Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. When considering a teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge, eliciting student feedback is paramount. Another key theme was the acknowledgment of active, collaborative, and applied learning activities.

Assignments 59

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 59

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

Throughout my career as a behavior therapist, classroom teacher, and Head of School, Ive worked closely with students on the spectrum and their families. When we personalize support, structure the environment thoughtfully, and teach with clarity and empathy, we give students the best chance to reach their full potential.

Students 234

Students Learning Styles Assignments Communication 234

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. When considering a teacher’s pedagogical content knowledge, eliciting student feedback is paramount. Another key theme was the acknowledgment of active, collaborative, and applied learning activities.

Assignments 61

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 61

eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

These platforms offer unprecedented opportunities to personalize learning, refine curriculum development, and support teaching. This AI era is not solely about technological advancement–it’s about ensuring that innovation serves the needs of teachers and learners.

Education 299

Education Quizzes Ethics Academic Integrity 299

eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

Teachers and parents can assign grade-level texts, paired with vocabulary lessons and comprehension questions. ReadWorks : Reading skills are among the most vulnerable to decline during the summer, especially for students who do not have regular access to books or structured reading activities.

Math 276

Math Quizzes Critical Thinking History 276

eSchool News

JULY 10, 2025

I am an 8th-grade science teacher in a fairly large district, and I recognize the importance of these engaging and interactive resources to help students build knowledge and continue learning. Building a Gimkit From the teacher’s side of Gimkit, the platform makes it extremely easy to build lessons for the students to use.

Multiple Choice Questions 264

Multiple Choice Questions Game-Based Learning Students Fairness 264

eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

Key points: Students need more than digital access; they need guidance 5 AI tools for classroom creativity A new era for teachers as AI disrupts instruction For more news on navigating AI, visit eSNs Digital Learning hub Finding accurate information has long been a cornerstone skill of librarianship and classroom research instruction.

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Evaluation Ethics Academic Integrity Internet 258

Teach Hub

JUNE 27, 2025

Using the right teaching strategies can make all the difference. If students are not getting the encouragement they need from home, then they need to get it from a teacher or a peer. Teaching them about how the brain learns can change everything. That’s where you come in. Instead, break things down.

Teaching 94

Teaching Failure Students Feedback 94

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Having conducted well over a thousand observations of K-12 teachers over the last 15 years, I have noticed there is one piece of feedback I have given more than any other–and it involves a seemingly minor word change. Multiple times in any class period, teachers call on students to contribute to the lesson of the day.

Culture 273

Culture Feedback Languages Language 273

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online.

Math 247

Math Participation Feedback High School 247

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it.

Multiple Choice Questions 80

Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

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. Teachers can use Gemini to create personalized lesson plans in a much shorter amount of time.

Education 215

Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 215

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Teaching 8th grade ELA can be a uniquely rewarding experience, as long as you’ve got the right tools. A good classroom management system, a novel list, and a set of writing prompts go a long way to set students and teachers up for success. But is that enough to prepare new teenagers for 9th grade? Table of Contents 1.

Grades 52

Grades Teaching Teachers Teaching Philosophy 52

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. I think a lot of the teachers and parents don’t know, either.” Usually parents who attended college or are wealthier teach their children about new technology and how to use it, Hayes says.

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Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 169

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

Teachers must align instructional content with state and national standards, prepare and organize materials, and thoughtfully structure collaborative learning experiences to ensure effective learning outcomes. In the second phase of the lesson, teams rotate and are assigned to another group’s obstacle course.

STEM 196

STEM Interdisciplinary Collaborative Learning Communication 196

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

What if the missing ingredient in student achievement isn’t better curriculum, tech, or teachers, but better motivation? What if the key to unlocking motivation isn’t something intrinsic to students, but something found in their relationships with peers, teachers, mentors, and communities? Our job isn’t to teach them how to learn.

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Motivation Learning Students Achievement 279

k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

For instance, the University of Murcia integrated chatbots into their learning management system to provide real-time feedback on assignments, resulting in a 30% improvement in students understanding of course material [4]. Similarly, platforms like QuizBot and Buddy.ai

Education 150

Education Learning Knowledge Feedback 150

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Re-examine assignments and assessments for bias and exclusionary practices. Replace and/or supplement outdated readings.

