Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2025

Dizzying graphics, loud noises, and incessant rewards can lead to attention deficits or emotional dysregulation. No application, no matter how brilliant it is, can do what a teacher or parent can offer when it comes to attention, encouragement, eye contact, and offering affection. Access is the other issue.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

Taken together, the product improvements for Back-to-School 2025 empower teachers to create personalized learning experiences for all learners with inquiry, excitement, and exploration that will hold students’ attention while challenging them academically.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Designed to work alongside innovative product enhancements announced earlier this year , these new resources empower teachers to create personalized learning experiences with inquiry, excitement, and exploration that will hold students attention while challenging them academically.

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Laboratory Social Studies Education Middle School 188

k12 Digest

JUNE 24, 2025

This philosophy is embedded in the British Curriculum, which offers both structure and flexibility. ProEd Global School blends this rigorous curriculum with personalized support, ensuring that every learner gets the guidance they need to thrive, not just survive in the classroom. “Our goal is to help them define it on their own terms.”

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Today, I serve as Vice-Principal of B.School, where I lead efforts to integrate well-being, sustainability, and equity into our core curriculum. Within my own schools, one of the most defining moments was leading the integration of social-emotional learning and well-being into the core academic curriculum. I am also pursuing a Ph.D.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

The Academy Program, on the other hand, serves students who benefit from a highly customized curriculum with a strong emphasis on life skills, vocational training, and independent living. Small class sizes ensure that every student receives the individual attention they need.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

Thus, I paid attention and reflected during the action in order to construct adjustments, while doing hybrid-teaching at the same time. When blind spots and shortcomings arise, pay attention to how you reframe them in order to get back on track. When your class ends, write down the during-action reflection as soon as possible.

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

JULY 21, 2025

I’m giving you a crash course on curriculum planning in just one weekend. Friday: Pick Your Rhythm When you’re curriculum planning, you’re looking at a lot of different ELA skills: reading, writing, grammar, listening, and vocabulary. Instead, the rhythm that worked best for my curriculum planning was alternating units.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

According to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 60% of students report feeling bored during class, a clear indication that the traditional model often fails to capture attention. Moreover, traditional classrooms typically lack personalized learning opportunities.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

Check out STEM activities for middle school that are sure to catch teenagers attention and inspire them to learn more. Add more middle school STEM projects, challenges, and activities to your everyday curriculum to prepare students for their future careers some of which may not even exist yet! Explore middle school resources

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

Pay special attention to roles that directly impact legal compliance, such as Special Education, ELL, or state-tested subjects. For many districts, these grants cover the salaries of ESL-certified teachers, language acquisition curriculum, and professional development for content-based sheltered instruction.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2025

Both the loss of school librarians in Philadelphias school district and its disappointing reading scores caught the attention of Deb Kachel, a school librarian of 30 years. Michigan doesnt have anything in our state mandating curriculum about information literacy or media literacy teaching kids how to vet sources, she said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

For example, most PBS Kids episodes are 11 minutes, accounting for children’s shorter attention spans and how much they can retain in a single sitting. It’s almost like we’re educators making the curriculum in school: There’s a level of expertise that we bring.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

What environmental issue should we pay the most attention to? Practice writing skills based on the CCSS for history and social studies and your 8th grade history curriculum with tailored prompts. What historical event has impacted your life the most? Explain why Earth has seasons and why they’re different around the world.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 22, 2025

She also let me know, kindly but firmly, that she disapproved of our play-based curriculum. In his book The Search After Truth , rationalist philosopher Nicholas Malebranche writes, "The mind does not pay equal attention to everything it perceives.

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Evaluation Attention Reading Writing 97

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2025

Hundreds of those families garnered national attention by turning out at their own state Capitol. An additional legislative proposal, Assembly Bill 5825 , would require families to comply with state curriculum standards and submit new paperwork requirements to local school district officials twice a year.

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Schools Attention Study Curriculum 278

Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

For students, this means larger class sizes, less individualized attention and support, and a lower quality of education overall. High workloads, inadequate resources, and lack of personalized attention can also negatively impact education quality. They deeply understand the curriculum, student behavior, and classroom management.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

In this vein, his executive orders have targeted diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives , restorative justice programs , curriculum that suggests the United States has racist origins , and especially protections for transgender students. Teachers walk a line as Trump targets DEI Trump promised to get “woke” out of American schools.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 30, 2025

Pay attention to what sparks your childs curiosity, and help them find ways to deepen their skills through inquiry-based learning. Whether youre a seasoned homeschooler or about to dive into your first full year of curriculum planning , one things always true: having solid homeschool lesson plans in place makes everything smoother.

