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. Crompton, et al.)

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Currently serving as the school leader in Vietnam, he brings over a decade of experience in school leadership, teacher training, and educational transformation. Nam has received multiple international accolades, including the Top 50 Global Teacher Prize Finalist and the Asia Educator of the Year Award.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

As scholar-teachers, we know that the habit of reflectioncan be a powerful tool for workplace learning and performance, which can separate high-performance professionals from mediocre ones. Thus, I paid attention and reflected during the action in order to construct adjustments, while doing hybrid-teaching at the same time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. What innovations might redefine the learning environment?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

With large conference seating, teachers may find it hard to be locked in the middle of the square. Editable Classroom Seating Chart Template for Classroom Management by Teachers Resource Force Grades: PreK-12th Design your classroom like a pro with this editable seating chart template. You can also modify this shape as needed.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Use SEL check-in strategies to check up on struggling kids in your class who seem less interested in the instruction, including teacher-to-student journals for learners to keep you up to date on their lives. And if you can incorporate their phones and/or electronics into the lesson, you’ll get a lot more students paying attention!

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen. A classroom grounded in presence and care is one where these needs are met for both students and teachers. Psychology Teacher Network. 2023, August 29).

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen. A classroom grounded in presence and care is one where these needs are met for both students and teachers. Psychology Teacher Network. 2023, August 29).

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What do teachers find mentally stimulating about their work? What causes teachers to invest their mental energy and time resources in a task? What aspects of a teacher’s work lead them to engage in problem-solving, critical thinking, and reflection? Teachers as Architects of Learning Experiences.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction. What’s the Use of Lectures?

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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.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Attention is a so-called gateway between information and learning and is compared to a spotlight on a large stage (Keller et al.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

SAN MARCOS, Texas — As a digital media course got underway on a recent Wednesday at Texas State University, a trickle of students took their seats in one of the largest lecture theaters on campus. My goal in flying down to Texas State was to find out, what do college classes look and feel like now—especially in large lectures like this one?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Despite debate and disagreement about how to define and measure attention spans, numerous studies have put student attention spans in approximately the 10-minute range (Bradbury, 2016). Attention is a so-called gateway between information and learning and is compared to a spotlight on a large stage (Keller et al.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

There’s a news story in higher ed that’s not getting enough attention. The nation’s adjuncts are rising up. Just a few weeks ago at Rutgers University, for instance, adjuncts, grad students and others held a five-day strike over unequal treatment compared to other academic employees. Adjuncts were looking for more strident champions.

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Attention Teachers Instructors Fairness 206

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

I like to compare the teacher’s work designing learning experiences to the work of an architect. In much the same way, teachers must get to know their students. Below are three aspects of our design work that I encourage teachers to consider as they architect learning experiences for their students. #1

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

As the pandemic has forced more teaching online, plenty of instructors have been trying to figure out the best way to keep students’ attention and interest with lecture videos or Zoom sessions. Multimedia instruction has to include the instructor,” Andrew Stull, one of the authors of the study, recently told EdSurge.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Recently, a teacher posted a comment to my blog lamenting that direct instruction consumed much of the class period. Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. This is not unusual.

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Blended Learning Learning Universal Design Disabilities 545

eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. You have a toolbox of strategies from your pre-teacher service work. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. newsletters.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. You have a toolbox of strategies from your pre-teacher service work. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. newsletters. I’m New Here.

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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. Can you find it? Discuss practical applications.

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Attention Teaching Instructors Minute Papers 122

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

” Challenges with Traditional Live Instruction Traditionally, educators disseminate information in real-time, relying on lectures or mini-lessons. To overcome these limitations, teachers can identify the instruction that they would present the same way for all students and create video instruction.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Why Would a Teacher Use the Flipped Classroom Model? Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., I caution teachers not to do this.

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Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 469

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to.

Attention 122

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 122

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. Can you find it? Discuss practical applications.

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Attention Teaching Instructors Minute Papers 104

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

Gone are the days of teachers lecturing in front of students who are taking furious notes. The more you treat education as a game, the more likely students are to pay attention and be engaged in class. Students can be too easily distracted to hang on most instructors’ every word.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yes, TikTok has become the new American pastime of millions and public enemy number one of many teachers, parents, and some lawmakers across the country. Meanwhile, 80 percent of teachers across the nation are reporting critically low student engagement, signifying a lack of connection with the material, the methodology, or both.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

This is tantamount to a lecture series on anything from space exploration, artificial intelligence, or even telephone scams. All the great teachers I had growing up found ways to involve the topic they were discussing, even tangentially, into current events. Chemistry teachers demonstrated why solar power was difficult to harness.

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Skills Learning Gamification Intelligence 287

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

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. Our cognitive resources do, however, have a limit; therefore, we must always choose from the available resources that we can pay attention to.

Attention 111

Attention Students Quizzes Interdisciplinary 111

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Despite these benefits, 40 percent of teachers are incorporating play only once a week or less, and nearly half (47 percent) think they spend too much time on it. Many teachers feel they can’t easily incorporate play into the classroom, so LEGO Education created the Permission to Play kit as that first step. for LEGO Education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today, teachers and students have complete access to smartphones, tablets, or laptops in all classes. Instead, students and teachers can meet online and continue their work through files available on the cloud. For instance, it gives teachers the flexibility to create a customized approach to learning.

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Learning Styles Participation Attention Hybrid Learning 320

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But Lang admits that holding students’ attention is now harder than it’s been in the past, and he offers some practical suggestions on how to respond. We talked about his tips for holding attention during online classes, his thoughts on banning devices in the classroom and how he got into writing about teaching in the first place.

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Instructors Attention Education Lecturing 218

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. In fact, there are a number of simple methods teachers can use to spark student engagement while fostering curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking.

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Critical Thinking Middle School Middle School Lecturing 314

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. York was hooked, in part because she says her school administration simply doesn’t have the time to observe teachers while tending to several other pressing concerns. “I

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Feedback Teachers Language Languages 218

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2019

According to research , in a typical classroom lecture students will generally retain only five percent of the material presented. Today’s teachers are looking to new methods of teaching and learning to improve student engagement and achievement, including tech-based solutions like the flipped classroom.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Jasselle Cirino’s classroom might surprise those accustomed to traditional lectures. We’re teaching to use multiple parts of the brain to better engage students and retain more information,” says Cirino, a former classroom teacher now training for Reading Recovery, a nonprofit tutoring program for first-grade students.

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