Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

These questions swirled around my head like leaves blowing in the wind. I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. One example of “best” practice is the widespread popularity of SLANT—Sit Up, Listen, Ask Questions, Nod, and Track the Speaker. What was I negotiating?

Culture 189

Culture Failure Beliefs Students 189

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Amid growing demands and insufficient support, remember your why often feels like a way to shift responsibility for systemic failures onto teachers. Her work was not just a job but a mission, and she was relentless in her belief that education should be equitable for all. Together, their legacies have shaped my teaching practice.

Education 185

Education Failure Beliefs English 185

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. Sometimes we had an agenda and sometimes it was a virtual open office for teachers to show up and ask questions. In other words, the question is not “How do we get teachers to participate in professional development?”

Teachers 218

Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 218

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

Taking the time to find these individuals, critically analyze and internalize what they write, and even reach out with thought-provoking questions will pay dividends. I used to struggle with this question a lot, until I realized the answer is clear: build. Build Something You Care About School is just the beginning.

Students 159

Students Failure Beliefs Skills 159

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Girls Who Code in 2012, has strong beliefs about how the political landscape will and should affect computer science education, as well as the biggest hurdles facing those hoping to adequately educate girls on coding. We teach our girls to be perfect, and this actually generates a mindset where there’s a lot of fear around failure.

Failure 127

Failure Science Math Culture 127

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

They asked questions like, “Can I use a phrase instead of a word?” These students—many of whom had been classmates for years, who lived in similar neighborhoods and took multiple classes together—were starting to see that language impacts meaning, and that their choice of words indicated subtle and even unconscious beliefs.

Essay 168

Essay Beliefs Language Languages 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Stagnant scores breed plenty of hand-wringing and questions over the value of efforts like Common Core and investments in education reform and technology. But on a country-level analysis, doing well at reading, math and science doesn’t necessarily correlate with a belief in growth mindset. coming in 10th.

Testing 137

Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 137

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

Study 165

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 165

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Miller, a psychology professor, teaches an online introductory psych course in which she begins the discussion of motivation with these questions: “Why did you even get out of bed this morning? Although they don’t often call it self-efficacy, most teachers regularly see how beliefs about ability affect behavior.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. Questioning and Posing Problems. IB calls this ‘principled’ and ‘balanced’ Questioning and Posing Problems. Develop a questioning attitude. Being able to ask a question is the first step towards becoming an inquirer.

Critical Thinking 140

Critical Thinking Knowledge Failure Communication 140

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

After the major shifts of the Covid era, the question still remains: What’s next? For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better. You might ask questions like, “Who’s one friend you played with that you liked? The excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure.

Schools 337

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics. Participate in class: Actively engage in class discussions, ask questions, and contribute to group activities. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

Failure 98

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics. Participate in class: Actively engage in class discussions, ask questions, and contribute to group activities. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

Failure 96

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 96

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

Teachers have broken down in my office sharing that this year, they felt like failures, they felt like first year teachers all over again and that this year, they contemplated leaving the profession. I realized that to change practices at our school, we needed to change our beliefs and mindsets.

Education 191

Education Coaching Special Education English 191

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Miller, a psychology professor, teaches an online introductory psych course in which she begins the discussion of motivation with these questions: “Why did you even get out of bed this morning? Although they don’t often call it self-efficacy, most teachers regularly see how beliefs about ability affect behavior.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

In this world, would there be such a thing as failure? Imagining taking little kids who have a passion for something into school for the first time and giving them decent environments.It’s hard to imagine that those kids would not care or that you’d have a lot of failures. Who’s that good for? Who benefits? Yeah, absolutely.

Intelligence 147

Intelligence Failure Science Beliefs 147

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We should all have our personal mission and belief system, I know what I want to do and I’m not going to be sheepish about that. In the second semester, the seminar examines the scale of educational innovation, asking questions such as, “what do we do with innovation once it is built?” We should be ok with it.

Gamification 137

Gamification Game-Based Learning Art Education 137

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

I felt kind of like a failure. You're questioning a lot of things, and you're building your own belief system. That's kind of how I was after that first year of college. I felt really defeated. I didn't do well in my classes because I didn't have a clear vision. You're testing a lot of limits.

Teachers 148

Teachers English History High School 148

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

This is a question that has vexed entrepreneurship scholars for generations, and it still is a question that is relevant today (Klein & Bullock, 2006). Such a question is not limited to the field of entrepreneurship itself. Can we teach entrepreneurship? This is where a growth mindset intervention has its place.

Teaching 59

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 59

Teacher Mood

MARCH 6, 2025

A Fixed Mindset is the belief that our abilities, intelligence, and talents are set in stone you’re either born with ’em or you’re not. Contrastingly, a Growth Mindset is the belief that personal skills and abilities can be developed and improved through effort, dedication, and practice. Challenge Those Beliefs!

Beliefs 52

Beliefs Failure Feedback Students 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

Study 100

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

Increasingly, students are going to college with the belief that it's a pathway to a better job. I guess the hard question is, without accreditation, how do you ensure that this is going to be worth the time that the students are investing, and the money later, when they're paying it back?

Gamification 116

Gamification Art Beliefs Achievement 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

This is a question that has vexed entrepreneurship scholars for generations, and it still is a question that is relevant today (Klein & Bullock, 2006). Such a question is not limited to the field of entrepreneurship itself. Can we teach entrepreneurship? This is where a growth mindset intervention has its place.

Teaching 52

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 52

k12

MAY 2, 2025

How a teacher handles conflict, treats others, or responds to failure sends powerful messages to students. These everyday moments can shape a students values and beliefs in subtle but lasting ways. Great teachers foster an environment of curiosity, challenge students to think deeply, and encourage them to ask questions and explore.

Teachers 52

Teachers Education Failure Beliefs 52

Teacher Mood

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Self-efficacy , on the other hand, is a little differentits a students belief in their ability to succeed at a specific task. Id give him some guiding questions to steer him in the right direction but let him struggle a little bit. Its more about, Can I do this? rather than, Do I feel good about myself?

Students 52

Students Feedback Failure Beliefs 52

EAB

MAY 23, 2023

In doing so, it has also brought clarity to the question of which challenges are most likely to define near-term enrollment success or failure. One example is the growing belief that a four-year degree is simply career preparation.

Failure 52

Failure Beliefs Testing Study 52

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

As school leaders across the country seek to adopt social-emotional learning (SEL) as a formal part of curriculum, one question keeps surfacing: How can educators weave SEL into a day already bursting with “have-to’s” and “must-do’s”? His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate.

Failure 142

Failure Motivation History Learning 142

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

But this week a Udacity official called MOOCs “dead,” leading to questions about what that means for one of the company’s offerings (which still include free MOOCs). Udacity helped popularize the idea of offering college-level courses online to anyone for free, a format known as MOOCs (for Massive Open Online Courses).

Failure 149

Failure Beliefs Achievement Questions 149