Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 2, 2018

When I work with elementary teachers, one of the biggest challenges they face is the wide range of reading skills in their classrooms. A first-grade class may have students who are struggling to decode while other students are reading at a third-grade level. ElemBookClubTemplate.

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Coaching English Participation Assignments 402

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.

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 199

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

As a parent, I marvel at the amount of work my own children–2nd and 4th grade–bring home on a weekly basis. I want the 4+ hours they have after school to be dedicated to exploring other interests–sports, instruments, playing in the backyard, building random art projects out of old boxes, and reading. hours every other day.

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Assignments Motivation Reading High School 420

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At

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Achievement Math Reading Education 258

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. There is a notable drop off in the reading and conversations.In

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. Instead of creating readers, this approach can alienate students who struggle to access books at a particular reading level or do not care for the genre of the books on their class reading list. Here is the template you can copy: bit.ly/HSbookclub.

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Coaching Motivation Reading Assignments 408

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 18, 2021

A third-grade teacher might present students with six words, whereas a tenth-grade teacher might present 15-20 words. The categories students create and the labels they assign to each category provide insight into their thinking. If you are working with younger learners, you may want to keep your pile of words smaller.

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Blended Learning Online Learning Discussions Grades 546

Catlin Tucker

JULY 9, 2020

I cannot say I am surprised given the lack of clarity about expectations for participation online, the “no harm” grading policies adopted by many districts during school closures, and issues around equity and access. The more creative the assignments, the more likely students are to lean into the learning.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Students 546

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. The most common homework given to students in most classes is reading.

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Motivation Reading Instructors Assignments 196

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When I volunteer in my children’s elementary classrooms (1st and 3rd grade), I am struck by how frequently the teacher finds time to work directly with small groups of students to offer additional support, review concepts, assess understanding, and practice skills. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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Blended Learning Middle School Middle School STEM 420

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You can create quizzes for the books your students are reading and assign collections to your students. Vooks : Vooks is a wonderful resource for the PK-2 grade teacher. It provides animated stories that are read aloud to students. They get to practice their reading skills, but writing skills as well.

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Quizzes 339

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 16, 2024

How do assignments made by online professionals get good scores? Here are tips to make your assignment look professional, from the Ask a Tech Teacher international team: Top Tips And Tricks To Make Your Assignment Look Professional Introduction One of the most important aspects of an assignment is how you present your report.

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Assignments Plagiarism Essay Attention 158

eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Developed to address the decades-long gap in reading proficiency across the nation, Lexia PowerUp Literacy is designed to enhance core English language arts instruction for struggling readers in grades 6-12. The study focused on 122 sixth-grade students enrolled in six supplemental reading classes at two district middle schools.

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English Reading Blended Learning Distance Learning 236

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2018

For the last two years, I have published several blogs detailing my journey away from traditional grading and assessment practices. I do not believe grades should happen to students. goals they have for the grading period and describe their action plan for achieving these goals. The purpose of this shift was three-fold.

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Students Grades Achievement Evaluation 420

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the time it takes to score and give feedback on student work deterring many writing teachers from assigning lengthier writing tasks, and with the long turnaround time most students wait to receive grades and feedback, there is significant timesaving and learning potential in an AI helping grade student work.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 175

eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

The Navigator is a full-color planner packed with STEAM powered resource pages to propel critical thinking of 5th – 12th grade students. Four preprinted core subjects and four blank subjects within the weekly grid provides abundant space to list daily tasks, assignments, and projects.

Grades 210

Grades Critical Thinking Students Motivation 210

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 18, 2015

Unfortunately, many teachers spend the first day of school reading their syllabus to their students and explaining all of the classroom norms and rules. Each group is assigned a different color icon (rocket, bicycle, unicorn). My students are in 9th and 10th grade, so it’s been a while since anyone read them a picture book.

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Syllabus Learning Styles Schools Quizzes 420

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 18, 2016

If we could describe our perfect teaching assignment, what would it be? This year as I stared at the form and asked myself, what is your perfect teaching assignment? I’ve been teaching 9th and 10th grade English at Windsor High School for the last 13 years. Who would we enjoy working with?

