Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Enacting equity pedagogy as an essential component of multicultural education (Banks & Banks, 1995) requires instructors to become change agents. Beginning Add literature/resources from neurodivergent, disabled, and diverse authors to assigned course readings and class activities. Replace and/or supplement outdated readings.

Accessibility 95

Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 95

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This technological support allows students to learn at their own pace and revisit complex material without feeling anxious or dependent solely on the instructor. This transparency not only improves learning outcomes but also enhances communication between instructors and students. Flipped Classroom 2.0

Critical Thinking 94

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 94

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This technological support allows students to learn at their own pace and revisit complex material without feeling anxious or dependent solely on the instructor. This transparency not only improves learning outcomes but also enhances communication between instructors and students. Flipped Classroom 2.0

Critical Thinking 88

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 88

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. ” assigning points : Blunt strongly discourages assigning points to whiteboard retrieval activities. . “So they’re retrieving and I can actually see what they’re doing in the moment,” she explains.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) 10 8th Grade Social-Emotional Writing Prompts Social-emotional learning is a way for students to find their place in the world around them while staying in touch with their own wants and needs. Yes, even math! What would you do?

Writing 52

Writing Grades Middle School Middle School 52

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. Does a student click on a link but the logs show they only looked at the directions for a complex assignment for 30 seconds? For example, look at the log in records.

eLearning 69

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 69

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. Does a student click on a link but the logs show they only looked at the directions for a complex assignment for 30 seconds? For example, look at the log in records.

eLearning 67

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 67

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates. Flexibility in format and modality such as recorded lectures, alternative assignments, or extended deadlinesmade students feel supported, capable, and seen. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 53

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. If your child is reluctant to get involved with other students, give them a little push to participate fully in group assignments or peer review activities. Peer Review and Group Projects: Online learning isn’t only about solo work.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

According to one of our Grade 6 teachers, Shannon Diven, her students could read but could not pull out details from the text to expand answers, explain answers, or to develop a piece of writing around the text (basically, reading comprehension). The instructor can leave comments for students (i.e., But achieving that goal isn’t easy.

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Reading Technology Feedback Instructors 423

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

With the flexibility that came with pandemic-era school, they’re not used to firm deadlines or strict grading. Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable. Some students don’t understand how important assignments are, Beckett says.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 196

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? Do I grade a student lower if she/he isn't able to write a song or create some kind of representative artistic element? What do I do?

Assignments 191

Assignments Grades History Ethics 191

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?

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Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 267

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested? x Interested?

Assignments 166

Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 166

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. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

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Instructors Assignments Writing History 148

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error. Time-Lapse History Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin in Oakland, California, has used process tracking in her writing classes. It can create a time-lapse video of the documents creation as well.

Instructors 202

Instructors History English Writing 202

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

The instructor can decide if you want to let anyone who has the link be able to collaborate, protect your ideas with a password, or require people to set up accounts before they can engage. This is just one example of a tool that makes it easy for student-to-student interaction without requiring much effort from instructors to set it up.

Instructors 164

Instructors Syllabus Peer Review Students 164

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Ask any teacher what his/her biggest “pain point” is related to teaching and the majority will report “the take home” or “the grading.” Marika and I use Google Classroom to assign and manage our students’ work. ” Sharing the load with my co-teacher has made a world of difference.

Teaching 386

Teaching English Feedback Assignments 386

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. Her score on that exam was so low, in fact, that she realized she had no chance to get an A in the course, no matter how well she might do on future tests and assignments. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again.

Grades 198

Grades Exams Feedback Testing 198

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

In his 21 years of teaching, Jesse Stommel says he has never put a grade on a piece of student’s work. What I actually found was I changed my own grading approach significantly in the midst of the pandemic. They offered some variation of pass/fail rather than letter grades, with the objective of cushioning the impact on students’ GPA.

Grades 218

Grades Instructors Evaluation Attention 218

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. You could also include reminders of any tasks or assignments that need to be completed in the first week. Wilson, J.

