Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Middle and High School Hispanic Heritage Month Activities Once students reach middle and high school, they’re ready for more complex topics and assignments. A clickable calendar assigns one historical figure to each day of Hispanic Heritage Month. Add Spanish to your daily routine.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

The idea had come from Ed Baker, district math coach at Tennessees Weakley County Schools. Baker set up an iPad on a cabinet in Gallimores classroom at Martin Middle School and hit record. Instead of throwing out questions to the whole class, now Gallimore more often calls on individuals.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Keep students engaged with a collection of fun debate topics and “would you rather” questions for high school students that they’ll enjoy talking about. 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?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Essential Question. Before starting, review the digital citizenship associated with visiting an online site (such as privacy, staying on the assigned website, and not talking to strangers). Draw a Stickman is a web-based tool or app that turns a simple drawing into a story by asking questions of the creator. Teacher Preparation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Build a culture of curiosity and encourage questioning An environment that encourages curiosity and allows students to ask questions and explore concepts they’re genuinely interested in can significantly enhance engagement.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

I point to each station’s location and review the assigned seating chart. Note: I don’t usually assign seats at the independent teacher-led station because that is where I will be.) Because students do not need to get out any materials when they transition, I set the transition timer to 20 seconds. What is your favorite movie?

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. Growing up, once we left school at the end of the day, it was over. Not only did students complete the assignments, but they were excited about it.

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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. Whether you like it or not, we have a new partner in the classroom.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

As a middle school Spanish teacher, my #1 goal is to have my students fall in love with learning a language the way I did in middle school. Cooperative activities: Question game. Some teachers use Tic Tac Toe sheets for weekly homework assignments. Grammar games. Fly Swatter! Communication activity.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

The “Bored Board” can help give students options and eliminate the question, “ I’m done, now what? Students can then choose which activities to complete in order to meet the assigned requirements. Wrong Answers Only: Have students come up with the best wrong answers to a question.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Just as in classrooms nationwide, Montana’s teachers place an intense focus on supporting literacy in elementary school instruction. As a veteran teacher of 17 years who has taught in both elementary and middle school classrooms, I have found that there are a number of powerful edtech tools available to support student literacy.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2015

For many tweens heading into middle school, the transition from elementary school won’t be marked only by new teachers, class schedules and locker assignments but also by a gleaming new phone. Deciding whether a middle schooler is ready to take on mobile phone responsibility is a personal decision for each family.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. Here’s how to get through your first school year.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Teachers who sat down and let middle schoolers teach them. Educators from around the region headed to Creekside Middle School in Patterson on Monday for a Google Leadership Symposium. They’re not just entertainment,” said Agustin Arreola, assistant principal at Dutcher Middle School in Turlock.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Bored Board can help give students options and eliminate the question, I’m done, now what? Students can then choose which activities to complete in order to meet the assigned requirements. Wrong Answers Only: Have students come up with the best wrong answers to a question.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

The answer can be found in a small but mighty after-school and summer program that sets high expectations to inspire young people to explore technology career pathways and become leaders committed to improving their communities. Every day we get closer to answering those questions.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In these preteen years, I never understood why my parents questioned how much time I spent on my phone. I was just texting my friends, sending memes, sharing homework answers, and opening up about school crushes. I got my first iPhone on my 11th birthday. Remote learning at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic only made things worse.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These forms of feedback often focus on assignments and homework prior to college, where feedback becomes scarce. In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Educators can now more easily customize assessments according to reading level, question type, Blooms Taxonomy, and more ensuring optimal learning experiences for students. Educators can also review and tailor the questions and, once ready, export those questions into a variety of formats.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Leading school science supplier Carolina Biological launched three new sets of K-8 digital resources for remote teaching this fall: Smithsonian Science for the Classroom @HOME, Smithsonian Science and Technology Concepts Middle School@HOME , and Building Blocks of Science 3D@HOME. The new digital @HOME and Get Ready!

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

Randomized questions. To support academic integrity, randomized questions ensure each student is assigned unique problems to work on. A new drag-and-drop question type that develops students’ critical thinking skills by helping them build evidence and concepts into models. 

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

For a literature assignment, I have students design a Canva infographic analyzing a novels themes. Quiz allows educators to embed questions directly into videos, turning passive watching into active engagement. For example, in a middle school science class, I rely on the Video Quiz feature to assess understanding of the water cycle.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Eleven years later, as I walk through the halls in a middle school/high school setting, I see students sitting on a tile floor crowded around a device trying to type, communicate, take videos, and record their voices with background noise and distractions often interrupting their progress.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The project management software Paymo, which is free for schools, can alleviate each of these challenges. Paymo provides a centralized workspace where teacher teams clarify roles within their group, assign tasks to individuals, and track progress over time. Here’s how it works: a user enters a question they want the group to consider.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

When parents question things like assignments, or the practice of teaching that they see through their lenses, they may not be aware of the overall state of the class, or the range of abilities, disabilities, interests and considerations that go into the planning and teaching.” A brain experiencing trauma learns nothing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. Students are the problem.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2018

In his recent edWebinar , Shannon Holden, assistant principal at Republic Middle School in Missouri, described how teachers can use WhatsApp and Edulastic for educational purposes. Start a group with just you in it to type messages and create assignments to send out later, or access those assignments in later years.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2017

But starting today, Classroom makes it a lot easier for teachers to assign work to individual students and groups based on their unique needs. As they’re creating an assignment, post, or question, teachers can choose whether to share it with the entire class or only with a subset of students.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

Erin Haley, middle school teacher at The Bayshore School in Daly City, Calif.: “YES However, as I smile answering this question, I recall the parents who’ve asked for my address to jokingly drop their kid off at my front door. Noppinger, eighth grade math teacher at Dumbarton Middle School in Towson, Md.: “I

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. I had questions and I wanted to know more. Most of the oldest students of this generation are now in middle school. If not, how can we find out?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 14, 2020

Chris Landry, an eighth-grade science teacher at Memorial Middle School , said he’s been able to continue teaching students amid the closures through videos and has even provided them with fun activities to do at home. start the virtual session by answering questions when students arrive. What made it easier? SentAndEnt.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Take, for example, the distance learning plan created by Chaffey Joint Union High School District in California, which says that schoolwork completed by students through the end of the year can only preserve and improve grades, but not lower them. Many teachers watched their students brush off assignments and disappear from class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination. Middle school is awful. meant it as a casual greeting rather than a true question of concern about her well-being. “I I would stop to start saying how I am.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2022

Shea Smith starts the middle-school digital media class he teaches with a ritual: He asks his students to open up their Chromebooks and answer a simple question, “How are you feeling today?” Even though a question like ‘how are you doing?’

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