eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2023

history teacher Travis Malekpour hesitated assigning his students work in the classroom that required a computer. Three years later, Malekpour, who teaches in Queens, doesn’t think twice about assigning and grading in-class work that requires a device. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. newsletters.

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Accessibility Teachers History Instructors 261

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 12, 2019

Although many teachers recognize the importance of making students active agents in the classroom, it is easy to overlook student agency when we plan our lessons. A simple approach is to think about the what, how, and why of a lesson, assignment, or project and give students the opportunity to answer one of those questions.

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Assignments Students Blended Learning Motivation 420

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As classroom teachers, one of the many challenges we face is student engagement. For our purposes, we are going to say that student engagement is the ability for a teacher to draw the attention or interest of students for the sake of learning. You must believe in your ability as a teacher to create or find engaging lessons.

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Student Engagement Teachers Students Attention 305

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Who decided that grading and assessment should be the exclusive responsibility of teachers? Self-assessing Practice and Review Too often, when teachers assign review and practice in class or for homework, the responsibility for checking the accuracy of that work falls on the teacher.

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Evaluation Assignments Failure Discussions 428

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas is turning over some of the scoring process of its high-stakes standardized tests to robots. News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2024

Signs of this teacher shortage are evident in my own district. We fill other positions with online teachers in different states. I believe that the ways they went about fulfilling that mission may hold lessons for us today in addressing our critical teacher shortage. I teach Latin at a public high school in New Jersey.

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Teachers Testing High School High School 261

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 19, 2014

I was not prepared for the level of enthusiasm, excitement, and creativity that was generated by this assignment. Now that finals are over, I am more convinced than ever that teachers need to embrace unconventional forms of assessment. Similarly, I have students who are great test takers. They were so focused and on task.

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Essay Exams English Assignments 420

eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

NEW YORK – Brainly, the AI Learning Companion TM used by 15 million monthly active users, announces the release of Test Prep, the latest AI-powered innovation designed to improve test scores, boost student confidence and reduce anxiety. students confirming they don’t give themselves enough time to study for their tests.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2025

The research shows American teachers are increasingly embracing AI to reduce admin tasks, improve work-life balance, and free-up time to focus on teaching. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? Most educators are harnessing the technology either weekly (41 percent) or daily (28 percent).

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Teachers Ethics Exams Coaching 204

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, he points to the product’s assessment strategies focused on student outcomes, employing a combination of automated evaluations and teacher-led assessments to ensure comprehensive learning assessment. 00:00:35 Speaker 1 The math teacher. 00:00:36 Speaker 1 Or the science teacher or the librarian.

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Science Teachers STEM Middle School 284

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 24, 2015

homework, classwork, projects, tests, and projects), I identified the main skills we would be focusing on developing in this class and used those to create my gradebook categories. That’s totally up to the teacher. Instead of organizing my gradebook using traditional categories (e.g. Grading for Mastery Using a 4 Point Scale.

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Grades Essay Assignments Skills 420

eSchool News

JULY 3, 2023

DENTON, Texas — In an effort to fill more than 3,500 teaching vacancies, the Virginia Department of Education has chosen iteach as the identified partner for alternative teachers certification in 24 divisions of the Commonwealth. To date, iteach has helped more than 20,000 teachers become certified.

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Teachers Special Education Testing Assignments 225

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Students are assigned a tech-integrated project and are faced with limited resources and inadequate workspaces to use the latest tools. Obstacles for teachers who are trying to engage learners during change. This happens all over the country in traditional educational buildings today. So how are we supporting change? The environment.

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Teachers Assignments Students Participation 228

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Every test score, attendance log, learning app, or digital assignment generates data. Teachers use data dashboards to track student progress. Why it matters for K-12 teachers As educators, we regularly interact with data, benchmark scores, reading levels, engagement analytics from edtech tools, and state test results.

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Ethics Education Culture Social Studies 280

Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2025

Technology may pose solutions, too: some counselors say they are changing how they connect with students and are testing out artificial intelligence platforms. Or you could also look at it and itll say, Hey, this kiddo is not quite understanding the assignment. I think we as educators have to have our own AI literacy, said Kemble.

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Ethics Schools Students Skills 156

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. She advises teachers to emphasize the importance of struggle and mistakes as part of the learning. Over 50,000 teachers have already joinedcome on in.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 77

eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In particular, teachers report escalating anxiety symptoms since the pandemic lockdowns, and data is now available to support their conclusions. Dealing with struggling students can overwhelm teachers as they report spending more time attempting to support individuals while shortchanging the rest of the class. Physical signs.

