eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For many parents, teachers and caregivers who struggled through a year of remote learning, with all of its online homework assignments and Zoom classes, this has been a major relief. If my friends are paying attention, maybe I should too”).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teachers are facing ever-growing demands: providing high-quality lessons, attending to individual student needs, and managing administrative loads that stretch their time and energy to the limit. Despite their dedication, many teachers are at risk of leaving a profession they love simply because they are exhausted and unsupported.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2021

One of the challenges teachers in concurrent classrooms face is feeling torn between the needs of students in two learning landscapes simultaneously. Teachers feel guilty because they know one group of students is commanding more of their time and attention. If that doesn’t work, then they can ask the teacher a question.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Teachers can use Gemini to create personalized lesson plans in a much shorter amount of time. With Gemini, my planning is so fast and easy, said STEM teacher Natali Barretto. 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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Students who spent formative years learning online may be too nervous to raise a hand in class or have trouble paying attention. Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 16, 2024

How do assignments made by online professionals get good scores? Here are tips to make your assignment look professional, from the Ask a Tech Teacher international team: Top Tips And Tricks To Make Your Assignment Look Professional Introduction One of the most important aspects of an assignment is how you present your report.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 29, 2015

One thing I emphasize when I lead professional development for teachers is the importance of flipping and engaging. I authored a resource for MindShift titled “ Teachers’ Guide to Using Videos ,” which includes a section describing a range of strategies a teacher can employ to flip and engage.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. You have a toolbox of strategies from your pre-teacher service work. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. newsletters.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

Homework has been getting a lot of attention in the media. As a parent and teacher, I find this conversation is particularly interesting. My children spend 6+ hours in a classroom with their teachers each day. Despite having clear motivations for assigning homework, I always worried I gave students too much homework.

Assignments 420

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

” This is a sentiment I’ve heard repeatedly from teachers navigating the demands of the concurrent classroom. As I’ve said in previous blog posts, teaching in a concurrent classroom is the most challenging teaching assignment I can imagine. One station is teacher-led, and the other station is an online station.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2019

The more I learn about leadership, the more convinced I am that teachers need leadership training in credential school. However, for many teachers, classroom management and behavior issues are constant distractions that complicate an already challenging job. This reminds me of the way many teachers run their classrooms.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Why Would a Teacher Use the Flipped Classroom Model? auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. I caution teachers not to do this.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Yet, many of the teachers I work with repeat the same information and directions multiple times in a lesson. Sometimes this is the result of students who are distracted or not paying attention. Whatever the reason, repeating directions or instructions steals precious class minutes and often leaves the teacher feeling frustrated.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. You have a toolbox of strategies from your pre-teacher service work. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. newsletters. I’m New Here.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2020

Student mental health and educator burn-out received more attention, too, as students struggled to balance anxiety and worry with school assignments. Related content: 3 ways to boost instructional coaching during COVID-19.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

However, not all teachers have received the adequate resources and training needed to teach remotely. One of the major issues teachers are struggling with is effectively engaging students. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of K-12 and college students have transitioned to online learning.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Wiggins says the best feedback is: Goal-oriented or referenced: Feedback should clarify the goals of the assignment or task, guiding students toward a clear desired result or outcome. She points out that AI doesn’t do better thinking than the teacher, but it has the advantage of not getting tired.

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k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

This approach respects the natural constraints of attention and working memory. For instance, the University of Murcia integrated chatbots into their learning management system to provide real-time feedback on assignments, resulting in a 30% improvement in students understanding of course material [4].

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When I volunteer in my children’s elementary classrooms (1st and 3rd grade), I am struck by how frequently the teacher finds time to work directly with small groups of students to offer additional support, review concepts, assess understanding, and practice skills. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

However, not all teachers have received the adequate resources and training needed to teach remotely. One of the major issues teachers are struggling with is effectively engaging students. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of thousands of K-12 and college students have transitioned to online learning.

Gamification 323

Gamification Distance Learning Students Motivation 323

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. Too often students become overwhelmed by all of the work teachers assign and lose sight of what they would like to achieve.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?” To overcome these limitations, teachers can identify the instruction that they would present the same way for all students and create video instruction. Some teachers do not assign homework.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2022

A second fill-in-the-blank question invites students to add if there is anything else they’d like to tell the teacher, though that’s optional. Some have shared personal struggles that lead him to refer them to the school counselor, or to give a fellow teacher a heads-up that a student might be particularly stressed-out.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

At the start of a virtual workshop last week, a teacher sent me a note in the chat saying that she wanted to quit. I worry about the impact that this moment in education is having on teacher engagement. I worry about the impact that this moment in education is having on teacher engagement. She was frustrated and exhausted.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2022

Teachers are often familiar with the associated behaviors of ADHD. Some of the most common symptoms of ADHD include difficulty sustaining attention, completing assigned tasks at school (often including homework), physical restlessness, strain in social relationships and appearing off task due to daydreaming.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

As a graduate student and teacher, I’m only known to my students from the collarbones up, so everything within the camera frame is appropriate, clean, and gives off that put-together vibe. Students and teachers are lonely, isolated, depressed. In the time of TikTok, attention spans have waned. And admittedly, mine has too.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2024

Tips for Teachers to Balance Work and Life During the Busy Parent-Teacher Conference Season The parent-teacher conference season often demands your full attention since you will have to create and update records as well as give specific feedback to every parent about their child. Most importantly, get adequate sleep.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

teachers are outnumbered on average 16 students to 1 teacher in the classroom (though this number can be as high as 23 to 1 in states such as California ). One issue facing teachers is the seemingly never-ending stream of curriculum changes and standardization. So, what is the root of the problem, and what can we do about it?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. I often think about how our students’ futures would be different if more teachers were able to have such a connection with individual students, like I had with Ms. For me it was Ms. SEL doesn’t just live at school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Here are five strategies teachers can take to make STEM come alive in their classrooms. Teachers can lead activities that allow students to see concepts in action, including simple experiments with household materials to demonstrate principles like gravity, friction, or chemical reactions.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, teachers and students have complete access to smartphones, tablets, or laptops in all classes. Instead, students and teachers can meet online and continue their work through files available on the cloud. For instance, it gives teachers the flexibility to create a customized approach to learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

To help educators address neurodiversity in the classroom for Autism Pride Day on June 18, school therapy and teacher staffing agency, here are some best practices to ensure all students can become successful learners. This may include offering additional time for assignments, providing visual aids, or using assistive technology.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

My children are assigned to watch online videos and answer questions about them in an online form. No doubt, this assigned screen time probably comes from a good place. Teachers want to provide students with experiences they will enjoy. They couldn’t take the place of teachers, peers, and classroom conversations.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

If they don’t receive feedback from the teacher saying otherwise, or if they receive one short “good job” post to a comment, they tend to start thinking of their contributions as individual notes to the teacher, instead of as contributions to a whole-classroom discussion. This models what we’d like students to do.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Step 2: Focus on your teachers and staff Your teachers and staff make the magic, so it’s important to focus on hiring staff and teachers who are passionate and excited about online learning. For example, we encourage our teachers to bring props into their lesson, like they would in a physical classroom.

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Blended Learning Hybrid Learning Learning Academic Integrity 285

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Formative assessment helps teachers gauge how effective their instruction has been at helping students learn concepts and apply skills. When teachers share formative assessment data with students, it becomes a powerful tool for goal setting, progress monitoring, and reflection.

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