Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

Meanwhile, the schools in my zone — the ones we were assigned to — have lower ratings, higher suspension rates, under-resourced classrooms and a student body that looks just like us. They’re policies, they’re history and they’re hurting kids. Black and Latinx. Working-class. Suddenly, it hit me: This wasn’t just happening to my son.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Gamification Learning Motivation Learning Styles 105

Teach Hub

JUNE 27, 2025

Talk about how famous people like Albert Einstein, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Lennon all had learning disabilities but overcame them with hard work and dedication and still made history. Break Down Complex Tasks Big assignments can feel overwhelming, especially for students who are already behind. Instead, break things down.

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Teach Hub

MAY 22, 2025

Or for history, let them build a timeline in the form of a comic strip. This really works with students who think in pictures or have a harder time connecting with more traditional assignments. It stops feeling like just another assignment and starts feeling like a way to speak up and be heard.

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Art Students Assignments History 56

k12 Prospects

JUNE 13, 2025

Key Factors Schools Consider When Selecting Vendors Proven Track Record and Experience Schools prefer vendors with a history of success in the education sector. Strategy: Assign dedicated account managers to school districts to assist with onboarding and implementation.

Schools 52

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

When wondering how to engage my students as readers, I started by reflecting on my own reading history and what initially got me excited about the printed word. Every single day we seem to move closer to a society that simply doesn’t read. The first book series I remember reading was in fourth and fifth grade.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

Assign different actions in the story specific sounds and have students play their instruments when those actions occur. Assign each note a number value and show students how to clap or snap the different notes. Assign a color to each note and display the colors on a slide so students can follow along and play the song successfully.

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Activities Elementary School Elementary School Students 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Give them a safe and structured place to let their arguments fly when you assign these persuasive writing prompts. 10 Informative 8th Grade Writing Prompts When you assign informative writing prompts to your 8th grade class, you’re letting them be the instructors! What was the most important event in American history?

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k12

JUNE 24, 2025

History has been my favorite this year because I’ve learned about the economy and how it’s regulated. They also provide a detailed rubric for how work will be graded on each assignment, which is super helpful in maintaining the quality of work I need for the grade I want. My Teachers & Classmates Do you have a favorite subject?

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k12

JUNE 10, 2025

For starters, my online school allows me to have flexibility in my class and assignment schedule. So, if it’s a Tuesday or Thursday, I have an 8:15 AM World History class. After English III, I start my world history reading. Then I eat lunch and finish the world history lesson. It is hard to list all the things.

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History English Schools Students 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

You can also celebrate this important month by showcasing Hispanic history, culture, and the Spanish language in your curriculum, no matter what class you teach. Frida Kahlo Door Decor Set – Spanish by SraDavilaMadwid Subjects: Art History, Spanish Make Frida Kahlo and her work the focus of your classroom before you even open the door.

Activities 52

Activities Culture English Language 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school. Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. How much freedom should teenagers have?

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k12

JUNE 17, 2025

At this different online school, I was met with confusion and an overwhelming amount of assignments mixed with an underwhelming amount of support. History, Chemistry, Geometry, Public Speaking, Graphic Illustration, and Finance. I started a different online school that wasn’t with K12, because I figured, what’s the difference?

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Schools Online Learning Grades Students 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Should students be allowed to use AI on their homework assignments? Should high schools give up one year of history in favor of a financial literacy class? Use topics from your own subject matter in debates, such as history (Should the United States have entered World War II sooner?), Do online friends count as real friends?

High School 52

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2021

Infobase, the award-winning provider of the Infobase Media Cloud and the Infobase Learning Cloud, announced the launch of Issues & Controversies in History. and world history over the past 5,000 years.”. “We and world history over the past 5,000 years.”. The new Issues & Controversies in History does just that.

History 216

History Distance Learning Assignments Accessibility 216

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. 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? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

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Assignments Grades History Ethics 195

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2023

Assigned Seats at Student-Led Stations As a teacher, I always had seating charts for whole-group instruction. But for those classes that needed extra structure during station rotation, I found assigning seats and strategically seating students in groups was equally important.