Accessibility 95

Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 95

Teach Hub

APRIL 30, 2025

Keeping students engaged is a daily goal that teachers are always trying to hit, and for good reason: its directly tied to how much students learn and retain. If youre looking for something new to try, one simple yet powerful strategy might surprise you: take your teaching outside. Use these moments as teaching tools.

Activities 81

Activities Teaching Learning Attention 81

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

Each assignment has 1-10 points, with a total of 100 points. In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester. I especially wanted students to understand that the final assignment was anything but.

Grades 74

Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 74

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments. That detector first became popular among professors when the internet made it easy for students to copy and paste information from websites into their assignments.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 118

Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2025

For many counselors, the prevalence of children using social media to self-diagnose suggests a larger problem related to lasting social and emotional impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, unregulated virtual spaces and the importance of teaching media literacy skills. I think we as educators have to have our own AI literacy, said Kemble.

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Ethics Schools Students Skills 159

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom. Faculty and students need to work together to foster engagement in online spaces.

eLearning 69

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 69

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Since the public release of ChatGPT in December 2022, educators have faced the challenge of effectively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their teaching. Strategic Approaches to AI Integration One effective strategy is to intentionally redesign classroom activities and assignments to incorporate AI tools.

Ethics 88

Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 88

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom. Faculty and students need to work together to foster engagement in online spaces.

eLearning 67

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 67

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

English learners often face challenges in understanding lessons, participating in discussions and completing assignments , which can lead to lower achievement and increased feelings of isolation. Now, I understand my teachers better. Ive seen students become more confident in speaking to both teachers and classmates.

English 134

English Language Languages Assignments 134

eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

These students might take longer to complete assignments or may miss visual cues from teachers, making it difficult to follow along with lessons. Students with this impairment might have difficulty identifying peers or teachers unless they are spoken to directly. The glasses can help with these social challenges.

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Assistive Technology Students Textbooks Reading 204

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently stated in an interview that advances in AI will mean the humans will no longer be needed for most things, and stated that doctors and teachers in particular could be replaced by AI (CNBC, 2025). He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI. Saucier, Ph.D.

Instructors 98

Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 98

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

As the seminal punk band so adequately expressed for millions of teens across the country, no one represents the concept of authority better than their teachers and administrators. In fact, in my practice as an educator who teaches U.S. In most classrooms, the management boils down to, “I’m the teacher, so I’m in charge.”

Multiple Choice Questions 115

Multiple Choice Questions History Students Beliefs 115

Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

As a teacher, that makes engaging students in math a real challenge. Use budgeting activities to teach percentageshave students plan a trip with a set budget. IXL.com is a popular online math practice tool that many teachers swear by. Its great for in-class use and also works well as a homework assignment. The good news?

Math 88

Math Textbooks Quizzes Participation 88

Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

Not only is it okay to stop grading every single assignment , but there’s also a smarter way to ensure your students are learning and growing: self-checking student work. The Mindset Shift Teachers Need Most of us were trainedor conditionedto believe that grading equals accountability. What Is Self-Checking Student Work?

Students 52

Students Peer Review Math Assignments 52

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

This frequently results in greater funding for local schools, yielding better resources, highly qualified teachers, robust programming and unsurprisingly, higher school ratings. And until it doesn’t, I’ll keep teaching, mothering, writing, and shouting — because this isn’t just policy. Black and Latinx. Working-class. But it does.

Elementary School 114

Elementary School Elementary School Testing Accessibility 114

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.)

Gamification 103

Gamification Learning Motivation Learning Styles 103

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Use SEL check-in strategies to check up on struggling kids in your class who seem less interested in the instruction, including teacher-to-student journals for learners to keep you up to date on their lives. Shift to a student-centered classroom It’s no secret that teacher-centered classrooms are on the way out in the 21st century.

High School 52

High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

These data-driven approaches make it possible to transition from reactive teaching to proactive guidance. This data is accessible to both teachers and students through visual dashboards, which serve as powerful motivators and intervention tools. Flipped Classroom 2.0 In-class activities should build directly on pre-class efforts.

Critical Thinking 88

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 88

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. Many teachers have attempted to deter cheating with AI by threatening greater consequences.

Academic Integrity 92

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Assigned seats in a grid pattern aren’t your only option for an engaging classroom setup anymore! With large conference seating, teachers may find it hard to be locked in the middle of the square. They can be easily moved to meet student, teacher, and class needs at a moment’s notice without a lot of energy spent.

Classroom Management 98

Classroom Management Discussions Grades Lecturing 98