Teach Hub

JUNE 12, 2025

Reciprocal reading is a structured yet flexible strategy where students work together to make sense of a text using four roles: summarizer, questioner, clarifier, and predictor. When they know they’ll need to summarize aloud or share with a group, they read more attentively and more purposefully.

Reading

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

AI-enabled systems such as adaptive learning platforms, chatbots, and generative tools like ChatGPT can provide students with on-demand explanations, simulate peer discussions, offer low-stakes quizzes, and give instant feedback. AI Tools In the Flipped Classroom 2.0 In-class activities should build directly on pre-class efforts.

Critical Thinking

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

AI-enabled systems such as adaptive learning platforms, chatbots, and generative tools like ChatGPT can provide students with on-demand explanations, simulate peer discussions, offer low-stakes quizzes, and give instant feedback. AI Tools In the Flipped Classroom 2.0 In-class activities should build directly on pre-class efforts.

Critical Thinking

Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

We have all seen the stereotypical portrayal of the traditional school setting where a teacher stands at the front of the classroom and spends the entirety of class time giving a lecture and asking questions of the students. No matter how interesting the teacher, sometimes it can be hard for students to focus for very long on a lecture.

Lecturing

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Conference Seating: Best for whole-class discussions 2. Horseshoe: Best for class discussions and inclusivity 5. Conference Seating: Best for whole-class discussions Similar to group pods, this type of classroom seating arrangement involves having all of the desks connected to feel more like a large conference room table.

Classroom Management

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

Hybrid Learning

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

You can also ask survey questions like “What should I know about you before the school year starts?” Conduct a casual formative assessment during a class discussion or group activity, and regularly check in with students who need more support. Then you can get to know them yourself!

High School

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Small class sizes ensure that every student receives the individual attention they need. Multi-sensory learning techniques, such as hands-on activities, visual aids, and interactive discussions, further enhance understanding and retention.

Skills

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 21, 2025

Create questions about the last chapter in your novel unit, a list of literary terms, or any other concept you’d like to review in an entertaining and competitive format. Pass a question Hot Potato Engage reluctant learners in your lesson with a lively game of Hot Potato. Bring popular game shows like Jeopardy! Assess regularly.

Middle School

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 21, 2025

Aristotle believed that our highest calling was for each of us to find our true path in life and that the way to discover that was through the answer to the question "What gives you pleasure?" That is what Aristotle means by the question, "What gives you pleasure?" And through that, we discover what it is that makes us come alive.

Questions

k12

JULY 21, 2025

Good question. Use action words that draw attention. If you’ve been captain of a team, led discussion groups, done volunteer work, or participated in a club, write it down. Let Me Introduce Myself Why should you listen to my résumé tips? I have already used my résumé in several applications for jobs I’ve gotten.

High School

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

In your opinion, what sport gets too much attention? What sport should get more attention? Do you wish your parents would ask you more questions about your day, or fewer questions? Inspire students with a walk outside, complete with notebooks, sunshine, and lots of topics for discussion. What would you do?

High School

eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

Rodrequez, who leads the 4,000-student district south of Kansas City, Missouri, has never before been asked so many questions by so many people in his community about federal education policy. She no longer feels comfortable inviting students in her argument and persuasion class to discuss and write about politics and current events.

Education

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to allow parents to pull their children out of classroom discussions around books covering LGBTQ+ and other themes that may conflict with their religious beliefs could embolden efforts to restrict more titles. between 2020 and 2024. The challenges reported to the ALA in 2024 alone targeted 2,452 titles.

Accessibility

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I served as the lunch keynote for TIES on Sunday and then facilitated a lesson redesign workshop that afternoon using our trudacot discussion protocol (thanks, Julie Graber , for joining us!). Protocols are put into place for discussion, dissent, and revisiting previous decisions. . compared to those in more traditional schools].

Schools

Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

Teaching is about attention — getting students to pay attention to the material, and to engage with new ideas so they can develop new skills and abilities. But getting and holding the attention of students has become more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country. I'm a quest giver.

Attention

eSchool News

JULY 10, 2017

Once they locate the video they wish to use, they next use the TED-Ed Lesson editor to add questions, discussion prompts and additional resources. Educators can build lessons around any TED-Ed Original , TED Talk or YouTube video through Ted-Ed. When the lesson is published, educators can monitor their progress and submitted work.

