Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Assigned seats in a grid pattern aren’t your only option for an engaging classroom setup anymore! Pros: These non-traditional desk arrangements encourage students to be more creative, think analytically, and have more fun at school. There are endless possibilities for seating layouts in your classroom, and each has its own benefits.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

SAN MARCOS, Texas — As a digital media course got underway on a recent Wednesday at Texas State University, a trickle of students took their seats in one of the largest lecture theaters on campus. My goal in flying down to Texas State was to find out, what do college classes look and feel like now—especially in large lectures like this one?

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

Teachers get super excited about integrating technology or want details about a project, assignment, or routine I do with my own kids. When they find out that my school is on a 90-minute block schedule, they sigh and tell me that they just don’t have that kind of time with kids. The big hurdle is time. into your shorter periods?

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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!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Rather than watch a lecture in class and complete homework at home, students would watch a video lecture at home and do the “homework” in class. Students are still learning via direct instruction, still having to work outside of school on their own time, and still receiving virtually the same pedagogy. Question everything.

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Lecturing Learning Assignments Grades 279

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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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

I have always found my work designing lessons–first for high school students and now my graduate students–to be mentally stimulating and cognitively challenging. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. When this surfaced in my research, I was not surprised.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

Classically, the transfer of information has occurred in class via lecture and practice has been assigned for homework. Overloading students with homework after a long day of school. The flipped classroom m odel shifts the transfer of information online and moves practice and application into the classroom.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. 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. Yes, that’s it.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 119

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

I’ve faced myriad challenges in the last 8 months getting a new program at my school off of the ground. I’ve stood in front of a school board that accused me of designing a program aimed at skimming the best and brightest students off of the top, despite the diversity of the students enrolled. School, we do not have a seating chart.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Key points: When students are engaged, they come to school How video coaching inspires teacher self-reflection i I’m a first-year teacher. Chronic absenteeism continues to be a major problem in schools across the nation. No student should feel afraid to go to school. And when students are engaged, they come to school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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Lecturing Disabilities Learning Assignments 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. Numerous online resources exist where you can find lecture notes, study guides, and other helpful materials.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. 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. Yes, that’s it.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Probably the ones that have already seen success in a number of schools and districts across the country. Have you ever downloaded an online lecture from iTunes? It has a lot of resources for students, including books, videos, lectures, flashcards, and other materials. But which ones have the most potential for the New Year?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Teachers and school-based mental health practitioners may wish to use Florence as a whole-group weekly discussion in navigating adult relationships. You can assign activities or group projects to dig deep into important financial topics, or you can lead class discussions or give lectures on info vital to financial success and stability.

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Mobile Devices Lecturing Social Studies Students 279

eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Students can then choose which activities to complete in order to meet the assigned requirements. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting! Learning Menus: Provide students with a learning menu filled with intellectually rich activities.

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Critical Thinking Middle School Middle School Lecturing 308

eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

During the Spring 2022 semester, Smith started most mornings with 30 high school students who were enrolled in CIS 194 Cloud Foundations, a course delivered by ASU. Carey School of Business , along with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the National Education Equity Lab. Students nationwide participate in the ASU course.

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Quizzes Lecturing High School High School 246

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Key points: Students who feel supported feel empowered to learn and achieve 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation Expanded learning can improve student well-being For more on student achievement, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they dont.

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Failure Math Achievement Beliefs 305

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 216

eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Key points: Chronic absenteeism leads to much higher dropout rates 5 ways school districts can create successful community partnerships Data gaps negatively impact academic progress and attendance For more on chronic absenteeism, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub The biggest problem in education is that kids arent showing up to school.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic. My own experience teaching at The New School, a small Manhattan college, supports this style of instruction.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

As schools closed their doors, remote learning became the primary mode of instruction, accelerating edtech’s role in classrooms. Digital tools, once mainly supplementary for many schools, became essential for delivering lessons, facilitating communication, and maintaining student engagement.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models. Its conclusion?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

High-quality teachers, textbooks, and research are now accessible to rural schools. Mobiliya Edvelop, a digital classroom platform , is delivering remote lectures to rural schools in some corners of the world — providing tablets that help rural students tap into lessons taught in urban areas.

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Textbooks Lecturing Schools Blended Learning 151

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Yet, even after three years in this role at my current school, there are a handful of teachers who are still hesitant to allow students to use devices and the powerful apps and resources they contain. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!” This rang true with me.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Students can then choose which activities to complete in order to meet the assigned requirements. Notes Scavenger Hunt: Turn your next lecture into something interactive and exciting! Learning Menus: Provide students with a learning menu filled with intellectually rich activities.

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Students Critical Thinking Lecturing Culture 282

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As classes went fully online, it has become incredibly difficult for school IT administrators and teachers to keep track of all the elements of compliance. This challenge was further worsened by the fact that it also befalls schools to provide a sense of clarity and hope in the time of great distress for their students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Impressed by the learning environment at Summit Public Schools, Facebook said Thursday that the social network teamed up with the charter school network to revamp an online education tool. Eventually, the social network plans to make the software available for free to all schools in the United States.

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Education Lecturing Motivation Feedback 274

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible. This means units are always updated and ready to serve.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 314

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2023

In this article, discover how high school education is shifting towards personalized learning. The Future of High School Education: Navigating the Shift to Personalized Learning High school – a time of excitement, curiosity, exploration and growth. Technology advances and education evolves at an unprecedented pace.

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High School High School Learning Styles Schools 179

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 276

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

These days students can have tools like Google’s NotebookLM turn their lecture notes into a podcast , where sunny-sounding AI bots banter and riff on key points. It all adds new challenges to schools and colleges as they attempt to set boundaries and policies for AI use in their classrooms.

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Study Lecturing Instructors Students 214

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Apple’s iPod had only recently come out, and Duke became one of the first to experiment with putting out free lectures online that people could listen to on these digital music players. EdSurge: Why is there so much old-fashioned lecturing going on at colleges, if research shows that mixing in more active techniques works better?

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Activities Lecturing Exams Active Learning 216

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2017

It’s no secret that 21st century teachers and school administrators are under enormous pressure to differentiate instruction to enhance learning for all students, regardless of ability or their innate interest in the material. Enter classroom learning centers.

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