Catlin Tucker

APRIL 27, 2021

It is also how we communicate to our students that we value the process over the product. Assignment Checklist. These are often the same things that teachers outline in the initial description of the assignment, task, or project. Feedback is how students feel seen and supported. Peer Review Using Rubrics.

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Feedback Peer Review Assignments Online Learning 546

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

The overall quality of students’ work also suffers when they do not have the time and space needed to fully engage with academic tasks or produce artifacts to express and communicate their learning. Students benefit from the freedom to read at their own pace, ensuring they fully comprehend the material before moving on.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 10, 2015

Now, I get to experience how Google Classroom makes it easier to communicate with students, manage student work and provide meaningful feedback. I decided to read their book during our family reading night routine. Keeler and Libbi cover everything from going paperless to organizing assignments to collecting data.

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English Feedback Assignments Communication 413

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

My students were reading Of Mice and Men and attempting to complete an explicit/implicit chart. I knew I needed to work directly with small groups to review the difference and model what it looks like to read a text and identify both explicit and implicit information.

Blended Learning 420

Blended Learning Middle School Middle School STEM 420

eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2020

Related content: In a time of crisis, a reading tournament scores big. These risks, nevertheless, can be mitigated through shared experiences and the maintenance of interpersonal communication. 2100) suffering from the effects of climate change and communicating their feelings in a letter to previous generations.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

I know many teachers reading this don’t have flexible furniture. When I coach teachers using the station rotation model that combines individual and collaborative learning activities both online and offline , we talk about how to arrange the furniture in the room to communicate the type of task students are doing.

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Motivation Learning Outcomes Communication Coaching 481

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. The benefit of assigning video instruction for homework is that students can control the time, place, and pace of the learning experience when they watch the video at home.

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Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 467

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

To do this effectively, you have to really understand the information you are attempting to communicate visually. While teachingRay Bradbury’s futuristic novel Fahrenheit 451 , I wanted my students to examine why society shifted from reading books and valuing literature to burning books. Just in time for summer reading!

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Reading Evaluation Assignments Communication 420

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. It’s especially true when it comes to writing assignments: With poor writing skills, students can’t deal with essays and other homework the way they need to get a good grade.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 290

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2023

They mirror the shortcomings of communication via texting. Texting quickly becomes the dominant space for written communication in their lives. The question asked was: “Why does Anne hide Peter’s shoes?” Notice the missing initial capitalization, the lack of closing punctuation, and the use of a sentence fragment.

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Writing Students Communication Critical Thinking 281

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment. It’s intimidating.

Writing 329

Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 329

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

Last week it dawned on me that I can assign homework to be completed in pairs and groups virtually. Not only did students complete the assignments, but they were excited about it. Second, I communicated directly with parents. Here are some ideas for using assigned virtual partnerings and groupings with your students.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2018

Too often students become overwhelmed by all of the work teachers assign and lose sight of what they would like to achieve. Students work in teams using the design-thinking process, which requires that they communicate, collaborate, solve problems, take risks, and manage their time effectively.

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Students Grades Achievement Evaluation 420

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

That has sparked a burst of activity by teachers at schools and colleges to change their assignments to make them harder to game with this new tech — and hopefully more human in the process. For instance, on a recent assignment, some of the homework that came in didn’t sound like typical student work he was used to.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

They may express and communicate what they know or can do in different ways. Instead of assigning all students a single subject or issue to focus on for their argument, you can provide a list of topics and encourage students to select one of interest. Example: Craft a Strong Argument.

Blended Learning 521

Blended Learning Essay Feedback Writing 521

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 28, 2020

I want students to complete assignments because they are meaningful, interesting, and rewarding, not because they are worth points. Parents are frustrated by what they perceive is a lack of communication from teachers about how their students are progressing. On the other side of this tension are secondary teachers with 150+ students.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Communication 343

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2019

As I was reading “From Transactional to Transformational Leadership” by Bernard Bass, I was struck by the parallels between leadership and teaching. They use reward charts and other external incentives, like class parties or the promise of points, to entice students to follow directions, complete assignments, and pay attention in class.

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Teaching Motivation Attention Classroom Management 419

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Communication as a student in a foreign land depends heavily on knowledge of the language. The Ask a Tech Teacher international team has a few broader issues to think about when considering what barriers face students in foreign lands: Language: The Biggest Communication Barrier for Foreign Students? Ive been on the same page also.