Attention

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

These 10 questions can help prospective students make an informed decision and choose a college where they will thrive academically, socially, and financially. Some students prefer the energy of large lecture halls, while others thrive in small, discussion-based classes. The key is knowing what to ask.

Questions

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

After asking her a few more questions about the conversation, she added, “I didn’t necessarily want special treatment or changes to his workload. In a 2018 Harvard Business Review article , researchers Guy Itzchakov and Avi Kluger discuss their research findings around listening in the workplace. She paused.

Attention

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2024

When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. EdSurge connected with Turner to learn about this new world of fragmented attention and what educators can do to reach these increasingly distracted students. You use a phrase for this that you call ‘budgeted attention.’

Attention

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.

Attention

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 29, 2015

This requires that I design flipped lessons that encourage students to ask questions, analyze the information, and discuss concepts with peers asynchronously online to begin making sense of the information they are receiving at home. Step 4: Add Questions to Get Students Thinking Critically. Open-ended Questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

Over a series of three meetings, my architect asked me countless questions about what I wanted in a home and how I used the space. lecture, discussion, written responses), there are myriad barriers that may make it hard for students to access information and share their learning effectively. Identify and Remove Barriers.

Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

Teachers can pop in and out of breakout rooms while students discuss academic topics and collaborate around shared tasks, but it isn’t the same as walking around a classroom with watchful eyes and attentive ears. What questions or wonderings do you have about this topic? 2 Assess Prior Knowledge. Where are the gaps?

Learning

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

As students rotate to this station, they receive focused attention and resources that address their unique learning challenges or advanced needs, ensuring that each student is supported where they are in their learning journey. Group 2 (On Grade Level): Students read a standard-level folktale and discuss the central message.

Teaching

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Teachers who have traditionally planned a whole group lesson that moves the class, as a unit, through a series of learning activities find it nearly impossible to hold their students’ attention in the concurrent classroom. What questions or suggestions do they have? What’s working? What are they struggling with?

Evaluation

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Yet that discomfort also raises opportunities to question prevailing assumptions about how teaching and learning occurs. The author’s work did not discount the fact that there are inspirational teachers whose lectures are so compelling they can hold student attention for hours. Many things did not translate well online.

Lecturing

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.

Teaching

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I ask them to brainstorm and discuss with colleagues the benefits and challenges of teaching using the whole group, teacher-led, teacher-paced model. Below is an image of teacher responses to the following questions: What are the benefits and challenges of the whole group, teacher-led model from your perspective?

Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

MAY 13, 2024

Instead of simply listening to a teacher explain a concept, unpack a text, or model a strategy, students are challenged to ask questions, think critically, experiment and explore, and collaborate with classmates to learn. What if they aren’t paying attention and don’t get the important information?

Teaching

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Teachers can use observations with a checklist when students are: Engaged in group activities or discussions to monitor individual participation and contributions. Completing hands-on tasks or projects to evaluate their skills, collaboration, and attention to task requirements. What two questions do they have?

Feedback

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?” Quick Writes: Teachers can present a prompt or question related to the video topic and ask students to spend a few minutes writing their thoughts. This encourages brainstorming and prediction.

Lecturing

eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2020

Claws and nails, vultures, third eyelids, Rasputin–these topics are sure to grab students’ attention. Once you find the video you want to use, you can use the TED-Ed Lessons editor to add questions, discussion prompts, and additional resources. Related content: 5 TED-Ed Lessons to introduce students to robotics.

Evaluation

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. 3-2-1 Reflection: As students watch the video, ask them to identify three things they learned (facts/information), two connections they made, and one question they have.

Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

It is in the moments when students are practicing and applying that they encounter obstacles, have questions, and need additional support. I encourage teachers to consider the following question. In the same way, teachers should dedicate the same time and attention to feedback as they do to instruction.

Blended Learning

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Capturing students’ attention throughout the entire class is crucial for any teacher, but the challenge lies in the fact that, despite teachers’ expertise in their subject matter, it can be challenging to hold students’ attention for an extended period. A thought-provoking question is a great crowd-pleaser.

Attention

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A teacher’s cognitive engagement is the degree of attention to and investment in their work (Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). Instead, teachers must strive to design student-centered learning experiences that challenge the students to think, discuss, problem-solve, collaborate, question, create, and reflect.

Blended Learning