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Assignments Coaching Blended Learning Learning 248

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 205

eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions provider for K-12 education, today announced the release of its new print and digital high school history series, US History Interactive ©2022 and World History Interactive ©2022 , that promotes a deeper investigation of the past and connects history to the present.

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History Social Studies Critical Thinking Distance Learning 190

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As teachers and professors look for ways to guard against the use of AI to cheat on homework, many have started asking students to share the history of their online documents to check for signs that a bot did the writing. Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error.

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Instructors History English Writing 205

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 17, 2020

It also isn’t clear to me how much work their teachers will assign during this school closure. ” To my surprise, both of my kids were excited about the prospect of doing “school” with my husband (a high school history teacher) and me. Even though they are not going to school, I want them to continue learning.

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Blended Learning Coaching History Assignments 523

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?

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Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 166

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. When teachers provide students with the rubric at the start of any assignment or task that will be assessed, the rubric serves as a roadmap. How does using rubrics benefit students?

Fairness 545

Fairness Assignments Feedback Language 545

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What was the point of living through history if you didn’t record it? Our students can share their thoughts, observations, and opinions about history and create primary sources along the way. A student-created primary source for today’s history can be as simple as: Reflecting on current events in a Google doc journal.

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History Students Writing Instructors 199

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 18, 2022

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, former teacher and now education consultant, has suggestions for apps to help the history class: Essential Tech Tools for the History Class. As a history teacher, I used the summertime to experiment and attend online professional development technology sessions and tech camps.

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History Assignments Feedback Instructors 158

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This routine can be used to ask students to explore their own identity, but I can also imagine using this activity to encourage critical thinking about characters in novels or important figures from history. Thinking Routine: Layers. literature, visual art, performance art). Thinking Routine: Parts, People, Interactions.

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Art English Critical Thinking History 520

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We all have unique interests, learning preferences, histories and life experiences, family dynamics, strengths, and weaknesses. Do they feel the work assigned is interesting, engaging, and relevant? They are navigating the experiences, assignments, routines, and workflows that we are assigning and using. This is not new.

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Learning Blended Learning Assignments Feedback 544

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 26, 2015

Teachers can easily differentiate instruction assigning articles written at a range Lexile levels to different groups of students within a single class. Once teachers create an account and set up their classes, they can assign articles and collect student data. Students can add comments to the articles they’ve been assigned.

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Reading Assignments Art History 374

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Barriers to Effective Transfer and Application of Learning Assigning the same task to all students without offering any choices can significantly hinder the effective transfer and application of learning. Can you suggest creative assignments for grade students to express their learning about ?

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History Physical Education Art Essay 382

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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Instructors Assignments Writing History 148

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

Their approach contrasts with classic reading comprehension questions, which students typically respond to after completing a reading assignment. Instead, this strategy presents students with an open-ended, debatable, or controversial statement to consider before they begin the reading.

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Activities Reading Learning Discussions 546

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

And while it is just the latest in a seven decades-old history of AI and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) that can generate content like text, images, music, etc., In academic settings, ChatGPT can be used to produce written essays, reports, and responses when supplied with the assignment prompt.

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Assignments History Art Ethics 124

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. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. newsletters.

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Accessibility Teachers History Instructors 262

eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2022

History teacher of 17 years, I often reflect on my instructional practice in an effort to find new ways to improve. As I recently reviewed some of the videos I have of own instructional practice, I was struck by the massive amounts of paper-based assignments being handed out and collected. As an inner-city U.S.

History 256

History Social Studies STEM Assignments 256

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As part of the teachers’ advisory group for America250 and as one of the fellows in the America 250 NC Freedom Fellows’ inaugural cohort, I got incredible tools and resources that help students understand our state’s unique and diverse history and the important role it played in the American Revolution. From lessons focused on the U.S.

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Students History Essay High School 336

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

For example, one of our high schoolers, James, isn’t doing his assignments in World History class. Instead of focusing on World War II, she has him research the history of Air Jordan shoes. The teacher knows he’s into basketball, so she reroutes him with differentiated learning.

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Teaching English Students History 294

eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

I would recommend listening to podcast episodes before assigning them to make sure they’re age-appropriate.) Another point of entry for students is learning about the experiences of their peers, so when I taught eighth grade, I always assigned The Outsiders. This novel by S.

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Reading Assignments English Math 319