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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Plus, when they make mistakes, they’re motivated to try new approaches to test theories. For math, measurement and geometry activities like building models or plotting data can turn abstract numbers into something students can visualize and manipulate.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

. “This course follows a high level curriculum developed in my department to prepare Stanford undergraduate students for math, data science, AI, engineering, and all other quantitative disciplines. They must also submit a recommendation letter from a math instructor, and be under the age of 18.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2023

Seeing their growth and knowing what is coming may keep your child’s attention and enthusiasm high. If your kid likes dinosaurs, you might make a math worksheet where they count and add little plastic dinosaurs. If your kid likes dinosaurs, you might make a math worksheet where they count and add little plastic dinosaurs.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

National program uses famed sports video game to ignite students’ interest in math and science. EA SPORTS Madden NFL: Football by the Numbers, a comprehensive educational initiative, is an initiative designed to engage students in grades 5-9 with science and math content through an interactive digital learning game.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Texthelp ®, a leading education technology company focused on helping learners of all ages and abilities improve their reading, writing, and math skills, today announced the launch of WriQ ®, a cloud-based writing assessment and achievement tool. It highlights a number of key challenges for U.S. The report analyzed U.S.

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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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. Eighth grade math was a different story. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Now reread the same cartoon, substituting “math” for “reading.” As a society ever more reliant on technology and STEM-based careers, we must shatter the myth that math skill is inborn and reinforce that it is the result of intention and practice. But it’s the earlier years that most need our attention. But it should!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When I was in school, I wasn’t particularly quick at picking up new math concepts or doing mental math. Every year I have a handful of students who have trouble getting motivated at the beginning of the day. She happened to be in a class with many students who often needed support with motivation.

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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 281

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

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

But the tools were also targeted at math teaching. Yet so far these tools have not really affected K-12 math classrooms. In math classes before digital technology, he says, it was actually rare to write out how you think about a problem at length. Instead, math classes involve sketching a lot of graphs and shorthand.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The concept hinges on the idea that students complete a project on a single topic–ideally, they choose their own topics to promote interest and motivation–and, in doing so, dive deeply into that topic, ultimately becoming an expert on it. PBL encourages “What if?”

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Writing Grades Motivation Attention 300

eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2022

Accompanying digital resources – including classroom activities, a video topic series, and educator guides – align to learning standards across multiple disciplines including English language arts, math, business, and financial literacy. “We link] .

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

This student often found it challenging to stay focused and motivated with conventional paper-based tasks. For example, I designed a series of math problems using colorful drag and drop elements that allowed the student to manipulate objects visually to solve equations. Classkick’s instant feedback feature played a crucial role.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

They complete tasks quickly, are often motivated to dig deeper into a subject, and are prone to boredom if not sufficiently challenged. These are perfect for grabbing attention as a hook into a unit of study, a brain break, or even a rainy-day recess!

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2025

The question on everyones mind is why, and it would seem the answer is a complex one, with myriad factors named, including:absenteeism, overuse of devices, teacher burnout, student behavior, lack of motivation, lack of parental involvement, poverty, continuing effects of virtual learning, misuse of funding, teacher shortages, and lack of resources.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

One morning, my students were getting ready for a math test and working through a set of review problems. Now, he was rewarding himself by attentively drawing cartoon cityscapes all over his paper. For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

-based developer of instructional and assessment materials has acquired San Francisco startup Motion Math , which offers a suite of nine educational games focused on math and problem-solving. His company’s flagship digital product, i-Ready , is a K-8 math and literacy tool used by nearly 15 percent of K-8 students across the country.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 3, 2024

Not every student enjoys the same task, so giving them options is critical to maximizing their motivation and focus in a lesson. Simultaneously, choice boards free teachers to focus their time and attention on working with individual students or small-group instruction, providing more personalized support or challenge.

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Blended Learning Math Exams Attention 195

EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

For students who do poorly on math word problems, a teacher may need to address not only their algebra skills but also their reading comprehension. . What motivates one child to stay quietly seated may discourage a classmate. . Motivational systems are not about giving everyone a trophy. by Emily Levitt.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. For a student, individual attention can make the difference between effectively developing skills and just coasting along.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention. High school students often have a mix of core subjects, such as math, science, and English, along with electives or advanced placement (AP) courses. Setting short-term rewards for achieving study goals can keep you motivated.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Lego Education hosted a breakfast panel on ISTE Day #1 devoted to one of the most perplexing post-pandemic problems for schools—how to keep kids’ attention. Carlanda Miller, also known as The Magical Teacher, shared her approach to motivating students and creating a joyful learning environment. Karen Cheser, Ed.D. ,

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

This isn’t really about math. Nate and I collaborate regularly to support students as math learners, and together we’ve developed a kind of system of strategies — some that apply to all students, others only needed for a select few. On those days, I would go over and give him some attention. Some days we would talk.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2018

It is deemed by some as a way to inspire and motivate students, tailor instruction to meet student needs, and scale instruction with the support of technology. Examples: literacy (decoding, foundational writing skills, vocabulary) and math (symbolic number, arithmetic fact retrieval and mathematical flexibility).

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Learning Motivation Assignments Science 163

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Like gaming, learning math requires grit and persistence—cornerstones of growth mindset—and is grounded in problem solving, flexible thinking, and pattern recognition. The same kind of tenacity is crucial when learning math. In contrast, many of our math students have become paralyzed at the mere thought of making a mistake.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB, an education and consulting research firm, and his colleagues have found that students entering college now will likely struggle the most in math.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The content associated with a personalized experience is also often limited to a narrow set of academic areas like math or literacy. math, literacy, science, social studies, foreign language, art). Exposure to abuse, neglect, or instability affect areas of the brain responsible for memory and attention.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. Stanton-Salazar (2011) describes “institutional agents” as non-kin, “high-status” individuals who can both increase motivation and access to resources.

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Skills Schools Motivation Study 214

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

For those who can, it’s become abundantly clear that grades alone are insufficient to motivate learning. But in addition to being an important outcome, learner agency may also be an undervalued resource for schools, especially when they have less control over how to structure students’ time and attention.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

Many of them have a low tolerance for frustration—but the same kid who gives up after trying a math problem once will watch Super Mario fall into a hole a dozen times and try again a thirteenth time to get it right. I thought, if I could identify what motivated them during play, I could tap into that during learning. Why is that?

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Audiobooks can be used with adolescent readers to improve their reading fluency, expand their vocabulary, develop their comprehension and increase their motivation to interact with books.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Yet Reading Rainbow quickly proved to be more than a summer program and instantly captured young audiences’ attention and motivated children to read. One of JEP’s programs is known as USC ReadersPlus, which mobilizes work-study students to provide one-on-one reading and math instruction to K-6 students in nearby Title 1 schools.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Bolstered by his trademark energy and enthusiasm, along with educator resources from Statistics in Schools (SIS), he's motivating students to learn about statistical literacy, data analytics, interpreting maps and the overall significance of the census. It was cool to hear them react to the math they did. Everything was well prepared.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Charter schools educate six percent of America’s children, but get an outsized amount of attention , pro and con. The Success Academy network in New York City is among the most controversial, and attention-getting, charters. That’s by test scores, of course, in English and math. In Washington, D.C.,

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