Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. Saucier, Ph.D.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 97

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. Students listen to the song and fill in the blanks.

Language 95

Language Languages Instructors Culture 95

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Gen ed is great, so why is it discussed as a “hurdle.” Currently, she is in a general psychology course, and although she finds the concepts interesting, she is grinding her way through online discussion boards to finish her degree. Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! Let’s dive in.

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Syllabus Education Ethics Instructors 94

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. I especially wanted students to understand that the final assignment was anything but.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 73

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This article explores how these three components can reshape flipped learning and address persistent challenges such as student unpreparedness, fear of participation, and lack of motivation. This data is accessible to both teachers and students through visual dashboards, which serve as powerful motivators and intervention tools.

Critical Thinking 94

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 94

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This article explores how these three components can reshape flipped learning and address persistent challenges such as student unpreparedness, fear of participation, and lack of motivation. This data is accessible to both teachers and students through visual dashboards, which serve as powerful motivators and intervention tools.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 87

Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. Consider using written reflections, discussion boards, or tools like Jamboard and Padlet. I also let students revise one major assignment. Often, it’s a preparedness gap.

Teaching 53

Teaching Elementary School Elementary School Failure 53

Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. Consider using written reflections, discussion boards, or tools like Jamboard and Padlet. I also let students revise one major assignment. Often, it’s a preparedness gap.

Teaching 53

Teaching Elementary School Elementary School Failure 53

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Online courses can quickly become overwhelming as the emails, discussion posts, and papers roll in like the next COVID-19 variant. For example, look at the log in records.

eLearning 68

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 68

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation. Students listen to the song and fill in the blanks.

Language 64

Language Languages Instructors Culture 64

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Online courses can quickly become overwhelming as the emails, discussion posts, and papers roll in like the next COVID-19 variant. For example, look at the log in records.

eLearning 66

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 66

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

” assigning points : Blunt strongly discourages assigning points to whiteboard retrieval activities. You can do completion or participation, but I would avoid assigning points you don’t want to create anxiety around making mistakes.” They don’t have that freeing-type zone that the erasers create.”

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Here are some of the benefits of prioritizing online engagement: Improved learning outcomes Increased motivation and self-esteem Enhanced understanding and retention Reduced isolation and increased community Improved completion rates These are the kinds of outcomes every parent hopes for. Interactive Games: Learning can (and should!)

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Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 25, 2025

Growing Word Wall: When students have extra time after an activity or assignment, have them draw and color a word that represents their feelings that day. To keep it focused, ask them to expand on a topic you’re currently covering, and assign teams for the beginning, middle, and end of the story.

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Counselling Math Assignments Art 87

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Establishing classroom organization by listing learning objectives, assignment due dates, and upcoming tests in your classroom lets you (and your students) stay one step ahead of the schedule. Incorporate project management Assigning too much homework can be detrimental to kids , rather than helpful. 2, 3, 4, 5, RL.7.1, 2, 3, 4, RL.8.1,

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Grades Teaching Teachers Teaching Philosophy 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

The activity is designed for students to communicate and work together, so your students will enjoy discussions and movement while working on their vision board templates. The vision boards are accompanied by a writing assignment, and then they’re all hung as a class display.

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Learning Disabilities Disabilities Students Art 64

k12

JUNE 24, 2025

She was also my animation teacher, and she was always very excited to see my submitted work come through, which motivated me a lot since animation is my career focus. For example, they have an announcement board, and I usually find motivating quotes or weekly facts that they post there. Who is your favorite teacher?

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Schools Grades Students Online Learning 52

k12

JUNE 10, 2025

Online learning works for me because I am responsible and motivated to achieve high standards in my academics. For starters, my online school allows me to have flexibility in my class and assignment schedule. I finish around 3 PM, depending on whether I complete any additional discussions. It is hard to list all the things.

History 52

History English Schools Students 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

The slides include both psychology-specific and social-emotional prompts, including prompts about motivation and emotion, states of consciousness, and developmental psychology. 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school.

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2017

Online learning students, like any other students, like to spend time procrastinating before they get to completing assignments given in class. Many teachers struggle to come up with tasks and projects that really engage and motivate students to skip procrastination and get working. The Photo Online Assignment. Let’s begin: 1.

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Assignments Online Learning Teachers Learning 211

Catlin Tucker

MAY 2, 2025

Facilitating meaningful discussion in a physical classroom is challenging enough. Discussion plays a vital role in building social presence, or the sense of being seen, heard, and valued, in an online course. Why Prioritize Online Discussions? They can: Connect students to an online learning community. That foundation is trust.

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Discussions Students Participation STEM 195

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

The moves came prior to the motivation. Cravings are the drives that motivate us to act. Building up a habit like the one I have done for exercise involves both intrinsic and extrinsic motivators for most people. For instance, instructors can strategically assign tasks that can be auto-graded, or spot-checked.

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Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 202

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education. Self-assessing Practice and Review Too often, when teachers assign review and practice in class or for homework, the responsibility for checking the accuracy of that work falls on the teacher.

Evaluation 428

Evaluation Assignments Failure Discussions 428

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

My Twitter feed is full of articles and blogs discussing the research on homework, particularly at the elementary level, and how counterproductive it can actually be. Because I clearly saw the value of not assigning homework elementary level, I had to take a closer look at why I was assigning homework at the high school level.

Assignments 420

Assignments Motivation Reading High School 420

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

Our discussions culminated in selecting specific challenges to explore in-depth, with the goal of prototyping solutions at the Learning Leaders Summit in Dubai. During our discussion, a crucial question was raised: “In terms of teacher training, should schools begin with UDL or blended learning?”

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Motivation 460

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.

Assignments 204

Assignments Essay History Social Studies 204

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

If teachers are using their small group time to facilitate discussions, the U-shape seating arrangement encourages student participation. That way, the students’ screens are visible to the teacher if they want to quickly scan the room to ensure students are on-task and working in the assigned online environment.

Motivation 481

Motivation Learning Outcomes Communication Coaching 481

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!

Assignments 131

Assignments Motivation Science Study 131

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015). If students are working on a formal writing assignment or project, teachers can schedule 5-minute feedback sessions with individual students.

Feedback 546

Feedback Blended Learning Writing Communication 546

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

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. This sustained engagement helps maintain their interest and motivation in the learning process.

Teachers 481

Teachers Art Feedback Writing 481

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Teachers have the time and space to facilitate differentiated small group instruction, engage learners in interactive modeling sessions, facilitate small group discussions, and provide real-time feedback on work in progress. Agency and autonomy can yield higher levels of motivation over time. Students can be grouped flexibly (e.g.,

Blended Learning 535

Blended Learning Critical Thinking Communication Participation 535

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

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Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 126

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can even tap student enthusiasm for new technology by assigning–and assessing student learning using–multimedia projects. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. These types of assignments are also harder to farm out to AI! Motivate students to act by incorporating action planning into assignments.

Teaching 341

Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 341

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Instead, teachers must strive to design student-centered learning experiences that challenge the students to think, discuss, problem-solve, collaborate, question, create, and reflect. The issue of grading and motivating students to see value in work that is not graded is complex and multifaceted. What did they do well?

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Blended Learning Teachers Learning Grades 535

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Engagement : This involves identifying what motivates and excites students about learning. Additionally, these digital tools need to support the means of expression through written assignments, presentations, or discussions to make the learning environment as engaging as possible.

Learning 300

Learning Syllabus Universal Design Quizzes 300

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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Instructors Assignments Writing History 148