Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

It is important, perhaps now more than ever, to recognize the inherent strengths of each parent while also tending to their personal development, motivation and self-actualization. Our approach is rooted in the belief that all families, regardless of circumstance, can benefit from coaching. We are—thankfully—not alone in this belief.

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Coaching Local Government Beliefs Schools 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s common to hear well educated adults declare themselves “not a math person,” sometimes proudly. This belief is wrong. Change the belief that mathematical ability is inborn, focusing on parents’ attitudes and how they are communicated to children. Engage Intrinsic Motivation. Sample activities.

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Math Beliefs STEM Motivation 166

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Berry and Heick both offer continua of student investment in learning from outright rebellion to the compliant student “doing school” to the fully invested student with agency over their learning and intrinsic motivation to pursue growth. Missing just one of these variables can have a profound impact on engagement.

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Student Engagement Learning Students Middle School 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Educators and the educational system often harbor implicit biases that result in lower expectations for Black students, particularly in mathematics. This lack of belief in Black students’ potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where students internalize these low expectations and perform accordingly.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 213

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Leaders like Du Bois and Love have shaped my belief that I can lead a school where students love themselves and succeed academically. One component of this rubric is dedicated to assessing the classroom environment and within this component, there’s something special we look for — we call it “belief and belonging.”

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 189

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

What beliefs or values do you hold that may show up in unproductive ways during instruction? These questions help unearth potentially problematic beliefs and ideals white teachers may hold in hopes that they will use these reflections to build environments where students feel safe to engage with triggering or emotionally charged content.

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Beliefs Culture Education Students 187

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education. When making the switch to a modern learning environment, it can be easy for K–12 schools to get distracted by the impressive array of new education technology and lose sight of the reason to adopt these tools in the first place: to improve student outcomes.

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Education Schools STEM Beliefs 166

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Over the summer, academics debated the impact of growth mindset, the belief that one’s intelligence can be developed with hard work and effort, and whether it can move the needle on academic performance. Students see evidence that their hard work is paying off and buy into the growth-oriented belief system.

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Beliefs Failure Feedback Math 162

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A central belief of Lakota people, and many other Indigenous communities, is the idea that we are all related. I also recognize that is not the case for the majority of educators in classrooms.

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Beliefs Motivation Classroom Management Culture 184

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

One might assume that, since focus and productivity were not easy by-products of this environment, anyone experiencing it would come out with a firm belief in the value of walls. Fifth graders threw pencils, and sometimes shoes, over the bookshelves and into my classroom. But I did not. Instead, I learned to embrace the open classroom.

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Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School History 165

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Hearing this context profoundly changed how I viewed Marcus’ motivations and aspirations. Purpose dives deeper than mindsets—it taps into someone’s core motivation for choosing a path. To more effectively reach students like Marcus, educators would be wise to lead with curiosity when inquiring into students’ aspirations.

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Motivation Schools Students Middle School 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It’s the belief that the process of creating is what teachers should be assessing, rather than the final product. Prioritizing a Student-Driven Classroom Many times, if I go into a classroom and tell students what to do, they won’t get excited or motivated to do the project.

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Failure Testing Beliefs Middle School 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The "modest positive effect" on credits earned is not necessarily caused by the use of OER, cautions Rebecca Griffiths, principal education researcher at SRI education. The theory that those savings may help eliminate barriers for students is one of the big motivators for efforts like the Achieving the Dream initiative.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Participation 191

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

Personally, I have gained an incredible sense of purpose over the last year and that motivates me a great deal. I’ve realized that as an educational leader, I have a responsibility to get loud and speak up for future generations, starting with today’s young people.

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Counselling Teachers Schools Middle School 194

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

But in the end, the results almost beggared belief, according to those at the college. Ultimately, argues Van Valkenburgh, the new program seems to have instilled confidence in students about their quantitative skills, as well as motivated them to pick those skills up by grounding lessons in problems they cared about solving.

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Math Science Teaching STEM 202

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

As more colleges face the reality of a declining traditional student population, there’s a common belief that adult students are where the growth is. But the reality is more complicated. But one particularly promising solution to engaging adult learners and increasing degree attainment is to more intentionally integrate learning and work.

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Learning Beliefs Feedback Study 213

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

The data disproved his belief: He’d only heard from female students around one-third of the time, even though they made up nearly half his class. “It So in 2014, the senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government decided to test that assumption.

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Lecturing Participation Instructors Beliefs 160

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Toxic positivity is the belief that no matter how bad a situation is, we should all have a positive mindset about it. Researcher Doris Santoro, author of “Demoralized,” explains that demoralization occurs when teachers “encounter consistent and pervasive challenges to enacting the values that motivate their work.”

