eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

In college, assignments were purposeful, designed to deepen my understanding of the material rather than simply reinforce rote memorization. These assignments provided valuable opportunities to fail, seek help, and ultimately grow from the experience. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose. One student may be an incredible public speaker but may wrestle with written assignments. As educators, we can show our students that failure isnt the opposite of success–its a step toward it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2019

A school-avoidant student will continue to miss classes indefinitely and assignments will remain incomplete until term’s end. Triggers may include social interactions, academic pressures, or fears of failure. School avoidance is a symptom of anxiety.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Reduces Fear of Failure When students receive feedback that focuses on the process rather than just the end result, they are less likely to fear failure. This question prompts students to articulate the learning goal or objective for a particular task or assignment. writing assignments, performance tasks, projects).

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

A successful relationship between educators and parents requires this sort of constant communication, whether via phone call, email, or even an in-person conversation.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Some college courses simply provide a curved score for students to lower the failure rate or to stratify student performance. Students may choose to what degree they engage with an assignment to earn an A, B, or C, for example. Exams that do not reflect that criteria may have been poorly designed.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2019

Whether it’s failing to complete work at home, not turning in assignments, or avoiding school altogether, students with anxiety display an affect often confused with disinterest and complacency. As educators struggle to understand anxiety and its implications for student success in schools, so too do the parents of these students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

When we consider the studies showing the relationship between bullying, personal failure, and anger to school violence, we must pause and reflect on our own schools and classrooms. Assign passion projects. How can we develop a better school culture and make education a positive experience for all of our students? Probably not.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

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. Ask them to write short stories Teachers know that students don’t like writing assignments, especially those with strict requirements and deadlines.

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eSchool News

JULY 31, 2024

Online learning, for example, requires constant connectivity–should the network go down, students will have no way of accessing learning materials or turning in assignments. Just as the driver who only uses their backup camera struggles to reverse without it, so is the predicament educators find themselves in today.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? High stress, pressure, or anxiety around assessments The pressure to perform well on high-stakes tests or assignments can be overwhelming, especially for students who struggle with anxiety or feel that they have something to prove.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They will have some amazing successes—and some failures—as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. Give your students a short writing assignment and give ChatGPT the same one, then have your students compare them and talk about the differences.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

psychology, English/communication, etc) it may even be possible to embed these practices into assignments so that students have these skills before encountering a setback. link] The post Five Tips for Helping Post-Secondary Students Overcome Failure appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

psychology, English/communication, etc) it may even be possible to embed these practices into assignments so that students have these skills before encountering a setback. link] The post Five Tips for Helping Post-Secondary Students Overcome Failure appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues. How do you mean?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. I could not believe my eyes because this woman looked exactly like a fifth grader from my first teaching assignment. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

But when we asked educators where they learned the biggest lessons related to education and technology came, they largely told us it came from the classroom, through everyday interaction, failure, and perseverance among the students they see every day. A double bonus with pivotEd was that students could sign in through their Google accounts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. I could not believe my eyes because this woman looked exactly like a fifth grader from my first teaching assignment. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

After assigning a “standard” written essay based on materials that we were reading in class, I would have students read their essays at the front of the class while I recorded them. Students were correcting their work as they read out loud, which translated to better writing the next assignment.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Students earn points by completing a much wider variety of assignment and assessment pathways than what is typically seen in most higher education courses today. Students also have autonomy to choose what they want to do within that wide variety of assignments and assessments. We don’t want you to be a failure.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. Branch is known for his logical, easy-to-grasp course design, for his engaging assignments like The Armchair Anthropologist, and for the way his classes seem to fly by—which doesn’t happen by accident. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment. Source: Course Hero.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As long as the digital divide remains, it stands as a failure of national will that translates into greater educational inequities,” the former Education Secretaries write in the foreword. Asynchronous learning is better for independent study and when students are completing their individual assignments.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Much of what surprised me most makes up a lot of the final chapter, which is on failure. As teachers, we don’t get trained to think of failure as a positive thing in any way, even though as researchers we know that failure is a part of the learning process. I think that’s amazingly important for higher education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Departmental and school-wide conversations werent about how to inspire students or make learning meaningful, they were about tracking data and avoiding the label of failure. By the end of the course, my students had come to understand that teaching goes beyond simply delivering lessons or grading assignments.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort. In a classroom focused on avoiding errors and completing tasks, students may see the purpose of a math assignment as completing items 1-17 without any errors so it can be checked and graded.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. These issues made it extremely difficult for me to decipher his thoughts and grade his assignments. Then, I would give him one thing to correct for future assignments. The path to success.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent. For example, Bruff teaches a statistics course where he uses an infographics assignment that he adapted from Sidneyeve Matrix, an associate professor at Queen’s University, in Canada. “In

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s the sign-up link if the image above doesn’t work: [link] Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

The kids’ teachers did a good job of telling us what assignments or activities were most important, from their perspective. I modified the final assignment to be a manifesto. This translates to them not being able to view the web pages where assignments are stored.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. Failure could mean potential biologists, mathematicians or engineers being pushed out of the field.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

My hesitation was rooted in three main assumptions I made about my students: They lack the focus needed to complete self-directed assignments. Some are unmotivated to do an assignment without direct guidance. For most assignments, about 60 percent of students turn their work in.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I want my students to be able to have differentiated assignments and to be able to find the one that is most interesting. Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best. Otus Cofounder Chris Hull. Twitter: @otusHull / @otusk12. Website: www.otus.com. And not steal in a bad way.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In fact, the authors made the surprising conclusion that many instances of flipped learning involve more time spent on passive learning than the traditional lecture model, because some professors both assign short video lectures and spend some time in class lecturing to prepare for class activities.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

However, research from the last decade shows only 28 percent of community college students who take a developmental education course earn a degree within eight years, and many students assigned to developmental courses drop out before completing their sequence and enrolling in college-level courses.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. Learners in our programs who pay their own tuition are almost two times more likely to keep up with assignments in a course, compared to those whose seats are underwritten by a philanthropic funder. In many MOOCs, students feel like their assignments end up being submitted into a void.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S.,

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