eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Also, only some teachers have the time or money to invest in building courses with the functionality, attention to the user experience, and variety of hints and examples that a third-party software vendor can afford. Finally, if a teacher isnt an engaging presenter, the lecture is likely even worse on video than in person.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 237

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JANUARY 17, 2024

This provider will complete your essays with ease, allowing you to allocate some time to mindfulness practices. Mindful Coloring or Art Engaging in mindful coloring or art projects allows students to express themselves creatively while staying present at the moment. Benefits of Mindfulness Practices 1.

Schools 166

Schools Instructors Coaching Essay 166

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Here are seven I use during the pre-holiday season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. I’ve been there often.

Activities 174

Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He passed away the other day, and you can read an essay looking back at his life and work that we published at EdSurge. There are a lot of colleges—liberal arts colleges and smaller colleges—that have always had that focus. That’s the place where we think that higher education will be susceptible to that disruption narrative.

Education 207

Education History Art Essay 207

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

A dozen or so students are gathered virtually in a Zoom room, inhaling and exhaling and summoning their attention for a brisk lunchtime lesson filled with music and poetry. Year by year, these adults have gathered threads of wisdom, which the university now invites them to weave into the great tapestry of the liberal arts.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 178

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2017

He explains that writing an essay or report is a complex process that combines language production, memory retrieval and thinking ability. The act of handwriting does force an attention to the [writing] process,” says Dillon. Louis, insists that’s not the end of the story.

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Writing Essay Learning English 149

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

“Teachers dedicate a huge amount of time and energy to helping students learn and love reading, but it’s tough to give each student one-on-one attention in a busy classroom,” said Ray Lyons, eSpark’s VP of Product. “Our app changes this, offering deeply personalized advice at a highly affordable price.”

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Some of her students had never finished an essay, let alone crafted sparkling prose. Their essays turned out well,” she says. “I Sometimes DiMichele will have her students focus on a single part of an essay. “As And the student who complained most clearly, griping and groaning—I just didn’t pay attention to him.

Essay 99

Essay Feedback Writing English 99

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

With SEL, students not only experience less anxiety, less hyperactivity, and less aggression, they’re generally happier and more attentive, too. Next, Jake heads to media art class for 50 minutes of visual design study. Social and emotional learning is most productive when all teachers are invested in the program. Lucky, Jake.

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Teachers Exams Schools Students 165

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DECEMBER 14, 2016

Students can work together or alone to create a video in addition an essay to describe a historic event or summarize a book with a video. Understanding how well students pay attention to a video, what they retain from it, and how much they have learned from a video will help teachers cater their material and lesson plans.

eLearning 130

eLearning Teaching Lecturing Learning Styles 130

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Here are seven I use during the pre-holiday season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. I’ve been there often.

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative). It will also flag situations that warrant closer attention, such as instances where a draft receives starkly contrasting feedback from different students.

Writing 113

Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 113

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Davidson: In 1869, a major attention-grabbing article appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. Well, that essay was called The New Education and it was so important that Harvard hired this young man—he was only 34. Is that something that could be risky for someone who's trying to preserve a liberal-arts education?

Education 140

Education Intelligence History Essay 140

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Here are seven I use during the pre-Thanksgiving season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. I’ve been there often.

Activities 76

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 76

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Here are seven I use during the pre-Thanksgiving season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. I’ve been there often.

Activities 76

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 76

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

During whole-group instruction, we worked on essay organization, a domain where students scored low across the board. Informally, I paid attention to test-taking behaviors. Another student tested at a college level in reading, but had failed almost all of her language arts classes before she got to McClarin.

Failure 111

Failure Learning Testing Assignments 111

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Surprise and novelty, too, activate attention centers in the brain, helping information stick. Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. But creativity doesnt have to be limited to art class. Even short physical activities can reset attention spans. ” Students laughed, but the analogy stuck.

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Teacher Mood

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Here’s the scoop: instead of saying “an ADHD student,” try “a student with an attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder.” Some kids ace math but stumble over essays, while others shine in art or music. Navigating Labels with Care Ever wonder about the impact of labeling students? ” Why?

Intelligence 52

Intelligence Learning Styles Essay Participation 52

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

And once she had the attention of the conference goers, she used the opportunity to announce the crowdfunding campaign for Wayfinding Academy. Another student offered that she co-hosted two art shows this semester, and one said she signed up for a new lab class. Yeah you did,” replied the guide, who is also one of the professors.

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Grades Discussions Assignments Curriculum 120

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Because I think unconditional positive regard is such an important, revolutionary philosophy, and because implementing it can be challenging, I wanted to lift it out of the book and give it special attention. Maybe they just have a hard time paying attention. She was really good at drawing, and so I started to see her art.

Attention 52

Attention Coaching Teachers Essay 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

What started as an inquiry into literature, via the book “Race Sounds: The Art of Listening in African American Literature,” has become a teaching and training imperative for her as she works with everyone from teachers to school leaders, future doctors to museum curators. I said, “I'm just describing what I think he's trying to do.

Art 207

Art Science Reading Failure 207

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph essays. The five-paragraph essay is a topic long debated by educators, and strong opinions abound. Consider paragraphs.

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Essay English Writing Art 147

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

So some of those are ethnic based, pre professional based, performance arts based, religious groups on down the line. The students are doing that so much through their essay writing. I've seen so many essays talking about how there has been a dynamic shift in how they perceive themselves, but they don't know what to do with it.

Culture 40

Culture History Questions Essay 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Usually, when I begin writing an essay, I’m hopeful, or at least determined. I’m making myself write this essay, even though it scares me. Our bodies – and this essay – are about so much more than sex. Not this time. Writing about bodies – about my body – scares me. Becoming a teacher has exacerbated this immensely.

Essay 178

Essay Students Schools Discussions 178

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Thumbing through its pages, you might have discovered a brief essay penned by a prolific writer of science and science fiction, Isaac Asimov. If the essay also seems to conjure up android instructors who chat cheerfully about philosophy, well now you’re thinking like Billy—as friends, and Maria Bot, call Barry. Maria Bot agrees.

Teachers 155

Teachers Education Instructors Intelligence 155

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

Over the last few years my classroom has gotten a lot of attention. In 2012 I took a job as a general education language arts teacher, working with at-risk youths. Students who got most of the recall questions wrong, but did brilliantly on their essays, were still failing, which was inherently unfair.

Attention 143

Attention Special Education Curriculum Testing 143

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

There is a very long and very clear history of scholarship that shows that many common approaches have minimal or no effect on student writing growth, and it is so widely disliked by students and ignored by many teachers that Brock Haussamen (2003) famously called it the skunk at the garden party of the language arts (p.

Languages 69

Languages Language English Writing 69

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 30, 2025

High school brains work overtime whether writing an essay or solving multi-step equations, they need a moment to hit the pause button. Use them as a quirky bell ringer, an exit ticket, or a mental reset for a tough topic to grab your students’ attention. That’s where brain breaks for high school come in.

High School 52

High School High School Schools Students 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

An associate professor in UVA’s Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures , Stepanic earned the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Teacher of the Year Award in 2012. If you’re not entertaining students enough, they’re not going to pay attention to you. Professors will often ask me, “Why are you so good?

Education 133

Education Lecturing History Quizzes 133

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 11, 2025

Michelle Yeoh, actress Actress Michelle Yeoh is the first Asian woman to win an Academy Award for Best Actress and is known for her martial-arts-infused roles in films. Born into an affluent Malaysian family, Yeoh initially pursued a career as a ballerina before being crowned Miss Malaysia in 1983.

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Teaching Social Studies History Writing 93