Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This article explores how these three components can reshape flipped learning and address persistent challenges such as student unpreparedness, fear of participation, and lack of motivation. These modules are ideal for students who are accustomed to fast-paced digital environments and may have limited attention spans.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 89

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world. It should extend our ability to listen, relate, and empower learners to co-create knowledge within a community of care.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Studies show that students in remote settings often feel isolated, which can lead to decreased motivation and engagement. Research indicates that students thrive in environments where teachers act as facilitators rather than mere dispensers of knowledge. One major issue is the lack of personal interaction.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 135

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Missed Signals Shed Cheated in Her Previous Marathon The press coverage from Boston caught the attention of a New Yorker named Susan Morrow. The Motive It is unknown whether Ruiz intended to cheat in New York or if the opportunity merely presented itself and she took it. Minimize conditions where cheating is most likely to occur.

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 92

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. Why Is There a Teacher Shortage?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

The slides include both psychology-specific and social-emotional prompts, including prompts about motivation and emotion, states of consciousness, and developmental psychology. In your opinion, what sport gets too much attention? What sport should get more attention? What advice would you give yourself in junior high?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The rise of the knowledge economy is driving a tectonic shift in the nature of work—and in the education ecosystem that prepares learners for their careers. The automation and augmentation of jobs is raising the profile of issues surrounding the skills gap to the attention of those beyond the traditional education stakeholders.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

What makes this especially challenging is that the traditional ways schools have motivated students are no longer available. They have also eliminated grades as a motivating factor to do well in school. Letting Go of Grades There is a long standing belief that grades are important because they motivate students to do the work.

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Motivation Grades Students Essay 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods. Without that intrinsic personal motivation, it’s hard to reach the levels we expect and hope,” says Parandeh Kia, associate provost for educational technology at the institute.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

1 Hard to Motivate After a Long Day at School After spending six to seven hours in a structured, often high-pressure academic environment, students face the additional burden of homework. As a result, writing assignments often fail to meet the psychological needs of autonomy, competence, and relatedness required for motivation.

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Assignments Writing Feedback Motivation 458

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. The idea is to keep learners motivated in a class. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. Almost a decade into experiments with gamification, edtech companies are changing the way they approach motivation.

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Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 205

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I hope that a close examination of this approach to designing and facilitating lessons will motivate teachers to explore alternative models that free them from the front of the room. Pain Point: Teachers are frustrated by a lack of student engagement and motivation. There are three main ways to approach differentiation.

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Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Motivation 544

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

This is a critical shift if we want to cultivate expert learners who are resourceful, strategic, and motivated. Over time, the lack of autonomy and agency also negatively impacts a learner’s motivation. The beauty of blended learning models is they shift control over the learning experience from teacher to student.

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Blended Learning Learning Lecturing Motivation 518

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Feedback is critical for helping students enhance their conceptual knowledge and skills. Ongoing: Regular feedback routines ensure that students receive continuous guidance, motivating students to continually improve. Second, AI excels at managing and tracking detailed assessment criteria across many students over time.

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Feedback Coaching Assignments Motivation 348

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). The issue of grading and motivating students to see value in work that is not graded is complex and multifaceted. Where are they seeing growth in their skills and/or content knowledge?

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

Because AI machine learning breaks down student learning patterns and habits, the tutoring systems fire off explanations, examples, and practice targeting a student’s most significant areas of need when the software recognizes the student’s knowledge gap or struggles with mastery.

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Learning Styles Learning Students Gamification 302

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Each student progresses differently based on prior knowledge, learning preferences, and exposure to the language. As students work through the playlist, teachers can gather formative assessment data to identify those who might benefit most from one-on-one attention.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2024

Key points: Students are motivated by academic excellence, personal growth, and development Scaling-up high-dosage tutoring is crucial to students’ academic success 5 ways virtual tutoring reinforces our after-school program For more news on learning trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub This press release originally appeared online.

