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. Projects ranged from writing songs and developing websites to creating artwork with poetry and coding video games.

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Failure Learning Students Culture 277

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. 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. Lessons learned: Confidence affects effort.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 185

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? This approach reduces the fear of failure and minimizes the need for cheating.

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Academic Integrity Failure Culture Students 205

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The nation must act with urgency and purpose to ensure all students have access to high quality online learning opportunities,” they write. Approximately 9 million low-income students lack both the hardware and the internet connectivity to enable virtual learning, which “represents a national emergency,” the authors of the report write.

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Learning Internet Writing Failure 218

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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Failure Assignments Communication Middle School 212

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. This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators.

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 278

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

During the two-week module on positive psychology, I wanted students to experience research and writing as positive and engaging activities. Here is how the project unfolded: Day 1: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Writing The project began by gauging student interest in co-authoring an article on student wellness.

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Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 109

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. His writing was riddled with so many errors that it was difficult for me to read. The path to success.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. Communicate major assignments and assessments in advance and give students opportunities to plan their time and effort. This establishes a baseline of each students writing style, vocabulary, and skills. The time put Ruiz in 11th place.

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

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.

Failure 167

Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 167

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

During the two-week module on positive psychology, I wanted students to experience research and writing as positive and engaging activities. Here is how the project unfolded: Day 1: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Writing The project began by gauging student interest in co-authoring an article on student wellness.

Collaborative Research 92

Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 92

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I kept on looking at how we could take these skills of being able to read, write, and think, and take them to the next level. I kept on looking at how we could take these skills of being able to read, write, and think, and take them to the next level. I want my students to write every day. Failure also motivates me.

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Failure Motivation Writing Culture 164

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. As a first step, I decided to morph a writing unit that I've taught for the past two years to let students take the lead.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

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.

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Education Failure Students Exams 209

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2023

Student disengagement in writing at the secondary level is a pervasive challenge school districts face nationwide. Many students perceive writing as formulaic, disconnected from their life experiences and lacking opportunities for personal agency and expression. How do you hope students benefit from the writing tools you developed?

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Education Writing Students Social Studies 167

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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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 201

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 123

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Literacy skills, including listening, speaking, reading and writing, can be difficult to support because students can fall on such a broad spectrum. Students enter school at varying levels of preparedness for reading and usually spend the first few years of school learning to read.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Two weeks into the school year, I have students who are still struggling with the diagnostic test, which is designed to see where the students are in reading comprehension and writing for 11th grade literature. That will continue the cycle of failure. Every student in my class had taken and failed the graduation writing test.

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Failure Learning Testing Assignments 114

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!, or another that you prefer.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Failure to achieve those rates could have led to price increases on course materials. McGraw-Hill and Pearon emphasized that instructors retain the freedom to decide whether to assign bundled materials to students in their classes, and those students can then choose whether to opt out.

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Textbooks Accessibility Confidentiality Instructors 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. In these structured written assignments, students reflected on their progress and made an estimate of their grade. I almost always agreed with students’ self-reflections and their self-assigned grades. I often thought mistakes meant failure.

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Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 184

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In the first part of my class, I’ll have them engage in activities where we’ll do a shared Google Doc so I can actually see their engagement and the thoughts that they’re having as they write words or add things to diagrams. So there should be failure in all of our classes. At the after party I help them with some of the reading.

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 148

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.

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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

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This reflective practice enhances self-awareness and encourages a growth mindset, where students view challenges and failures as opportunities for improvement. In most humanities courses that involve reflective writing, e-portfolios can be seamlessly integrated into the coursework.

Student Engagement 126

Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 126

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Once they sign up for courses, an assigned mentor is supposed to check in on them regularly—sometimes even weekly—through a call or text or video meeting. In practice, that meant each Monday, text messages were sent reminding students about assignments due that week, along with estimates for how much time each task would likely take.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

The first time a declaration along similar lines was made by a student visiting the writing studio, I was taken aback. “Of I do not understand how to do assignments.” Students in the latter group would see mistakes and failures as a demoralizing reflection of their limited ability and as a signal to give up.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Many of our courses have 48 students enrolled, and writing is assigned in all classes. The writing assignments include invention work, draft work, and final versions, which all require feedback and evaluation. We do not use any machine grading. The important thing to remember is to consider your time, energy, and focus.

Grades 116

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Those who research in this area write for others working in the area. So, when someone writes an informative, engaging overview filled with examples of how what’s known about motivation can be applied in face-to-face and online courses, it’s a gift—to be appreciated and used! She writes what she knows with commitment.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Many of our courses have 48 students enrolled, and writing is assigned in all classes. The writing assignments include invention work, draft work, and final versions, which all require feedback and evaluation. We do not use any machine grading. The important thing to remember is to consider your time, energy, and focus.

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Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 111

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. But something about this project pulled them together.

Feedback 167

Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010). 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

However, in conversations with faculty, many discuss that although they take the time to write or discuss explicit feedback with their students, the students may not read it or if they do read it, they don’t apply the feedback given to future course assignments which can lead to frustration from faculty leading to a ‘what’s the point then?’

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Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 119

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

The growth mindset isn’t anything new—people have been writing about it more frequently for the last few years. to, “I can tell you worked hard on that assignment!” Those names are just a few in the pool of “famous failures”—and in this case, the “failure” part is more important than the “famous” part.

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Science Failure Teachers History 113

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

The first time a declaration along similar lines was made by a student visiting the writing studio, I was taken aback. “Of I do not understand how to do assignments.” Students in the latter group would see mistakes and failures as a demoralizing reflection of their limited ability and as a signal to give up.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98