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Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 217

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Consider the Company’s Beliefs Companies rarely like to say no to their customers. What makes that easy to say, though, is when a feature request goes against the core values or beliefs of the company. “We work extra hard to build trust with our users, so they know that when we can do it, we say yes.

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Feedback Beliefs Schools Motivation 139

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The limited but growing body of research on experiential learning suggests it can deliver superior educational outcomes by facilitating practice and feedback, increasing student motivation and helping students achieve higher rates of employment and wages.

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Education Learning Culture STEM 205

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

This focus on individual students requires a high level of student autonomy and intrinsic motivation—which makes growth mindset a natural complement to personalized learning. We’ve put a lot of thought into how best to define personalized learning.

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Failure Learning Achievement Essay 142

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

"Technology can empower learners to grow into the type of student who will, someday, visit a professor during office hours.". Motivated teachers learn to overcome at least some of these limitations and strive to build direct connection and engagement with their students. I used to tell them that I have all the.

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Technology Lecturing Instructors Beliefs 161

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

He was motivated, in part, by the September opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the Washington Mall, just 30 minutes away from Dominion High. At the heart of the Hispanic heritage project was Ajima’s insistent belief in the power and necessity of sharing, of communicating what you’ve done with others.

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Culture Beliefs History Students 126

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

National education leaders need to reconsider the benefits of foreign language learning if we ever hope to join the multilingual world, or access the many benefits of multilingual learning. There are persistent myths which impede student motivation to learn an additional language. Here’s some good news.

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Language Languages Education English 168

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

Seek Out Educated Conversations The people you surround yourself with can have a significant impact on your personal and career growth. Be intentional and nurture relationships with motivated friends and professionals who support your goals but who are also constructively critical.

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Students Failure Beliefs Skills 153

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One is the assumption that the pedagogy Harvard and other Ivies have always practiced—close-knit groups of students and faculty living and studying together immersively on campus—is the finest in post-secondary education , with no other approach coming close, especially not online.

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Science Secondary Education Art Beliefs 187

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2022

A teacher that does not have a firm belief in every student’s ability to achieve success cultivates a classroom culture that actively prevents learning—whether that is their conscious intention or not. Students know when teachers do not believe in them, and after a while, they too adopt that mentality.

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Teachers Culture Education Beliefs 160

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better. –Peter Evans, CEO, Xtract One Technologies This school year we will see a continued focus on nurturing 21st century skills in the classroom. The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In turn, this radical transparency will give students—and those who finance their education—access to trustworthy information and allow them to make informed enrollment and financial decisions. At a time when the needs and motivations of learners are increasingly differentiated, so too should be the programs that serve them.

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Motivation Beliefs Coaching Learning Outcomes 148

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

The tuition support was a big motivator, he says. And the message that Highsmith says he heard from the program resonated with him, too: “We want you to come and be educators.” We do it with the belief that it can be done, and we do it with the belief in the young men that we serve,” Jones says.

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Teachers Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School 184

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Keeping learners motivated and confident when faced with these cognitive challenges means connecting with learners on a personal level. Self-regulated learning: beliefs, techniques, and illusions. Optimal instructional experiences will often be difficult, frustrating, and effortful. a, Dunlosky, J., & & Kornell, N.

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Education Evaluation Failure Essay 155

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But on a country-level analysis, doing well at reading, math and science doesn’t necessarily correlate with a belief in growth mindset. In addition, he says there’s a “strong relationship growth mindset and resilience” and the data suggests it can boost motivation and reduce fear of failure. coming in 10th.

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Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 141

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2019

In addition to learning content, Richard said that students learn productive beliefs about themselves. That’s going to be motivating to see themselves as competent learners.” Learning by teaching can help improve student efficacy, confidence and communication skills.

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Teaching Learning Students Assignments 168

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The belief is that writing affords students extended opportunities to think about, manipulate, and transform ideas and reflect on their existing knowledge, beliefs, and confusions,” says Troia. Writing practice is important to ELA and content area proficiency, and is most effective when it extends directly from instruction.

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Beliefs 128

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

Good learning design also needs to be engaging, motivational and structured in the right way.”. The fundamental belief is that we should give teachers the power to create more resources, reflect on the quality of their creations, and then let them quickly iterate and improve,” says Ben-Naim. More on Smart Sparrow.

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Teachers Instructors Learning Quizzes 129

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Beyond race and gender, they’re young people, and so their beliefs, their values and their communities should be centered in the design process. That’s a huge motivation. Tanner: First we centered the students themselves in our design process. Also, because we launched in the middle of COVID, we had to look at some situational factors.

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Intelligence STEM Culture Curriculum 194

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

This week, Bergman’s efforts have found a new home in AllHere , an education technology startup that is acquiring the technology assets of EdNudge. “I want to see this built, but I don’t want to run a company,” Bergman tells EdSurge. It’s not my expertise, nor would it make sense for me to devote a lot of time to this.”

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 113