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Teaching STEM Art Learning 52

eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Financial literacy, and the role of K-12 schools in promoting it, is getting lots of attention these days. At the high school level, financial literacy curriculum is often delivered as a separate course within social studies, consumer science, or business. 37 states (+DC) require the standards be implemented.

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Teaching Social Studies Schools Middle School 528

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 6, 2025

But it's equally inappropriate in that the way this type of curriculum is delivered requires young children to fight their bodies into chairs, and rein in their mind on the hoof. Attention during action is our natural state. We are literally dumbing our children down in order to "prepare" them for their sedentary future.

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Writing Language Languages Attention 74

eSchool News

MAY 26, 2016

Successful online and blended learning programs in a recent survey are those that prioritized better teacher-student relationships, used an online curriculum as a primary instructional source, and used a combination of in-person and virtual instructional support.

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Online Learning Study Blended Learning Counselling 347

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

Cardholders also cite state-specific legislation that alters what their teachers can teach and their libraries can shelve, and librarians who draw unwanted attention to the age-appropriateness of the titles they check out. Take, for instance, Destiny, a widely used book checkout system in school libraries across the country.

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Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 211

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 21, 2025

81% of marketers agree interactive content grabs attention more effectively and 66% admit it increases audience engagement. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. I can attest to this popularity.

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Teachers Participation Attention Curriculum 99

eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2017

To keep attention from wandering and to build up stamina, use a highly visible digital timer. Sometimes, using something many students like (technology) can get them inspired to read. Use a digital timer. Sustained silent reading time can feel like “forever” for a reluctant reader.

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Reading Technology Students Motivation 265

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2021

While it might be easier to see how comics would fit into an English language arts class, there’s no great trick to incorporating them across the curriculum. Why comics? The most obvious reason to have students create comics in class is because they’re fun.

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Curriculum English Attention Art 352

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2019

Instead, they decided to switch to something different that caught their attention and motivated them to challenge themselves. Should I let my student’s interest and/or distraction drive my curriculum? Why this lesson worked.

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Curriculum Students Motivation Attention 280

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2020

There is an inequality of teacher attention. This inequality of attention is not a teacher shortcoming but rather a natural product of having a group of students in the physical classroom with the teacher while other students attend class online. First, I want to identify a few of the challenges I observe in concurrent classrooms.

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Attention Blended Learning Activities Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2019

They use reward charts and other external incentives, like class parties or the promise of points, to entice students to follow directions, complete assignments, and pay attention in class. This reminds me of the way many teachers run their classrooms.

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Teaching Motivation Attention Classroom Management 421

eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2021

And yet, there is a set of skills that’s not given enough attention in the classroom: Executive functioning. . While executive functioning is starting to gain some deserved attention in the classroom, parents can have a huge impact on the growth of these skills for their children. education system imparts on our youth.

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Skills Attention Social Studies Math 347

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2023

House of Representatives’ Education and Workforce Committee is giving the approach attention. In recent years, many colleges have made growing use of real-time labor market analytics to keep up with changes in the workplace and potentially “tune” their curriculum to new job-market developments.

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Attention Skills Learning Outcomes Evaluation 146

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In a recent training, I shared “ 15 Virtual Field Trips for Kids of All Ages, ” which has a fantastic collection of virtual field trips, and asked teachers to explore these virtual tours and brainstorm how they could use these online experiences to enhance their curriculum.

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Attention Questions Online Learning Reading 357

eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2020

If you’ve been paying attention to education news lately, you’ve probably noticed that the conversation around technology in the classroom is shifting. What’s more important now is that the technology in our schools and homes is positively impacting student learning through engagement, personalized lessons and effective curriculum.

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Blended Learning Education Learning Students 356

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

” Conferences gave educators–including administrators, classroom teachers, IT leaders, curriculum directors–to attend sessions targeted to their interests and their individual school or district needs. Of interest is Attention! And it’s the kind of learning that will change the story of education.”

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

Student engagement is “ the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught.” ” As a teacher, it’s my job to engage student curiosity, interest and passion in relation to the curriculum.

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Learning Students Lecturing Attention 420

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Teachers might face pressures from lesson planning, meeting new students, or adjusting to changes in curriculum. For students, integrating mental health education into the curriculum can create an environment that encourages open conversation about mental health struggles and reduces the associated stigma.

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Schools Communication Curriculum Attention 330

eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

Key points: Interactivity and engaging resources can make science more approachable Elementary school teachers need easy-to-use science tools that will grab students’ attention During my time as a kindergarten teacher, I learned three major lessons about our youngest learners’ relationship to science.

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