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Quizzes Motivation Languages Language 282

eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2024

It’s important to bring attention to the fact that there are many people who struggle to communicate with their own family, friends, and neighbors. We’re very excited about this milestone and incredibly proud of our learners’ dedication to gaining knowledge, applying it, and making the world more inclusive.” Reaching 2.5

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Languages Language Gamification Communication 255

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

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Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 126

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Provide personal questionnaires, pay attention to the extracurriculars students participate in and their behavior with other students. Bringing parts of their personal lives into the learning process is not only motivating, but also improves knowledge retention over time. Use prior knowledge as a base for new information.

Student Engagement 291

Student Engagement Hybrid Learning Students Participation 291

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

My doctoral research focused on the multidimensional motivational construct of teacher engagement in blended learning environments. This is a sentiment I’ve repeatedly heard this year as I work with educators who are teaching online, on hybrid schedules, or juggling the demands of the concurrent classroom.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I always imagined that as my experience with teaching grew, I would be able to better motivate students and help focus my students. It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

Attention 122

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 122

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Key points: Gamification can help engage students when they might otherwise lose motivation Engaged students are 2.5 The more you treat education as a game, the more likely students are to pay attention and be engaged in class. Many of the best educators use review tools like Kahoot, and Jeopardy!

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Licensure exams, if rigorous and aligned to the science of reading, can serve as an important guardrail for making sure teachers have this critical knowledge. The majority of states (29 states and the District of Columbia) use “weak” tests that do not signal whether teachers have the knowledge they need to teach students to read.

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Reading Teaching Exams Teachers 290

eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. The dynamic nature of PBL maintains student interest and motivation. Needless to say, these things can be highly disruptive and undermine our ability to manage the class.

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Critical Thinking Middle School Middle School Lecturing 311

eSchool News

JULY 23, 2024

Canva saved me so much time and money because I was able to create classroom posters and decorative motivational quotes that went with my positivity theme for 5th grade. They are attention-grabbing thanks to the graphic resources I can customize to each slide in the presentation.

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Education Communication Grades Motivation 271

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Each factor plays a role in shaping various academic achievements: Prior knowledge of the subject matter Motivation and engagement Learning goals Learning strategies Prioritization of the course Outside responsibilities College students take a course for various reasons, for example, to meet a major or minor requirement or for personal interest.

Motivation 111

Motivation Instructors Lecturing Feedback 111

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

I always imagined that as my experience with teaching grew, I would be able to better motivate students and help focus my students. It turns out that with each passing year, I’m finding it increasingly difficult to capture and hold a student’s attention and focus during my lessons. 2020, Orhan and Beyhan, 2020).

Attention 111

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 111

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2022

If communities take advantage of opportunities to close the relevance gap, students can move from disengaged to motivated, with a deeper understanding of their own natural talents and their potential for fulfilling, long-term, in-demand careers, according to the paper.

Students 291

Students Learning Student Engagement Critical Thinking 291

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. The dynamic nature of PBL maintains student interest and motivation. Needless to say, these things can be highly disruptive and undermine our ability to manage the class.

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Students Critical Thinking Lecturing Culture 285

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

Central to this approach are the hooks – strategies that captivate students’ attention and foster excitement for learning. The Safari Hook Scavenger hunts and interactive challenges offer exciting avenues for students to apply their knowledge while fostering independent learning and problem-solving skills. in teaching.

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Teaching Gamification Critical Thinking Student Engagement 290

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Questions such as these can help guide the conversation: What do you need to learn about AI, and how can you gain that knowledge? Their input is vital in order to guide schools toward practices that will be the most beneficial to students. What potential benefits and challenges might AI present to teaching and learning?

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Intelligence Education Ethics Lecturing 339

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

We are no longer keepers and passers of knowledge as we once were. The answer is not necessarily a new one, but it is a concept that needs more attention from educators in our modern-day classrooms: Design thinking. Design thinking also has a positive impact on the overall motivation and engagement of students.

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 297

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

But TikTok, and social media more broadly, continues to capture curiosity and attention, and it’s not all just dance videos–Indiana science teacher @ChemteacherPhil commands an audience of more than 3 million followers on the app. Is there a lesson in that? There’s an entire school of thought on this.

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Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 303