eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has released a new guide to help educators navigate the many ways AI can be used in teaching and learning. OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, has released a new guide to help educators navigate the many ways AI can be used in teaching and learning. You can take these ideas and make them your own.”

Teaching 278

Teaching Quizzes Exams English 278

Catlin Tucker

JULY 23, 2024

.” I have the privilege of working with thousands of educators every year who are expanding their teaching toolboxes to include blended learning models , UDL , and student-led instructional strategies. Every year, I field hundreds of questions from the educators I work with and people who read my blog or listen to my podcast.

Coaching 221

Coaching Questions Blended Learning Feedback 221

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?

Assignments 167

Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 167

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

During our conversation, we explored aspects of the teaching profession that are time-consuming and create work-life imbalance. ” I disagree, especially when it comes to assignments designed to provide students with opportunities to review concepts and practice specific skills. Each student completes the assignment.

Teachers 544

Teachers Motivation Assignments Students 544

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable. But complaining about students isn’t the answer, Cohn and other teaching experts say. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments.

Instructors 191

Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 191

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

Even though teaching online may feel like a different animal than teaching face-to-face, there are many similarities in terms of the building blocks of a lesson. Is there instruction or modeling students need to navigate a task or assignment? The tools teachers use to engage students online are indeed different.

Distance Learning 546

Distance Learning Assignments Coaching Activities 546

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. But there are forces that get in the way. That will stop,” McEnerney said.

Assignments 199

Assignments Essay History Social Studies 199

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This trend begs the question: How can we encourage our students to read both inside and outside the classroom? Booklist Assignment. The Booklist Assignment is designed to help students select a book they’ll enjoy. Reading and Response Assignment. Cultivating a culture of reading doesn’t happen overnight.

Culture 498

Culture Reading Assignments Blended Learning 498

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

One in five educators believe that AI is the way of the future and both teachers and students will need to embrace it to succeed, while 17 percent stated that AI can be as valuable as textbooks to teach students concepts. How could or should the math teachers role change as a result of student AI use?

Math 257

Math Participation Feedback High School 257

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

With better feedback mechanisms and more support, teachers could adjust their lesson plans, teach in near-real time, and deliver the help when it’s needed – without slowing down or backtracking the entire class to help the small group of students struggling with that day’s lesson.

Teaching 325

Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 325

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As I’ve said in previous blog posts, teaching in a concurrent classroom is the most challenging teaching assignment I can imagine. Despite their best efforts, teachers feel like they cannot be successful in teaching and reaching all students. What questions or suggestions do they have? What’s working?

Evaluation 546

Evaluation Feedback Writing Assignments 546

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

A recent Google blog post outlines how four different school districts are leveraging Google AI tools, like Gemini and NotebookLM, for innovative teaching and learning. Students also use Gemini for real-time academic help, such as asking follow-up questions and details about a particular topic.

Education 227

Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 227

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. The benefit of assigning video instruction for homework is that students can control the time, place, and pace of the learning experience when they watch the video at home.

Blended Learning 465

Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 465

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 Evaluation 545

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. It seems as if a quick scan of one of the assigned pages is the best effort.

Instructors 95

Instructors Assignments Participation Students 95

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I could not answer a single question about the content of what I read. In their new book, Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making , my friend, Jay McTighe , and his co-author, Harvey Silver , write about an active reading strategy that encourages students to engage with texts before, during, and after reading.

Activities 546

Activities Reading Learning Discussions 546

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. As the lessons progressed, we explored various uses of KIBO in the classroom.

Teaching 278

Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 278

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

If you are interested in teaching students how to create sketchnotes, you should check out Sylvia Duckworth’s book titled How to Sketchnote: A Step-by-Step Manual for Teachers and Students. 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.

Learning 420

Learning Assignments Students Knowledge 420

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Dedicating class time to asking a few simple questions can make a big difference in the way students show up in a class. Teaching online has made building community even more challenging, so I suggest starting each class with a check-in activity or a fun question. The questioner’s job is to listen ( really listen).

Beliefs 492

Beliefs Discussions Assignments Blended Learning 492

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

I fear schools will revert to what is comfortable and what aligns with existing mental models instead of questioning the status quo, taking inventory of the lessons learned this year, and paving a new path forward. Much of that time has been focused on how to teach in online or blended learning environments. Stagnation or Progress.

