eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Easy-to-follow instructions guide students through data collection, measurement, data analysis, and interpretation, while feedback provided by both open-ended and auto-graded questions reinforces correct ideas. 

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Art Grades Education Schools 258

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. English Language arts teachers might want to create 5 ins and outs for reading, writing, language, and soft skills/study skills.

English 420

English Coaching Language Languages 420

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

You may need to ask yourself some additional questions: . She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school. Which of the new tools that you explored this year would you like to not only use again but explore more thoroughly? Which of them didn’t work for you? Why didn’t they work?

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Art Online Learning Language Languages 545

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2023

The pandemic has led to big questions about the value of higher education, and that has been especially true of liberal arts colleges. add caption here Perhaps the best example is a book written by two longtime professors called “The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention.” Is that not what’s happening?

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Art History Accessibility Study 176

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

During this process, students observe closely, interpret their observations thoughtfully, and generate questions that spark curiosity and drive inquiry. Whether exploring scientific phenomena, literary works, historical events, or visual art, observation is the foundation of deeper exploration and understanding.

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Art 327

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2020

Giving students this time to practice during a video conferencing sessions creates space for students to try a strategy while still having access to the teacher and peers if they get stuck or have questions. #8 They are used to engage students in a variety of activities, from reading to math to art projects. 8 Online Learning Stations.

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Students Math Writing Discussions 546

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

It’s like a scavenger hunt: Find three things, answer three questions. Artful annotation inspires them to record their responses in their own unique ways. Guided Annotation (Whole Class) To help students learn to prioritize information, the teacher will pose questions that reinforce the points made in the explicit model.

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Art Teaching Feedback Reading 145

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? Art Projects: In the visual arts, students often work on projects that require creativity, experimentation, and refinement. Despite this reality, most learning is teacher-paced, not student-paced.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 481

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Answering those questions creates clarity about what teachers and students are working toward, making it easier to design a rubric to measure progress toward those learning objectives. What should students know, understand, and be able to do at the end of that unit or learning cycle?

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Fairness Assignments Feedback Evaluation 545

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 15, 2017

I want them to play sports, get lost in great books, collect bugs in our backyard, and engage with one another creating art projects, choreographing dance numbers, and playing good old fashioned board games. In the context of education, it’s crucial that we question why we are using technology. I want them to be kids.

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Critical Thinking Writing Attention Art 418

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

What questions or suggestions do they have? Students can do pen and paper practice, read and annotate, compose a piece of writing, work on an art project, create a flowchart or concept map, or tinker to learn. What’s working? What are they struggling with? I suggest teachers work with the online group first.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Assignments 546

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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Blended Learning Feedback Universal Design Art 436

eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

Although I love teaching all subjects, I always choose English/language arts and social studies, in part because I love the challenge of engaging young leaners in these important subjects. You simply upload a slideshow or create one from scratch, then add questions, video clips, or polls to keep students engaged.

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Social Studies Study History English 332

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The options are extensive and confusing, and sales teams have mastered the art of introducing fear, uncertainty and doubt into the minds of their prospects. Ask them questions along the lines of the following: Do you have incident response plans? Do you have security testing happening on a regular basis? Magic doesn’t exist.

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Art Testing Questions Technology 354

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

For example, an argumentative writing standard for English Language Arts reads, “Write arguments to support claims in an analysis of substantive topics or texts, using valid reasoning and relevant and sufficient evidence.” What questions or wonderings do you have about this topic? What two questions do they have?

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Learning Knowledge Writing Discussions 543

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2019

We can give lots of examples to the “When will I use this again” question. Think about the arts. The arts are made possible because of STEM. Performing arts includes set design, costume design, and acoustical panels, and STEM is part of how we create all this. Those are learned skills, and that’s where we’re focused.

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STEM Learning Art Ethics 279

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

What grabbed my interest when considering the online courses was that the students were being asked to do big-picture thinking, and they were asked meaningful questions. As they looked at one of the essential questions for world history, which most of them were doing, the question was: “What is the role of art and religion in society?”

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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.

Middle School 325

Middle School Middle School STEM Interdisciplinary 325

Catlin Tucker

JULY 25, 2016

The texts are paired with Think Questions and writing prompts that I can use or adapt. Newsela has a growing collection of articles about science, art, health, war and peace, and money written at four different Lexile levels. StudySync has freed me from the limitations of our school book room.

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Online Learning Technology Blended Learning English 420

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

IXL language arts also incorporates gamification, but it is a paid subscription (free 30-day trial). Another feature is that the book offers a 10-question comprehensive quiz at the end, which can help indicate if the student grasped the story’s vocabulary and content.

