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. Today, during parent-teacher conferences, a parent approached me and asked, “Did you used to teach at Meramec Elementary School?” That did not work for me at all.

Teachers 286

Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 286

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Demographics: Hillsboro High School is part of the Hillsboro Independent School District in Hillsboro, Texas. Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level.

Essay 185

Essay Failure Writing Students 185

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.,

Education 306

Education Internet Interdisciplinary Testing 306

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. Since traditional brick-and-mortar classes clearly weren’t working for him, John attempted online courses through his local high school. Classes were arduous for him, and he often didn’t pass them.

Teaching 189

Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Reforming Developmental Education According to the Community College Research Center, developmental education is essentially a “reteach” of high school and junior high school reading, writing, and math. Failure to do so will only compound the disparities present, particularly with our low-income communities.

Education 209

Education Failure Students Exams 209

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.

Quizzes 159

Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 159

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. But failure is the whole point of the exercise. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

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. In a teacher preparation CTE pathway course I taught to high school juniors and seniors, we grappled with these ideas together.

Failure 182

Failure Students Questions Teaching 182

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.

Lecturing 213

Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

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.

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning. With the rise of AI comes AR/VR.

Schools 337

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It Students at Western Governors start their experience with a consultation with an enrollment counselor.

Student Engagement 200

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Often, when I give my eighth grade students homework assignments, I receive many phone calls asking for help, or the work never gets done because the parents can’t help and don’t have the tools or resources to support them. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow.

Math 214

Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Ralphie’s case resulted in long-term suspension and assignment to Marietta Alternative Program and Services (MAPs), an alternative program within his local high school in Marietta, Ga., He was 14 years old. The juvenile court judge ordered him to attend the program five days a week from 8 a.m.

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Counselling Students Failure Motivation 187

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure.

Reading 167

Reading Failure Motivation Study 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

And that opinion doesn’t improve in high school. In fact, Forbes reported that 82% of public high schoolers in the well-to-do Montgomery County Maryland failed Algebra. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. Educational Applications.

Math 152

Math Failure Gamification Knowledge 152

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

It’s easier to provide a syllabus with structured projects and assignments that have assigned due dates and clear grading parameters. By placing the structure in the purpose of the assignment, I opened up more possibilities. Redesigning this course is going to be a journey of reflection and possible failure, but I am hopeful.

Teaching 163

Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Avoid the roulette of school models by engaging all stakeholders in the beginning: Collaboration and communication between schools within a given district must be factored into the district’s overall vision. Include experiences to build empathy among parents: When it comes to building a community vision, family matters.

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Failure Learning Elementary School Elementary School 135

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

My students don’t always work so collaboratively—they are ninth graders, after all, and are accustomed to working on individual assignments for the benefit of their own grades. They weren’t completing an assignment for a grade, but building something for real people. Traditionally, Annie Wright’s high school had been all girls.

Feedback 167

Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

These are middle and high school students who have developed solutions to major economic and social challenges, ranging from health care and transportation to agriculture and the environment. When my children went to school, I went to school also. I became a high school teacher. I have a unique background.

Education 167

Education Disabilities Knowledge High School 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

That will continue the cycle of failure. For those of us tasked with overcoming massive learning gaps and bringing success to at-risk students who have known nothing else but failure, this type of compromise might be the only way to do it. I’m at a new school, but the problem is the same. Flash forward five years.

Failure 114

Failure Learning Testing Assignments 114

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Your child has three missing assignments.” The idea was to see whether such personalized notifications could spur parents to play a more active role in their child’s schooling. Course failures dipped by 28 percent. It’s a delicate balance, and Bergman acknowledges he hasn’t quite found the perfect formula.

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 117

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Students are grouped by academic need so teachers can review topics with struggling students while the rest of the class works at their own pace, often on a playlist of exercises assigned by Canvas (grades 6-12) or Google Classroom (K-5). Research shows that for low-income students, this can be the difference between success and failure.

Blended Learning 148

Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 148

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. They learn why high school geometry, a topic most of them intend to teach in the future, is the way it is and why its results are true. In these structured written assignments, students reflected on their progress and made an estimate of their grade.

Feedback 184

Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 184

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

to, “I can tell you worked hard on that assignment!” History: Learning From Famous Diplomats and Sports Players Did you know that Michael Jordan did not make his high school baseball team, or that Steve Jobs was once fired from Apple? This meant accepting my mistakes, openly and visibly, in front of my class.

Science 113

Science Failure Teachers History 113

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

To determine placement in college-level or remedial courses, the students were randomly assigned either to a control group that used standardized exam scores—the normal procedure—or to an intervention group that used an alternative method: an algorithm. It did not use demographic data. The algorithm worked.

Exams 172

Exams English Math Instructors 172

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

High School Principal Joan Mosley in Brooklyn recently accepted this challenge. This free platform had been in her school for more than three years as one of her teachers believed it was the key to creating a student-centered learning environment. She publicly committed to learning Google Classroom.

Schools 134

Schools Culture Failure Teaching Methods 134

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Students with two or more flags were then assigned to an advisor for follow-up. “We If high school grads are declining [in college enrollment], then we need to keep everybody we have here,” said Rowland. Moore-Davis admits one of the biggest failures in the process was leaving out their bottom-line: students.

Counselling 126

Counselling Failure Instructors Coaching 126

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. Instead, I provide rich feedback.

Grades 104

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 104

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

Jason Glass said: I have an assignment for you. Unless you teach high school math, chemistry, or history and do so using a very traditional approach – it probably isn’t relevant, important, or useful. In my book, there is no greater moral failure for us as professional educators. via [link]. I love this so much.

Testing 88

Testing Failure Achievement History 88

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

It became the way by which BCPS told stories about what had and hadn’t worked, so that other educators, schools and districts could potentially garner tips and insights. A family works together on a digital challenge during Night of Innovation (Baltimore County Public Schools). According to the S.T.A.T.

Communication 130

Communication Coaching Learning Elementary School 130

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Things are bit trickier given our school’s culture. In a competitive school like Latin, not being able to climb up the proficiency ladder after a year’s worth of language study is interpreted as failure. Latin is a great school with passionate students who are genuinely curious in the intellectual world.

Grades 128

Grades Essay Languages Language 128

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com also offers a special (fee-based) Teacher Edition where educators can set up five virtual classrooms with up to 50 students in each, share class-themed videos, assign lessons and quizzes as homework, grade student work, print out worksheets, and get detailed reports on student progress. Create a classroom (in about ten seconds).

Exams 83

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 83

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

As I watched her access her classes, schedule, assignments, classmates, grades, teachers and email all in one place, I thought “How could we not have this for our school system?” As I watched her access her classes, schedule, assignments. all in one place, I thought “How could we not have this for our school system?”.

Failure 80

Failure Feedback Assignments Instructors 80

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98