k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

This approach respects the natural constraints of attention and working memory. This kind of adaptive, data-driven support is helping students achieve more in less time, making learning both more effective and more motivating.

Education

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

Enhancements to the Student Experience: A new, motivating, age-appropriate learning environment has been created to engage upper elementary learners. Improved Teaching and Learning Supports: New professional learning and supports for PreK-5 educators are now available to maximize classroom impact.

Reading

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Designed to work alongside innovative product enhancements announced earlier this year , these new resources empower teachers to create personalized learning experiences with inquiry, excitement, and exploration that will hold students attention while challenging them academically.

Laboratory

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

This kind of structured choice fosters agency and motivation. I view every classroom interaction as a form of dialogue, and I pay close attention to how students respond emotionally and behaviorally to what and how we teach.

Interdisciplinary

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.

Critical Thinking

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.

Critical Thinking

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation.

Language

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

They may also feel underprepared for reading focused non-fiction, informational texts that require more attention than a casual fiction novel. While it doesnt level the field completely, and there are still students that do not read, those that do have shared they appreciate the time to refocus their attention on the coursework.

Instructors

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

This kind of structured choice fosters agency and motivation. I view every classroom interaction as a form of dialogue, and I pay close attention to how students respond emotionally and behaviorally to what and how we teach.

Interdisciplinary

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. This is the moment when a language instructor must pivot, shifting the classroom dynamic to reignite curiosity and motivation.

Language

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. According to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 60% of students report feeling bored during class, a clear indication that the traditional model often fails to capture attention.

Hybrid Learning

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.

Academic Integrity

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. 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. This perspective is not inherently bad. Ironic processes of mental control.

Teaching

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. 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. This perspective is not inherently bad. Ironic processes of mental control.

Teaching

Primary Punch

JANUARY 2, 2021

As most SLPs know games are super motivating to my students. Games encourage spontaneous requesting, taking turns, joint attention, following directions, and a range of pragmatics skills. I rounded up a collection of wintery board or card games too. Typically we take a turn practicing our goal and then playing the game.

Language

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

In the absence of systematic research, attention has turned to states like Tennessee and districts like Weakley and Putnam where kids have climbed out of an academic hole. Both Weakley and Putnam teachers use that data to pinpoint which skills they need to review with which students and to keep kids motivated.

Testing

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?

Teachers

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?

High School

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

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.

Skills

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

They and their staff are able to open up spaces to find out what students are passionate about and interested in and then leverage those opportunities to create cultures of intrinsic motivation. How are your school leaders doing with these: which are they doing well and which could use some more attention? Related Posts.

Schools

eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2017

To keep attention from wandering and to build up stamina, use a highly visible digital timer. Promoting reading with easy badges that students can earn is a powerful motivator. Sometimes, using something many students like (technology) can get them inspired to read. Use a digital timer. Create challenges and badges.

Reading

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2019

Our motivation is what drives us to meet our goals and losing that sense of determination can leave us feeling confused and frustrated. There are many reasons for motivation depletion—it can be circumstantial, environmental, emotional, mental, etc. Here are six easy tips to help you find your motivation if you think you’ve lost it: 1.

Motivation

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.

Motivation

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2018

So how can you best think about teaching these critical skills to your students with learning and attention issues? I would start by considering common characteristics of kids with learning and attention issues, and think about which of these characteristics could present challenges when teaching digital citizenship.

Attention

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2019

They use reward charts and other external incentives, like class parties or the promise of points, to entice students to follow directions, complete assignments, and pay attention in class. However, external motivators, as Daniel Pink articulates in his book Drive , are not effective long-term. Organizational Dynamics , 18 (3), 19-31.

Teaching

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.

Motivation

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

This cloud reflects the actions or physical manifestations of engagement, such as learning, interest, participation, focus, attention, and curiosity. However, to truly understand teacher engagement we must understand the dimensions of this motivational construct. What is teacher engagement?

Blended Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2024

The psychology of motivation: Strategies for engaging students Motivation plays a role not only in people’s choice to get involved in their goals but also in their behavior, persistence, and, ultimately, success. What does motivation entail? Experts in psychology have comprehensively analyzed motivation.

Motivation

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. You keep going.

Gamification

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2022

When adults pay attention to children’s verbal and non-verbal play, we are, in a way, able to look into their subconscious, and with some careful observation and analysis, gain a pretty good idea about what they are experiencing in their daily lives. Empathy grows from the seeds of play. Fortunately, play is a natural human behavior.

Attention

eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

In a study of 554 teachers in the San Antonio area, 60 percent said that students turned in assignments less frequently during distance learning, and 65 percent believed that there were significantly fewer lessons that grabbed the attention of students.

Gamification

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

In a study of 554 teachers in the San Antonio area, 60 percent said that students turned in assignments less frequently during distance learning, and 65 percent believed that there were significantly fewer lessons that grabbed the attention of students.

Gamification

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.

Assignments

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2022

students struggled with anxiety, depression, trauma, or attention issues that made it difficult to focus, stay motivated, and learn. Early intervention is critical, or else these students can spiral quickly into avoidance and loss of motivation. anxiety, ADHD, depression, lack of motivation, and trauma).

Motivation

eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

.” Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students.

Schools

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2017

Then as my energy wanes, I can shift my attention to the easier to accomplish tasks. #2 At first, I felt guilty taking this time for myself when I had so much to do, but I almost always return to my work feeling more motivated, inspired, and focused. 2 Designate two specific times during the day to check email and social media.

Coaching

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.

Blended Learning