eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose. The best thing teachers can do is start with what the students are good at and help them build up their confidence. Kids who feel brilliant at something–anything–carry that belief into their struggles.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How can teachers pull feedback into the classroom to ensure it is timely and actionable? Enhances Self-Efficacy Process feedback can bolster students’ self-belief and confidence. When they receive feedback that acknowledges their effective strategies and effort, it reinforces the belief that they can succeed.

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Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

As principal of a middle school, I meet weekly with teachers and school counselors to discuss team and department progress of our students. This can feel overwhelming and make the most positive teacher feel less enthusiastic. Against this seemingly insurmountable backdrop, we’ve come up with a way to revitalize teachers: MicroPD!

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

Great teachers have long known what research is beginning to prove: an individual’s mindset — as much, or even more so than ability — can have a profound impact on their success in school and beyond. In a recent report, 96% of teachers in the U.S. Growth mindset holds that every learner has the potential to excel.

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Failure Beliefs Math Intelligence 276

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The first thing I noticed when we returned to school after remote learning was that my conversations with teachers got real deep real fast. So I listened as teachers reflected on their time teaching online and, in my listening, I heard the common desire for authenticity and an unwillingness to return to the status quo.

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Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Some folks commented: “I have dyscalculia…When I was in the 3rd grade, my teacher yelled at me and said, 'How do you not understand this yet?!' I came to my geometry teacher at lunch for help and he told me that I was just wasting his time. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 215

eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Researchers often bemoan finding a failure in their theory. Growth mindset is the belief that one can improve one’s abilities through effort, learning, and persistence. But anomalies are actually good news because they allow researchers to say, “There’s something else going on here.” And that is what leads to better understanding.

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Study Failure Beliefs Achievement 261

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In my early years as a teacher, I would read teaching books desperately looking for bulleted lists and numbered paragraphs. I wanted a step-by-step manual on how to be a good teacher. It’s 2009, I’m a third year teacher talking to a group of ninth graders about the historical context of the novel “Of Mice and Men.”

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Beliefs Coaching History Attention 161

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. They learned about neuroscience, shared personal examples and watched videos of famous failures. Gupta, I get it.

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Beliefs Failure Feedback Math 157

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

One teacher learns that the secret to good online teaching is all in the approach. I have heard a lot of people say that they don’t think that online schooling works well because there isn’t in-person interaction between a student and their teacher. This belief is a myth.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For many teachers, the last four years have been a relentless cycle of adapting to new learning models, navigating new curriculum mandates, supporting students mental health and adjusting to heightened accountability measures. Asking teachers to remember their why must account for the realities of teaching today.

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Education Failure Beliefs English 182

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

Cardoza’s family ties to education are strong: Her mom, aunts, grandfather and other relatives were — or are currently — all teachers. Her own education experience was positive, with memorable teachers and role models along the way. My teacher was amazing. My mom's a teacher. My aunts were teachers.

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Teachers English History High School 147

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. Remnants of this practice slowly trickled into public schools as teachers switched school districts. We cannot in one breath condemn the prison-to-school pipeline and then create systems and structures that funnel to failure. What was I negotiating?

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Culture Failure Students Beliefs 187

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., Yet teachers of older students were more likely to provide direct instruction around foundational skills—for example, how to use a computer program or engage in design thinking processes—prior to engaging in making.

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Coaching Participation Failure Beliefs 180

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

A growth mindset involves two important pieces: 1) a deliberate focus on attaining growth vs. proficiency, no matter what students are working on, and 2) students’ beliefs that they have the ability to meet goals by changing how they approach new learning experiences. Similarly, teachers must consider growth mindset in their own teaching.

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Failure Learning Achievement Essay 136

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S. I asked them.

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Essay Beliefs Students Languages 168

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

It does have a clear, easy to follow organizational structure and most notably, it spells out implications—what teachers might consider doing in response to what the research says motivates students. The first implication for teachers involves the feedback they provide students. It needs to be accurate.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

It does have a clear, easy to follow organizational structure and most notably, it spells out implications—what teachers might consider doing in response to what the research says motivates students. The first implication for teachers involves the feedback they provide students. It needs to be accurate.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 109

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 134

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Failure to appreciate these points will result in personalized learning products more likely to hinder than help students. A personalized learning system must enhance the emotional and personal connection between learners and teachers, rather than obviate it. Self-regulated learning: beliefs, techniques, and illusions.

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Education Evaluation Failure Essay 158

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.

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Failure Science Math Culture 125

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. If only there were a list of surefire strategies, those tricks that always get students and teachers fired up and moving forward. But some students do get motivated for the right reasons, and often a teacher plays an influential role.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

I am an instructional coach and I teach emerging multilingual learners, but I also consider myself a practicing unlicensed teacher-therapist. For many of the teachers I’ve spoken with, this has been the most difficult year of their careers. There has been a collective struggle among teachers across the country. Is that a thing?

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Education Coaching Special Education English 190

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006). Teachers College Press. Hammond, Z.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The connecting thesis across Dunce Capital’s portfolio is Danner’s belief that the internet has made knowledge abundant, and so “the future of learning will be organized around the student, making learning convenient and equally available” to everyone, he states. Teachers weren’t comfortable with online tutors in their classroom. “I

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Education Failure Beliefs Internet 135

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

We discussed the future of education and the importance of making digital interactions between students and teachers more “human,” a concept of utmost importance right now. Through all these experiences, one that particularly resonated with me occured when we visited communications platform company Remind.

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Students Failure Beliefs Skills 153

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

We must find and support high-quality teachers so we can help them bring engaging content to students to help them see their pathway into these ever-growing sectors of the U.S. This helps our teachers strengthen their practices and participate in ongoing, reflective coaching at their own pace. This year at St.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 333

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

As a teacher in Harlem, Peter Bergman, like some of his peers, wondered what he could do to help students show up to class or do their homework on time. What he found was that the right messages, delivered at the right time, can boost attendance and reduce course failure, as results published in The Journal of Human Resources in 2019 showed.

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 108

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). There are many reflective tools and frameworks available. professional development).

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Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 116

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

What would you have students and teachers do before they get to you, instead of a paint-by-numbers approach that you say the five-paragraph represents? I am of the belief that writing can't be taught, but it can be a learned school of thought. Learning to write is a process that requires failure, that requires trying things over again.

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Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, Master Teacher, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and author of the tech thrillers, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Failure Beliefs History Intelligence 78

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.”

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. If only there were a list of surefire strategies, those tricks that always get students and teachers fired up and moving forward. But some students do get motivated for the right reasons, and often a teacher plays an influential role.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). There are many reflective tools and frameworks available. professional development).

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Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Students and teachers are learning to innovate hand-in-hand. Often, educational innovators are teachers interested in using their expertise to create a professional brand. Michael Matera, a 6th grade world history teacher in Milwaukee, used his expertise in gamification to write a top selling book, Explore Like a Pirate.

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Art Education 135

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006). Teachers College Press. Hammond, Z.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

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? Interpreting Feedback: A Discourse Analysis of Teacher Feedback and Student Identity.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116