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Students Achievement Motivation Disabilities 349

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. The Preparatory Programs support students who thrive in a structured setting without the added stress of homework or standardized testing.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 144

eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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Teaching Ethics Education Teaching Methods 328

eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Passive learning, on the other hand, means students passively receive information–for example, students might use a Chromebook to take a test or submit assignments in a learning management system. A majority of teachers report engaging students in active learning with classroom technology.

Activities 309

Activities Middle School Middle School Critical Thinking 309

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

.” When someone shares a strategy they describe as a “smashing success,” I want to shine a light on that in the hopes that it can help other teachers. 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.

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Assignments Schools Middle School Middle School 318

eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

Homework is one of those topics that consistently baffles teachers. Every few years, new research comes out arguing the merits or pitfalls of assigning homework. Generally, I think that any teacher could make the case for or against assigning homework, depending on the circumstance. I don’t assign much.

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Assignments Failure Math Motivation 267

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Because the tool can assist with assignments like generating essays from prompts, students quickly integrated these technologies into the classroom. For example, teachers also demonstrate comparable levels of bias to the world around them. The biases of AI are not mystical; they are very much a mirror of our own.

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Motivation Essay Learning Beliefs 332

eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

Though many teachers tout the importance of STEM learning, many also shy away from the “E” in STEM. While those aren’t tested on standardized tests, it’s a necessary and important piece of what students and learners need when they get out into the workforce. Test your design or prototype 6.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking Lecturing 310

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

I started brainstorming and collaborating with my peers and fellow teachers about ways to successfully teach hands-on physics remotely. I immediately thought about how I was going to teach remotely when a lot of the lessons are experiments and hands-on activities.

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Quizzes STEM Learning Assignments 325

eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Before I adopted phenomena-based instruction, most of the questions students asked were some variation on, “Is this going to be on the test?” They were focused on whether they would have to memorize this fact or that process to pass a test. I think most teachers have heard students asking again and again, “Why do I need to learn this?”

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Science STEM Testing Questions 327

eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

In the past, limited-English or non-English households may have struggled with understanding assignments, feedback, or grading. Now, not only is the curriculum more accessible, but translation and chat capabilities power direct parent-to-teacher communication in any given language. Take today’s state standardized tests as an example.

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English Education Language Languages 312

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The air is crisp, the colors are beautiful, and, as school has been in session for two months, students and teachers alike have settled into a nice routine. Just as in classrooms nationwide, Montana’s teachers place an intense focus on supporting literacy in elementary school instruction.

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Quizzes 339

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

It provides teachers with invaluable formative assessment data, allowing them to informally assess student understanding and identify misconceptions, gaps, and areas that need additional instruction and support. Can you suggest creative assignments for grade students to express their learning about ?

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History Art Essay Physical Education 382

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

They could be implemented at the institutional level, but instructors should be given the opportunity to determine the level of generative AI tool use at the course or even the assignment level. In other courses, I restrict the use of generative AI tools to particular uses for specific assignments.

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Ethics Instructors Education Academic Integrity 321

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In that moment, even before I entered my teacher preparation program, I confronted a troubling reality: in education, there would always be scripts I’d be expected to follow. As a beginning teacher, however, it wasn’t my sexuality that initially cast a shadow over my work - it was the expectations embedded in yet another script.

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Teachers English Schools Questions 205

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

And perform worse on tests. Of course, like every other subject, the true test and value of civics and history extends far beyond academics and assessments. Of course, like every other subject, the true test and value of civics and history extends far beyond academics and assessments.

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Science Teachers History Learning 210

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Cyber Legends has reached out to teachers, schools, school boards, cybersecurity experts, and online safety professionals to collect data over the past 2 years to learn about their challenges. Cyber Legends also comes with tons of free resources to help teachers, parents, and children. and Canada.

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Mobile Devices Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Students 317

eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Building on teacher intuition Teachers are an intuitive bunch. Now, we do have technology that can support this, so teachers no longer have to simply do their best with a mixture of old data and hunches. Ways teachers can use real-time data Data only matters when we turn it into action.

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Education Students Assignments Accessibility 285

eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Any teacher hoping to meet their students where they are and help them grow into active learners cannot rely on a one-size-fits-all method of instruction. However, teachers are busy people with an ever-growing list of responsibilities. However, teachers are busy people with an ever-growing list of responsibilities.

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Teaching Philosophy Students Assignments Culture 280

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning. It can reduce the onus on the teacher,” Miller says. This revived interest is also backed by research. That’s frustrating.”

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 215

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. AudioPen is an AI-powered tool that converts voice notes into text that’s easy to read and ready to share with students and fellow teachers.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 331