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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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? food, water, warmth, rest, and security).

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. With their advanced degrees and English-language skills, they represent a selective set of perspectives. Other observers read between the lines and discern another motivation.

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Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 156

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. Dominion has about 225 students who are English language learners (ELL), many of them from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala. zero things.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? food, water, warmth, rest, and security).

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 103

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Even automated scoring technologies, which have long been debated by composition scholars and the National Council of Teachers of English, have the potential to help students with grammar, spelling and mechanics—but they fail to provide the holistic feedback that students need to grow as writers.

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Feedback Peer Review Writing Beliefs 128

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 18, 2025

This skill is essential for setting attainable goals because they are subjective and personal, so strong goal-setting hinges on students understanding of their beliefs, values, and strengths. Then, hang a colorful bunting banner display with positive mottos from students to motivate them to give their best throughout the year.

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High School High School Teaching Counselling 81

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

LEGO Education designs standards-aligned sets for K-8 students and offers plenty of free support for teachers, including more than 400 online lesson plans —ranging in focus from computer science and English Language Arts (ELA) to robotics and coding— self-guided professional development and an online community where teachers share tips and ideas.

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Learning STEM Skills Beliefs 145

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Certain emotional states invited motivational sustained effort, while others led to relinquishment of effort. You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks. Feedback can be modulated to create encouragement and motivation, or conversely, to discourage effort.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

When we discussed their issues, you’d hear things like “That kid is a mess” and “She just doesn’t keep up with her things,” or even “He doesn’t care about school” or “She’s not motivated.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Certain emotional states invited motivational sustained effort, while others led to relinquishment of effort. You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks. Feedback can be modulated to create encouragement and motivation, or conversely, to discourage effort.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

Gardner Campbell is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. Increasingly, students are going to college with the belief that it's a pathway to a better job. He previously started Pencils of Promise, a nonprofit that has opened hundreds of schools in developing countries.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. More than 4 out of 10 college students wind up in remedial math or English courses, and those that do are even less likely than other students to finish college. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect.

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Education Learning Textbooks Instructors 218

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Additionally, student motivation is high, as they are able to track their monthly growth and celebrate successes. Emily helps students tap into their highest potential every day by meeting them where they are at with belief in them and connecting them with resources like EmpowerU to support them as a a whole person.

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Education Learning Schools Math 312

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

” This ancient form of give-and-take discourse is reportedly founded on Socrates’ belief that lecture was not an effective way to teach all students. practice using conventions of standard English grammar and general academic and domain-specific vocabulary when speaking. identify and evaluate claims and counterclaims.

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Beliefs Lecturing Critical Thinking Discussions 139

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

In fact, whatever you’re already reading in English, science or history may showcase incredible acts of resilience. Sports Reading Club - resilience, motivation. Technology Reading Club - impulse control, self motivation. Art Reading Club - self motivation. Movies Reading Club - empathy and appreciating diversity.

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Failure Motivation History Learning 134

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2017

I discovered the machines were at odds with much of what English teachers—myself included—hold dear. While even my most reluctant students saw gains in their writing and reading skills, the level of motivation in my classroom was at a flatline 0. I hated coming to work and was losing my belief that I was doing something worthwhile.

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Blended Learning Learning English Beliefs 121

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2025

Raz-Kids offers a leveled library of books in English and Spanish. DreamBox Math by Discovery Education offers a completely adaptive gamified math learning environment in both English and Spanish. Lexia and PowerUp have lessons teachers can use individually or in small groups to support student growth in literacy.

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Blended Learning Learning Quizzes Math 283

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2024

I have been incorporating them into typical English Language Arts and Social Studies high school content for several years (Piccoli 2-5). Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs.” Perhaps, eventually, our democracy could improve too? I’m reminded of wisdom reminiscent of an ancient Chinese proverb.

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Social Studies High School High School Study 278

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2025

Student motivation, students desire to take what [they see as] a risk in participating in class I don't think students are in the same place in terms of their willingness to engage. People don't want to have hypothetical discussions about issues that are really so intensely personal. They dont know how to speak up in class, he says.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While a parent has the right to guide their own childrens reading, their beliefs and prejudices should not dictate what another parent chooses for their own children. Plaintiff Mary Wood, a Chapin High School English teacher, faced a reprimand and calls for her firing after teaching Ta-Nehisi Coates memoir Between the World and Me in 2023.

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