eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time. Kendall Hunt will offer a customized version of OpenSciEd’s high-quality middle school science instructional materials in a dynamic format through Kiddom’s comprehensive digital curriculum platform.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. We’re seeing more and more middle school students taking. 00:01:39 Speaker 1 But then why is computer science?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I implemented writing reflections to help students recall their feedback from prior assignments and collaborated with a colleague to develop a teacher guided peer review system, which eventually yielded an app called Floop that made the peer review data visible and simpler to manage. She also found the work of U.K.-based

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Because schools and teachers are barred from asking students to submit assignments physically, Zeng instead received photos of drawings sent by parents. Xiong Fanyan, who oversees instructional affairs at a middle school in Beijing, has recorded a short tutorial video and uploaded it to Tencent Video for his students to watch.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. - Jill Hill “It was just a great chance to learn more about artificial intelligence and machine learning and how to encourage K-12 teachers to use more AI tools in their classrooms,” said Hill, the technology integration specialist at her middle school. They need to know how to take a problem apart and figure out a solution together.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

It also includes certified teachers who are filling positions outside their subject of expertise — like a history teacher assigned to a math class. Particularly for STEM courses, Nguyen says it’s important to have an instructor who has not just the pedagogical knowledge but also the content knowledge to effectively teach the class.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2023

If you’re EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo, who’s currently in grad school, you’ve recently experienced all three of these scenarios. And why do teachers and professors continue to assign it? The first question I'm gonna answer is the second one, which is, why do people assign group work? I taught middle school.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of these tasks might include replying to parent emails without emotional interference, creating differentiated assignments with ease and expertise, and creating interactive lesson components and higher order questions that probe thinking patterns. The most time consuming or emotionally taxing items can be processed via prompts.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The district was the first in the state to open STEM Academies as part of their general public-school program. At the middle school level, they function as a school within a school. The high school academies, which students apply for based on interest, operate more like universities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

The following year, it created GitHub Classroom, which allows teachers to distribute and review assignments. That spurred GitHub to launch earlier this year a teacher-training program, Campus Advisors , to support instructors in their courses. One of the biggest wins I see is that you can get students to collaborate on projects.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Goal : To write a recommendation letter for a student Prompt: Write a recommendation letter for a teacher who graduated with a middle school teaching certification who engages students, demonstrates effective classroom management, and possesses strong professionalism.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. To get started, what are some of the channels that currently exist, if any, for students to interact with their faculty or instructors around teaching and curriculum? So, [the instructor] was able to see just about everything we did. We are almost out of time.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

When she became a composition teacher in the late 1980s, she never used or assigned Strunk and White for “a lot of reasons,” including that she thought it was “far too prescriptive.” She believed, and still believes, that the most important thing writing instructors do is prepare students to enter the “national or social conversation.”

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Goal : To write a recommendation letter for a student Prompt: Write a recommendation letter for a teacher who graduated with a middle school teaching certification who engages students, demonstrates effective classroom management, and possesses strong professionalism.

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Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Learning Assistantships in Community Colleges Learning assistants (LAs) are undergraduate students who engage as classroom support for faculty instructors in college courses (Ellerbrock et al., While the other instructor mostly focused on breaking the subject up in a simplified way. The Journal of Higher Education, 82 (1), 5491.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

Freemium — FreshGrade —Written by James , a Middle School teacher in British Columbia, Canada. EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented FreshGrade? At the middle school level, many of my students have wifi enabled personal smartphone devices and laptops.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

As an instructor of teacher education, I pitched a FYS related to teaching, but also hoping to engage students who weren’t necessarily interested in becoming a certified teacher. A hugely present issue when I proposed the course in spring of 2022 was the resurgence of book bans occurring in schools and libraries around the country.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

New models of learning and teaching can be powerful “first-mover” differentiators in competitive independent school markets. In addition to existing IT support, technology integration staff, or librarians/media specialists, some schools have student technology teams that are on call for assistance when needed.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

How to Apply It in Online Classrooms Point Systems: Reward points for punctuality, participation, completing assignments early, or collaborating well in group projects. Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. Pro Tip Add a reflection component.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

So some instructors are trying a different approach to guard against AI cheating — one that borrows a page out of criminal investigations. If you've ever taught middle school writing, which I have, or if you taught early high school writing, their writing does not change that much in eight months. Yes, it gets better.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

CEO Lindsey Tropf says the company has plans to expand beyond its middle-school ecology content, and is pitching for a $3 million seed fund to do so. think they’ve come up with a solution—a text analysis tool that provides automated feedback on a learner’s notes and then aggregates that data for instructors. FlashGrade, a D.C.-based

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph essays. He contends that the five-paragraph essay may be dead in the literal sense because instructors of college composition classes don’t assign it, but he believes its structure is still around. “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The parts—assignments, resources, etc—are all broken up,” she says. 3: Can the instructor and student(s) talk to and communicate with each other easily? Should students be able to send assignments directly to an educator or professor through the platform? We just switched to Whipple Hill/Blackbaud , which everyone hates!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

–Tiago Costa, Cloud & AI Architect, Microsoft; Pearson Video Lesson Instructor In the two years since GenAI was unleashed, K-12 leaders have ridden the wave of experimentation and uncertainty about the role this transformative technology should have in classrooms and districts.

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Cal Matters

MAY 20, 2025

Some earned master’s degrees in their home countries, while others never finished middle school. Hernandez now volunteers in the beginner levels of ESL as a peer instructor. She said her most important takeaway from these courses is the family made at school.

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