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Language Languages Communication English 133

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. Students are assigned a tech-integrated project and are faced with limited resources and inadequate workspaces to use the latest tools. This happens all over the country in traditional educational buildings today.

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Teachers Students Assignments Communication 280

eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

The platform’s customization options enable me to design assignments that cater to each student’s unique learning needs, promoting a more inclusive and effective educational experience. This exercise helps them practice essential communication skills and familiarizes them with the process of visiting a healthcare professional.

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Special Education Skills Education Feedback 289

eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on first-year teaching supports. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

How to know if a student uses AI to cheat on written assignments? More than that: If students often ask ChatGPT to generate essays or make those essays longer , their writing and communication skills will suffer. We know that technologies affect how people read, write, and think. Below are five ways students can (correctly!)

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Academic Integrity 303

eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. 1 most-read story focuses on some of the biggest education trends from 2023. This year’s no.

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Education Motivation Game-Based Learning Reading 319

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The Assignment: Exploring Leadership Through Superheroes In this assignment, students are asked to compare five leadership styles—autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire (sometimes called free-rein style), transactional, and transformational—with the leadership qualities of at least three superheroes.

Assignments 113

Assignments Teaching Ethics Fairness 113

eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2025

While podcasts have remained a solid contender in the way we consume information in the last two decades, they also provide a simple yet powerful medium that can help students in their literacy and communication growth. All four domains (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) are present.

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Communication Writing Language Languages 273

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Although there is still pushback, many benefits to incorporating technology into the classroom have been identified, including instant access to information, supporting different learning styles, and incorporating things like creativity, communication, and digital literacy (explorance, 2023).

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Blended Learning Learning Assignments Beliefs 253

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

When learning a second language, it’s important to teach reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Communication activity. Some teachers use Tic Tac Toe sheets for weekly homework assignments. Quizizz – I love this tool the best because it tests accuracy instead of speed. Games that don’t require tech: Dice games.

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Middle School Middle School Learning Language 279

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Maybe they forget to turn in assignments, have trouble organizing their thoughts, or feel overwhelmed by fast-paced lessons. Whether its reinforcing math concepts, improving reading comprehension, or learning a new language, these resources make learning more engaging and effective. Communication is at the heart of this partnership.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 144

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Oftentimes the learners fail to understand the vocabulary of the book that sets the obstacles for the reading comprehension, or fail to discuss the topic because they lack active vocabulary. The idea is the main component in argument forming, and actively learn teaches students how to communicate by asking and answering questions.

Art 226

Art Language Languages Plagiarism 226

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Collaboration: How effectively does the student work with peers, share responsibilities, and communicate? For example, suppose small groups of students are discussing a text they’ve read, a video they watched, or a podcast they listened to. formal writing assignment, performance task, project).

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Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 431

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. Why give students a reading that they may not do when you could give them a video they are more likely to watch? Their grades reflect their responses.

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Distance Learning Assignments Questions Reading 281

eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2019

Reading assessments and other measures can provide a picture of where a student is at the moment and how they have progressed over time, but there are daily opportunities for teachers to collect important information. Haggen said he liked to use writing portfolios with comments on each assignment.

Writing 273

Writing Assignments Achievement Reading 273

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For instance, 29 percent of students said: “Let me do assignments on topics that interest me if they are relevant to what we are learning.” In an English class, for instance, teachers might give students a list of books relating to a certain theme and let students choose which book to read.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

As Fisher and Frey state in Content Area Vocabulary Learning, vocabulary is a significant predictor of overall reading comprehension and student performance. Having a wide range of vocabulary helps students be better readers, writers, and ultimately better communicators. Teachers can assign the template to their learners.

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Technology Middle School Middle School Assignments 229

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

To address this challenge, Writable ’s new generative AI-powered tools include AI-generated prompts and assignments, AI-suggested feedback and scores on any writing assignment, as well as tools to guard against plagiarism and detect AI writing in student submissions. To learn more about HMH’s Writable , visit hmhco.com/Writable.

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Plagiarism Teachers Feedback Essay 246

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. This year’s 4th most-read story focuses on creating an online elementary program. Elementary education is the foundation for early learning, providing students with the skills and community they need for future success in school and life.

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Blended Learning Hybrid Learning Learning Academic Integrity 285