication Skills.

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Art Skills Students Coaching 221

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2015

Teachers can easily differentiate instruction assigning articles written at a range Lexile levels to different groups of students within a single class. Once teachers create an account and set up their classes, they can assign articles and collect student data. Students can add comments to the articles they’ve been assigned.

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Reading Assignments Art History 374

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are. she says. “We

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Assignments English Teachers Essay 198

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2020

Either assign students a particular slide (by writing their names at the bottom of each slide) or allow students to select the slide they want to work on. Teachers can strategically assign slides to subtly differentiate learning or give students a degree of agency by allowing them to choose their slides. What questions do they have?

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Students Math Writing Discussions 546

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. What questions or suggestions do they have? Teachers can create a simple Google Form to collect quick formative assessment data and create an avenue for students to ask questions or request help.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Assignments 546

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. I like to think of this shift as a transition from content-based to issues-based curriculum.

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 204

Catlin Tucker

JULY 25, 2016

The texts are paired with Think Questions and writing prompts that I can use or adapt. Instead of marching lockstep through information as a class, I will assign a video for homework and use class time for practice. StudySync has freed me from the limitations of our school book room.

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Online Learning Technology Blended Learning English 420

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

It begs the question, What is the value of racing through material if students don’t understand or retain it? 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 28, 2023

In my Art of Blended Learning Online Course this week, we continued our work on the playlist model. I began our synchronous session by addressing frequently asked questions about this model. In this post, I will share answers to some of those questions. Q1: How Long Should Students Work on a Playlist?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

— Explore some academic research behind the question: Why do people procrastinate? The Art Assignment. An engaging look at contemporary art, as well as art history through a contemporary lens. The best of them are shot on location and bring art from around the world into your classroom.

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Art Assignments Textbooks Science 274

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It has been estimated that college students across the globe devote in excess of a billion hours per year to “disposable” assignments (Wiley, 2016). Moving from essential to “renewable” assignments means that the students see the tasks as sufficiently meaningful to be kept and even passed on to others. What a waste!

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Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

As a Language Arts teacher, I’ve found that one of the skills my students need to improve is their basic research skills. I find this program to be helpful because I can assign a group of students via Google Classroom videos to watch and take notes on. Then, once I assign the content, I can see who watched the video.

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Skills Assignments Students Art 311

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For example, while studying engineering principles, teachers can incorporate art by challenging students to design aesthetically-pleasing yet functional structures, blending engineering and design thinking. Teachers can foster curiosity by setting up an “I Wonder” board where students post questions or topics they’d like to explore.

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Middle School Middle School STEM Interdisciplinary 328

Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

I point to each station’s location and review the assigned seating chart. Note: I don’t usually assign seats at the independent teacher-led station because that is where I will be.) Because students do not need to get out any materials when they transition, I set the transition timer to 20 seconds. What is your favorite movie?

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Coaching Blended Learning Assignments Middle School 339

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You can create quizzes for the books your students are reading and assign collections to your students. WIthin the lessons there is a wide variety of ideas presented from SEL lessons, to art lessons, to science lessons and so much more. Then it provides questions to check comprehension. This helps to differentiate instruction.

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Assignments 336