Instructors 122

Instructors Syllabus Attention Teaching Assistants 122

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

He’s taking three online courses this semester, all of which require him to participate in online discussion forums as part of his grade. “It Many instructors see them as drudgery as well. For Valenza and a growing number of instructors, the answer is video. I rarely read the whole thing.”

Instructors 149

Instructors Discussions Course Evaluations Writing 149

eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2023

history teacher Travis Malekpour hesitated assigning his students work in the classroom that required a computer. Three years later, Malekpour, who teaches in Queens, doesn’t think twice about assigning and grading in-class work that requires a device. Before the pandemic, U.S. He knew not every student had a laptop or tablet.

Accessibility 264

Accessibility Teachers History Instructors 264

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

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? No wonder many students and faculty dislike grades! They go by names such as curving, ungrading, contract grading, and specifications grading.

Grades 122

Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

The “must-do” activities are critical to mastering grade-level content and skills. The “may-do” activities are useful for mastering grade-level content and skills but not essential. This allows students to work at their own pace and provides them with a range of activities to choose from.

Blended Learning 436

Blended Learning Feedback Universal Design Art 436

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2017

Most introductory geology professors teach students about earthquakes by assigning readings and showing diagrams of tectonic plates and fault lines to the class. But Paul Low is not most instructors. Low recently created a virtual-reality homework assignment for a geology 101 class. Low and Mills prefer. Image credit: Paul Low.

Instructors 131

Instructors Assignments Textbooks STEM 131

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A first-year seminar provides a perfect structure for this assignment, but it could be used in a variety of courses. In this first-year seminar course students get the usual instruction on learning strategies, but more importantly they complete an assignment in the seminar called a Strategy Project Assignment.

Exams 105

Exams Assignments Study Evaluation 105

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

Do your school’s students submit their school assignments by uploading PDFs or other files within a learning management system? Instructors can then use Drive and Google Docs to grade assignments and share course materials. Instructors can then use Drive and Google Docs to grade assignments and share course materials.

Feedback 109

Feedback Assignments Instructors Writing 109

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

As an instructor, I have always considered myself to be friendly and approachable. Student perceptions of their instructors’ attitude toward them has been shown to be a predictor of student motivation (Wilson J. You could also include reminders of any tasks or assignments that need to be completed in the first week. Wilson, J.

Instructors 98

Instructors Syllabus Attention Teaching Assistants 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

How do we get students to do pre-class work without giving a grade to everything? It actually requires some unlearning, and some changes in approach, to create an environment that better encourages students to complete assigned activities. You can pose a question for a future column here.

Motivation 200

Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 200

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

But the rise of alternative education providers that rely on contractors raises the question: Should these instructors be considered employees instead? In addition to teaching classes during normal business hours, both said they worked extra to prepare lessons, grade assignments, meet with students and attend marketing events.

Instructors 116

Instructors Questions Coaching English 116

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade. It helps instructors deliver cohesive learning experiences through structured content and interactivity. McGraw Hill Connect® is a complete course platform.

High School 274

High School High School Schools Instructors 274

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As part of the recent rush to comment on ChatGPT, this article is not weighing in on the ongoing ethical debates, nor is it offering a comprehensive how-to guide, but rather simply sharing one professor’s initial use of the AI tool and how it successfully accomplished the learning objectives and expectations for one course assignment.

Assignments 124

Assignments History Art Ethics 124

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

But that advice also applies to online instructors. grade 10 papers). So, if you don’t enjoy grading, get it out of the way first; then you can focus your mental energy on the more enjoyable aspects of online teaching. Monday 9:00–9:45 a.m.: Put the worst first. There are some teaching tasks we love. and others that we hate.

Instructors 104

Instructors Activities Motivation Attention 104

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. She imagines teachers might use AI in the same way to create assignments or lesson plans. “No As a student, you’re submitting your thing as a grade to be evaluated.The teachers, they know how to do it.

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

This release gives students the power to submit papers, analyze similarity reports (to check for originality), and review instructor feedback on the go. An enhanced interface for instructors offers streamlined grading on- and offline. More than ever, students use mobile devices to manage their assignments.

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Mobile Devices Instructors Feedback Math 198