Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Much of that time has been focused on how to teach in online or blended learning environments. However, to make significant and sustainable long-term changes in education, our perceptions of what teaching and learning “look” like have to fundamentally shift to avoid stagnation and make progress. The teacher is the expert.

Mental Models 541

Mental Models Education Hybrid Learning Blended Learning 541

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Key points: Focus on what students can do, instead of what they cant Design thinking in the 21st century is an imperative Empathy, adaptability, and real-world readiness: Supporting students in 2025 For more on a growth mindset, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub In the words of Carol Dweck, Becoming is better than being.

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Interdisciplinary English Math Failure 305

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

One teacher learns that the secret to good online teaching is all in the approach. This belief is a myth. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. However, the difference with this story is that I was teaching online.

Teaching 189

Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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. This increased self-efficacy can lead to improved performance and a willingness to tackle more complex tasks.

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Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

My visit reinforced my belief that every student and educator has the right to learn and teach in an environment that is safe, supportive, and free from any threat of violence. And while there have been notable improvements since the Parkland tragedy, the work continues.

Culture 280

Culture High School High School Failure 280

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

These experiences and perceptions are not isolated incidents; in fact, the majority of these responses are from Black people in my community, some of which I grew up with — and now, I teach their children. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow.

Math 215

Math Beliefs Students Failure 215

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). Reflective teaching defined Reflection has many definitions. professional development). professional development).

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Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 116

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. All too often, education research falls short of giving educators on-the-ground actionable advice. And that is what leads to better understanding. captures the point.

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Study Failure Beliefs Achievement 259

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). Reflective teaching defined Reflection has many definitions. professional development). professional development).

Teaching 111

Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Most educational organizations want to improve teaching and learning by leveraging technology. Belief that education needs to change. As an example, many people believe they need to become fitter, yet are not prepared to act on this belief by actually taking part in a fitness program. Want your tech rollout to be successful?

Beliefs 190

Beliefs Failure Schools Blended Learning 190

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

The earlier indifference to virtual education was largely the result of having moved up academic ranks as part of the pre-digital generation, following the resistance of many faculty who expressed widespread hostility to online teaching as being a poor alternative to classroom instruction.

Failure 201

Failure Attention Beliefs Lecturing 201

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In my early years as a teacher, I would read teaching books desperately looking for bulleted lists and numbered paragraphs. Like many who are now teachers, I succeeded as a student in school, and I approached teaching with the same research-based mindset, implementing all the strategies I could find. I felt like a failure.

Beliefs 161

Beliefs Coaching History Attention 161

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

Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Back then, remember your why felt like a genuine invitation to reconnect with the passion that first brought me to teaching; this made it easy to hold on to purpose and to find meaning in the day-to-day connections and small victories. Together, their legacies have shaped my teaching practice.

Education 183

Education Failure Beliefs English 183

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.

Beliefs 157

Beliefs Failure Feedback Math 157

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. Although this suggests a radical way of humanizing literacy for students, we are currently fighting to make more diverse texts accessible in school libraries and as a core text when teaching, especially in schools for Black and Brown children.

Culture 187

Culture Failure Students Beliefs 187

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Instead, educators described making as an approach to teaching and learning that puts students at the center; that encourages what educators variously termed “supported failure,” “controlled struggle,” and “failing forward”; and that teaches resilience, perseverance, empathy and problem-solving. How does this look in practice?

Coaching 180

Coaching Participation Failure Beliefs 180

Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

The short answer is that a culture of learning is “a collection of thinking habits, beliefs about self, and collaborative workflows that result in sustained critical learning.” Show them Model the “thinking habits, beliefs about self, and collaborative workflows that result in sustained critical learning.” Can you cause this to happen?

Beliefs 97

Beliefs Culture Students Critical Thinking 97

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

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

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. Teaching through the pandemic—online, in person or hybrid—took a toll on teachers. In my role as listener and coach I’ve heard what teachers need.

Teachers 218

Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 218

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

It’s an approach guided by innovative teaching, and supported by tools that pace learning to student needs, tailor instruction to student preferences, and align education to student interests. This goes a long way towards taking the stigma away from failure, and encouraging children to take on the challenges that will truly make them grow.

Failure 137

Failure Learning Achievement Essay 137

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

There is a strong belief among many professors that all students need to succeed in intermediate algebra in order to progress, agrees Olga Rodriguez, a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California Higher Education Center. Yet she also cites another barrier to broadening access to college-level math: teaching style.

Exams 172

Exams English Math Instructors 172

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Teaching example: In one of my recent courses, I included a “workshop day” for students to peer review each other’s drafts of case conceptualizations.

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on June 6th, 2018 © Magna Publications.

Motivation 111

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on June 6th, 2018 © Magna Publications.

Motivation 109

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 109

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 125

Failure Science Math Culture 125

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has presented districts everywhere with new teaching and learning opportunities. For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better. Key points: What priorities will be a focal point in the new school year?

Schools 331

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 331

Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Students need to learn that when they encounter a negative belief, they must think back to their past for something that will help them believe it will turn out okay. Teach students to view setbacks through a new lens. Teach students to view setbacks through a new lens. Help them understand that failure is part of learning.

Failure 82

Failure Beliefs Students Math 82

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2015

Use ‘-teacherspayteachers’ to exclude that site from your Google searches for teaching resources. Me: If you say to a teaching staff that we’re going to try a bunch of stuff and expect most of it to fail, they’ll look at you like you’re crazy. Failure is an event not a destination. MyScript Calculator and PhotoMath.

Questions 96

Questions Failure Beliefs Grades 96

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

I sent this meme out to the faculty at my high school in May with an invitation to meet with me and reflect on this past year of teaching. I am an instructional coach and I teach emerging multilingual learners, but I also consider myself a practicing unlicensed teacher-therapist. Read more how this trauma has shaped my teaching here.

Education 190

Education Coaching Special Education English 190

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Failure to appreciate these points will result in personalized learning products more likely to hinder than help students. Self-regulated learning: beliefs, techniques, and illusions. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 20(3), 462–475. Do Learners Really Know Best? a, Dunlosky, J., &

Education 158

Education Evaluation Failure Essay 158

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on February 24, 2015. Thank Michelle Miller for just such a chapter, which appears in her new book Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology. As those of us who teach regularly discover, just putting the learning opportunities out there for students isn’t enough.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

Can we teach entrepreneurship? Still, if Entrepreneurship is an inherent trait or talent, are we wasting resources and time, both of our students and ours, by attempting to teach what cannot be taught? Entrepreneurship can be seen as a special case of the more general debate of nurture vs nature in teaching and learning.

Teaching 59

Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 59

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.

Testing 135

Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 135

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Warner has been teaching writing at colleges for more than 20 years. But then they get to college, in a first-year writing class like I've spent many years teaching, and I pull the rug out from under them and say, “Every piece of writing is a custom job. That's why I love teaching writing. There are no rules. Which I love.

Writing 167

Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

If there is a personal project or business opportunity you’ve been interested in trying out, there’s no better time than the present to dive into something new and challenging, acquaint yourself with failure, pick yourself back up again, and build the muscle needed for high-growth, lifelong learning.

Students 154

Students Failure Beliefs Skills 154

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. “My The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. But the phones aren’t the problem.

Study 164

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164