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JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. In this blog post, we’ll unlock the secrets to successful essay writing and share 10 proven tips to help you level up your writing game. What is Effective Essay Writing?

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Students are grouped based on their skill or ability levels and rotate through all the stations. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels. Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels.

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MAY 18, 2023

Many students dread IB essays. Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. One of them is the extended essay. Hence, you need all the help you can get.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Evaluation 148

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What: Teaching techniques designed to meet the needs of a diverse group of learners with varied needs, skills, abilities, and language proficiencies. Differentiating the content, or how students access knowledge, understanding, and skills. writing an essay, completing a multimedia project, tackling a performance task).

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. This also teaches students to hone their self-directed learning skills as they own more of the responsibility for their learning.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Twenty-two heads snapped up to attention. Okaaaay,” I called them to attention. “I The skills I want my students to leave the classroom with are not necessarily how to identify the eight parts of speech, analyze Shakespeare, or write a seven-paragraph argumentative essay. Focus on care, not skills.

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Skills Teaching Students Essay 218

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JANUARY 22, 2025

With infinite information at their fingertips, how do we equip this new type of student with the skills to interpret, problem solve, and think critically about the information they encounter when we are not always the ones delivering it to them? Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 14(1). How do I use design thinking?

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Higher-order thinking skills are essential for success, so we should use edtech to drive that thinking Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting the education landscape. Memorization and other lower-order skills represented at the bottom of Bloom’s Taxonomy or Level One of Webb’s Depth of Knowledge wheel are part of the learning process.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

I specifically love the contest as it’s a chance for students to tap into their individual interests and emphasize their skills and talents in their submission. Children’s books are designed to grab the attention of the reader and keep it. I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom.

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MARCH 22, 2023

It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Seventy percent of high school juniors and seniors believe AI-powered tools, including ChatGPT, can be a resource in brainstorming ideas for their college essays or short answer responses. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Pearson is expanding the power of digital technology to help students build strong writing skills. Now, Pearson Writer digital writing resources are integrated with Microsoft Word, providing students access to support for improving their writing skills. “I have a hard time planning for essays, and I usually procrastinate.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

His goal: Creating a place where all students graduate from school with the skills, attitudes, and values necessary to anchor their success in work, life, and their social-emotional well-being. Teachers can model responsible decision making, positive relationship building and other important SEL skills in their everyday interactions.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Many teachers are exceptional public speakers and storytellers and should not be deterred from using their skills in their classrooms. Guided lectures with Pear Deck or Apple’s Classroom iPad app can keep students’ attention on the topic at hand by ensuring that their screens will display exactly what the teacher needs them to see.

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

At the same time, when it comes to typing or using a platform in the learning context, a lot of times students aren't receiving any sort of formal computer-skills training.” Engagement Matters It turns out that students do have digital skills, but not necessarily the digital literacy they need to do their schoolwork.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2018

Check out the following four videos for help with your professional learning network (PLN), to supplement lessons about video essays, to help students self-assess, and more. If you want to get your students’ attention, show them how real-world issues affect people. 9 Great Documentaries for High School Classrooms.

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Essay Critical Thinking Attention High School 164

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MAY 21, 2020

If students aren’t rewarded with an A for their five paragraph essay, why write it? Schools must provide students the opportunity to learn new skills. To facilitate competence, schools need to shift the attention from specific content students should learn, to focusing on helping them build the skills they are motivated to learn.

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Motivation Grades Students Essay 218

eSchool News

JULY 5, 2018

Overall, the goal is to break down writing into its essential elements, giving students the opportunity to master them before drafting essays and reports. Thus, students are able to pay more attention to the content of their writing because they understand the foundations. Based on several research reports, Jenny Hamilton, M.Ed.,

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Essay Writing Assignments Attention 183

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Students who spent formative years learning online may be too nervous to raise a hand in class or have trouble paying attention. And they argue that teachers at the college level should now essentially teach the study skills that students might not have learned in school before arriving on campuses. Teaching The Why Sarah Z.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 199

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NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Artificial Intelligence–AI–has been around a long time, but caught everyone’s attention with the launch of generative AI, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. In addition, many students are using AI to write coursework and essays, which has caused a lot of outrage. This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 183

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“The National Civics Bee is designed to showcase the knowledge and skills all of us need to thrive in the 21st Century. Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in participating states are invited to submit a 500-word essay addressing a community issue. Chamber of Commerce Foundation.

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Math Middle School Middle School Essay 261

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo, powered by ChatGPT technology, includes features meant to help students work through math and science problems, analyze text, chat with historical figures, navigate college admissions, and revise essays, among other features. It is also designed to help teachers create instructions for assignments and review student performance.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. In an essay penned in 1935, which has become one of the anchor texts I’ve drawn from throughout my career, W.E.B.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 187

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Though today’s young people have gained a reputation as “digital natives,” that doesn’t always translate to having the digital skills that are needed to succeed in college. And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations.

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Teaching Culture Internet Students 202

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Also, only some teachers have the time or money to invest in building courses with the functionality, attention to the user experience, and variety of hints and examples that a third-party software vendor can afford. For example, students must complete X lessons, earn X game points, log X time on task minutes, or master X skill assessments.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 259

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OCTOBER 23, 2017

Like many skills, good writing comes with good practice. He explains that writing an essay or report is a complex process that combines language production, memory retrieval and thinking ability. The act of handwriting does force an attention to the [writing] process,” says Dillon. Writers are like dancers, like athletes.

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Writing Essay Learning English 148

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JANUARY 7, 2025

With stories on themes such as climate change education, social-emotional skills and kindergarten readiness, we underscored the continuity that exists from the early years into grade school. But she says that starts with equipping their teachers with the confidence and skills they need to integrate tech into their classrooms.

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Education Coaching Essay Elementary School 156

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JANUARY 17, 2024

This provider will complete your essays with ease, allowing you to allocate some time to mindfulness practices. Mindful Listening Teaching students to listen actively can enhance their communication skills and mindfulness. Another great way to alleviate some academic stress is outsourcing some of your assignments to trustmypaper.com.

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Schools Instructors Coaching Essay 166

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The best teachers are learners first, then role models for the SEL skills they want to see in their students. With SEL, students not only experience less anxiety, less hyperactivity, and less aggression, they’re generally happier and more attentive, too. The impact on teachers is no less profound. Data must drive decision making.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. They (rightfully) paid attention to trauma and marginalization but missed the joy, creativity and production of BIPOC culture.

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 200

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JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

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Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 195

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Using these seven suggestions, you can make sure the learning continues even as Thanksgiving pulls their attention away.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. His low level of engagement stemmed from his struggle with attention and his lack of confidence. His insecurities led him to believe that he couldn’t do his work well.

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Testing Essay Writing Motivation 135

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. Using these seven suggestions, you can make sure the learning continues even as Thanksgiving pulls their attention away.

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Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

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JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. Attention feels more frayed and fragile during live video lessons for all of us. Let’s be frank. We can innovate.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s in school libraries where students often discover and hone their love of coding and programming, create amazing projects via makerspaces, and where they develop important 21st-century skills. What are the new trends in libraries? Who is the modern librarian? During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. Work smarter, not harder.”

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Schools Languages Language Reading 246

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JUNE 13, 2018

When we consider college access for low-income, first-generation and other underrepresented populations, little attention is put on rethinking the metrics considered in the admissions process. The gamified assessment allows ALU to assess for these cognitive and non-cognitive skills in a standardized and automated manner.

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Testing Essay Evaluation Motivation 147