Mental Models 541

Mental Models Education Hybrid Learning Blended Learning 541

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Others are teaching entirely online. And a growing number of teachers who began the year online are now shifting to the concurrent classroom where they are juggling the demands of teaching students both in class and online simultaneously. The fourth slide presents opportunities for students to practice.

Learning 546

Learning Assignments Universal Design Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?” Some teachers do not assign homework. Despite these potential pitfalls, flipped instruction retains its value even when videos are not assigned for homework. This encourages brainstorming and prediction.

Lecturing 431

Lecturing Knowledge Assignments Writing 431

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Do they feel the work assigned is interesting, engaging, and relevant? Teachers can learn so much from their students if they ask the right questions. They are navigating the experiences, assignments, routines, and workflows that we are assigning and using. What has been your favorite activity, assignment, or routine?

Learning 544

Learning Blended Learning Assignments Feedback 544

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

.” This reasoning leaves teachers with piles of work to grade, but I wonder how much of that time spent assigning points to student work results in improved student performance. I fell into this trap at the start of my teaching career. By the end of the semester, I had over a hundred assignments in my grade book.

Grades 420

Grades Feedback Assignments Motivation 420

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up.

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I also coach teachers who teach traditional 50-minute classes and they have a four station two-day rotation. When a formal assignment is due, I use my teacher-led station to have individual grade conversations with my students. Before we end our conversation, I turn to them and ask, “Do you have any questions?”

Grades 420

Grades Blended Learning Essay Feedback 420

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment.

Writing 328

Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Teachers juggling the concurrent classroom with some students physically attending class and others joining remotely via video conferencing are trying to balance the demands of teaching in two learning landscapes simultaneously. Teaching is a challenging profession on the best of days.

Blended Learning 546

Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2021

Students who generally struggle to read at grade level could engage with this assignment in ways equal to their classmates who read at or above grade level. Each time I return to an assignment, I add strategies, like polling, discussion boards, and partner work to make the experience more engaging. Explain what happened here.

Blended Learning 396

Blended Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Discussions 396

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Many teachers already are rethinking assessments and assignments to shift the question from how students will use AI to cheat, to how students can learn to use AI responsibly. Assignments that ask students to produce answers using AI can encourage students to critically consider the information provided.

Plagiarism 331

Plagiarism Education Assignments Essay 331

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 24, 2018

I decided to use InsertLearning to add highlights, notes, questions, and discussion prompts to the article. Click the question mark icon to insert a question. For teachers using Google Classroom, you can share your interactive assignments via Google Classroom. Teaching students active online reading strategies.

Discussions 419

Discussions Critical Thinking Reading Assignments 419

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

For example, students who are unable to type can use voice-to-text tools to compose responses to questions or complete written assignments inside of Google Documents. As I work with educators adapting to teaching online, I emphasize the importance of variety, flexibility, and student agency. Expression and Communication.

Universal Design 546

Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Textbooks 546

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

My work focuses on supporting leaders, coaches, and teachers in transitioning from traditional teaching practices to blended learning. It’s a place where interpersonal risks feel doable, interpersonal risks, like speaking up with questions and concerns and half-baked ideas and even mistakes.” What did you learn?

Blended Learning 506

Blended Learning Feedback Coaching Achievement 506

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Wiggins says the best feedback is: Goal-oriented or referenced: Feedback should clarify the goals of the assignment or task, guiding students toward a clear desired result or outcome. Teachers still play a central role, inputting assignments, selecting or creating rubrics, and determining how many attempts a student has to submit an answer.

Feedback 344

Feedback Coaching Assignments Motivation 344

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

Fifth-grade teacher Kim Voge has had students literally beg her to give them more writing assignments. Voge has also watched students who began her class too shy to ask questions blossom into confident, capable, autonomous learners who can ask for help or advocate for themselves. Focus on student ownership.

Learning 332

Learning Assignments Coaching Elementary School 332

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2018

I regularly work with teachers who like the idea of trying new teaching strategies, blended learning models, and technology tools, but they don’t have the time or energy to experiment. ” I want them to pause and rephrase the question, “How can students? Instead of asking themselves, “How can I?”

Blended Learning 419

Blended Learning Learning Students Feedback 419

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Since the earliest days of colleges experimenting with teaching over the internet, the goal has been to replicate as closely as possible the physical classroom experience. After all, in-person was seen as the gold standard, and the question was whether that could be faithfully reproduced online.

Teaching 218

Teaching Lecturing Blended Courses Instructors 218