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Gamification Student Engagement Students Reading 356

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Claim-Evidence-Question” routine. The routine can be applied to various situations, from analyzing a piece of art to discussing a historical event. Questions in this phase could include “What does this remind me of?”

Metacognitive Skills 360

Metacognitive Skills Discussions Art History 360

eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Adding IXL Language Arts to the list ensures that eligible local education agencies across the state can request reimbursement for purchasing the platform to enhance early literacy instruction. IXL is currently used by 20 percent of students in Missouri, accounting for more than 210,000 students.

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Secondary Education Grades Art Language 256

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2023

The integration of AI tools in English language arts (ELA) instruction has emerged as a potentially transformative pedagogical approach that could redefine the traditional landscape of education. I gave them permission to question the technology as well. These prompts require evidence and reasoning in a four or five sentence response.

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Language Languages Art Teachers 148

eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2025

K-12 students can use AI tools in various ways to boost creativity through art, storytelling, music, coding, and more. Here are 5 AI tools for classroom creativity: Quillionz : Helps teachers and students generate quizzes, multiple-choice questions, and flashcards from text input and encourages self-assessment and interactive learning.

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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Essay Art 244

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2022

Here’s a question for you: “What do you think is the most unpopular subject in school?” This begs the question: How do we as teachers infuse curiosity and creativity into our math lessons? The art of math. Imagine for a moment if we taught art the same way we taught math. I can certainly understand the sentiment.

Math 246

Math Art Knowledge Questions 246

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Challenge: Encourage them to think about a question they have about this object or creature. Art Exploration Connect: After creating an artwork, ask students to describe what inspired them or what personal experiences influenced their creation. Challenge: Have them identify parts of the concept or problem they find tricky or puzzling.

Metacognitive Skills 334

Metacognitive Skills Discussions Art Math 334

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2017

The art of teaching should matter to every educator, so it blows my mind when I see teachers who do not aggressively pursue their own learning. They ask questions, experiment with new ideas, ask for more resources, and grab every opportunity to learn. ” So, the question is, how to do we get teachers to want to continue learning?

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Teachers Motivation Coaching Curriculum 420

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Educators throughout the state can now administer the diagnostic as a beginning-of-year and mid-year assessment to measure students’ overall grade-level proficiency in math and English language arts based on Virginia’s Standards of Learning. To learn more about the IXL Diagnostic, please visit [link].

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Math English Art Language 211

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. One excellent features of this resource is that I can take videos and adapt them by embedding my own questions or audio. Then, once I assign the content, I can see who watched the video.

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Skills Assignments Students Art 317

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C., This narrow role was exhausting and disingenuous. I found myself dialing down my teacher self, showing up in ways that neither reflected nor respected my commitment to teaching and learning.

Education 120

Education Essay Culture Math 120

Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

After students have completed moving through the station rotation, I post these self-reflection questions for students to think about and discuss with a partner: On a scale of 1-5 (five being the highest), how well do you think the class did when moving from station to station? questions and helps students get on-task quickly.

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Coaching Blended Learning Assignments Middle School 339

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

These sessions are designed to help the next generation of young artists determine whether, and how, to pursue admission into LaGuardia, New York’s only public specialized high school for the arts. Tomorrow, August 20 th , will be the next online session, which already has over 270 families registered.

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Middle School Middle School Art High School 246

eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Traveling Science Workshops (TSW) are state curriculum-aligned, small group, in-classroom workshops that use simple, everyday materials and a hands-on approach to allow students to be scientists: exploring, observing, asking questions, and sharing discoveries. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Elementary School 276

Elementary School Elementary School Science STEM 276

eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

The question was not How do we get kids off their phones? A lot of them wanted an art club. Over the past two years, Engage IRL has been the catalyst for increasing access and opportunities for K-12 students to participate in clubs, sports, arts activities, and other community events.

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Disabilities Schools Students Art 290

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

I wanted to provoke them, to get them to ask questions, and to start using these tools—not to cheat—but to flip their learning on its head. Now I invited them to use ChatGPT during our final inquiry unit, during which they’d ask questions, come up with a plan, leverage their research, and then go public with their findings.

English 337

English Syllabus Intelligence Assignments 337

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Mental health: Research shows that being creative through the arts helps heal the mind and body. Educators talk about writing across the curriculum–what about arts across the curriculum? This is where PBL and maker education intersect. Why maker education?

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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 300

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

WIthin the lessons there is a wide variety of ideas presented from SEL lessons, to art lessons, to science lessons and so much more. For the older grades, there are videos where teachers can add comprehension questions to check for understanding. Then it provides questions to check comprehension. First, we listen to a story.

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Quizzes 339