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Teaching English Blended Learning Assignments 414

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.

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Grades Exams Feedback Testing 194

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Key points: ChatGPT is here to stay, and it’s wise to now consider it a part of learning In fact, every assignment moving forward must be graded with ChatGPT in mind See related article: How educators can navigate AI-driven plagiarism You may have heard of ChatGPT. How are teachers supposed to grade these efforts?

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Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 337

eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

While novels are engrossing for some students, teachers who use a variety of texts and media sources engage more students and address a broader range of topics and reading standards. These connections make students more interested in the stories they read, enhancing their overall classroom engagement. This novel by S.

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Reading Assignments English Math 325

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

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A learning log or ongoing learning blog is a strategy you can use to encourage your students to spend time thinking about a particular assignment. What did they learn as a result of working on this assignment? Then I had a moment in class at the end of a long week when I felt like I did not have a good read on the room.

Learning 420

Learning Assignments Students Knowledge 420

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Instead of assigning all students a single subject or issue to focus on for their argument, you can provide a list of topics and encourage students to select one of interest. Students can read the descriptions to understand why they are receiving a particular score. Example: Craft a Strong Argument.

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Blended Learning Essay Feedback Writing 520

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2019

Low reading ability is a major contributor to learning inequality in our schools. An estimated 26 million students have learning differences, including tens of thousands of students with dyslexia, a neurological condition that affects reading and related language-based processing skills. Making reading more enjoyable for all.

Learning 279

Learning Reading Assignments Students 279

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

For teachers using StudySync in combination with Google Classroom, I’ve described three strategies that educators can use to capitalize on the activities in the StudySync First Read lesson plans to engage students in online discussions, collaborative research projects, and online vocabulary review. #1 You can check them out here.

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Collaborative Research Students Knowledge Assignments 370

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2021

After reading Catlin Tucker’s blog post, 5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction , I was inspired to reflect on and revise a mini-unit I designed focusing on the short film Alike by Daniel Martinez Lara and Rafa Cano Méndez. I love reimagining a unit or lesson after I have taught it a few times.

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Blended Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Discussions 396

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Like many AI-related projects, the idea started as a way to cut the cost of hiring humans.

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Fairness Testing Grades Essay 189

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. Maybe the student skipped class or doesn’t have all the material handed out with the assignment. The assignment becomes a one-dimensional chore underpinned by a constant anxiety of “I don’t know if this is what my teacher wants.”

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 119

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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Assignments Instructors Writing History 148

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.

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Teaching English Feedback Assignments 385

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. ESL students won’t be able to succeed at school or college if they can’t use the language well enough: Their grades and overall subject knowledge will suffer.

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Writing Skills Essay Language 286

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As the back-to-school season unfolded in New York, the city’s teachers set up their classrooms how they usually do: by putting up posters, reading through curriculums, sharpening pencils, and, for roughly a decade , charging Chromebooks. It was the beginning of sixth grade, braces, and the descent into the digital world. newsletters.

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Teachers Schools History Reading 300

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 28, 2020

I want students to understand that their grades are a reflection of their skills, and they are capable of improving those skills at any time. I want students to complete assignments because they are meaningful, interesting, and rewarding, not because they are worth points. First, I was not going to take grading home anymore.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Communication 343

eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2025

Established in 2005, Agora Cyber Charter School is an online public school for Pennsylvania students in kindergarten through 12th grade that is accredited by the Middle States Association. This is especially felt in the 5 th grade science and math classes I teach. Gizmo is an interactive STEM learning experience for grades 3-12.

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Teachers Learning Science STEM 311

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

CLEVELAND – March 14, 2022 – In response to educators’ need for more digital content to engage students, OverDrive Education now offers popular digital comic books to schools around the world via the Sora student reading app. Sora is the leading student reading app available in more than 53,000 schools worldwide.

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Reading Schools Grades Middle School 286

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

It has been sobering to see, through their eyes, how unclear our assignments can sometimes be. Maybe the student skipped class or doesn’t have all the material handed out with the assignment. The assignment becomes a one-dimensional chore underpinned by a constant anxiety of “I don’t know if this is what my teacher wants.”

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 111