Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

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. The first question Hattie poses is deceptively simple yet profoundly significant: Where am I going?

Feedback 363

Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Students can see and experience the relevance of what they are learning, which can have a profound impact on their motivation and comprehension. When these approaches are brought together in the classroom by a teacher, it creates an environment where students feel encouraged to test ideas, make mistakes, and ask questions.

Teaching Methods 312

Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 312

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

The foundational belief that intelligence is malleable and that each child’s “true potential is unknown and unknowable.” We challenged one another to ask deep, difficult questions and foster each other’s learning as we tried new things. Dweck, 2006). We began this work by starting with the adults.

Beliefs 279

Beliefs Ethics Culture Achievement 279

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. It’s interesting to hear how common it is for people to answer that question in finite terms — that they either have a mind for it or they don’t.

Failure 276

Failure Beliefs Math Intelligence 276

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Focus on learning more about the student’s goals and motivations, and look into potential professors before the semester starts. When trying to figure out the best major for a prospective student, focus on understanding their needs and motivations. What questions keep them up at night? million more over their entire lifetime.

Students 269

Students Beliefs Motivation Lecturing 269

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Here’s how it works: a user enters a question they want the group to consider. They then send the question directly to group members or get the ideas started by listing a few options for the group to consider. Of course, strategies to increase engagement in the classroom go beyond boosting the time students spend talking.

Teachers 332

Teachers Feedback Evaluation Intelligence 332

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Our beliefs about what is “real learning” are clouded by our own personal experiences. This has been a common question I have heard when doing AI workshops with teachers across the country. This is the most important question we should be asking ourselves: Why do we matter? AI won’t motivate a student to learn.

Quizzes 311

Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 311

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. After a semester where I threw out the syllabus, I was left with an inspiring question: How can I make my future courses more practical and still keep the academic writing and the academic requirements intact?

Teaching 278

Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 278

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

But not everyone who can read words and comprehend them sees herself as a reader—someone who seeks information through text, who can get lost in a story, who conjures up visual imagery while savoring a poem, who satisfies her curiosity by diving down the rabbit hole of her latest question/interest/passion.

Motivation 126

Motivation Beliefs Reading Assignments 126

eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

For instance, when discussing natural resources in geography, I pose a thought-provoking question: What is something you cannot live without? I pose the question: How can we identify an issue within the town of Lexington and address it while ensuring we do not contribute to urban sprawl? According to Moser et. link] Moser, K.

Interdisciplinary 237

Interdisciplinary Critical Thinking Peer Review Discussions 237

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This research was part of a yearlong study we led, examining how our sharply divergent attitudes and beliefs about climate change are shaped by news and information we encounter, curate, engage with and share. As one respondent put it in an open response question, “This is our future, and we’re watching it be destroyed.”

Beliefs 201

Beliefs Attention Students Discussions 201

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the midst of his presentation, he posed a question to the group that deeply resonated with me: Are you comfortable leading a school where kids love themselves but fail academically? Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr.,

Beliefs 189

Beliefs Essay Schools Students 189

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The question is: How do I empower our white teachers to be their most authentic selves while creating culturally responsive experiences for our students of color? Questions to ponder in reflection may include: What were your initial reactions to the passage? What came up for you as you read about the character’s experience or feelings?

Beliefs 187

Beliefs Culture Education Students 187

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This lack of belief in Black students’ potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where students internalize these low expectations and perform accordingly. Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks.

Math 213

Math Beliefs Students Failure 213

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Looking at these projects, it’s clear that some kids have been so motivated to make beautiful graphs that they’re going out to learn math that most kids don’t learn until college,” says von Oy. “We Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such.

Art 218

Art Math Curriculum Beliefs 218

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

I started my first college advising session with Marcus with the same question I always asked: “If you could do anything after high school knowing that you would be successful, financially secure, and your friends and family would support you, what would you do?” Ask exploratory questions. His speed of response surprised me.

Motivation 167

Motivation Schools Students Middle School 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When I taught first grade, we started every day with a community circle, where each student was given the opportunity to respond to a daily question or prompt. A central belief of Lakota people, and many other Indigenous communities, is the idea that we are all related.

Beliefs 184

Beliefs Motivation Classroom Management Culture 184

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

I often describe how in its day the idea of using television to get children reading was considered “crazy” and experts questioned how this would encourage kids to read books. Yet Reading Rainbow quickly proved to be more than a summer program and instantly captured young audiences’ attention and motivated children to read.

Reading 190

Reading Elementary School Elementary School Beliefs 190

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.

Lecturing 160

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. 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 217

Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 217

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

During this practice and review time, the teacher circulates, answering questions or providing individual support as students complete practice problems. They tend to be our most motivated and engaged learners. If students aren’t grasping the material, we must question the effectiveness of racing through lessons.

Math 195

Math Attention Beliefs Knowledge 195

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).

Syllabus 132

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

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.

Math 202

Math Science Teaching STEM 202

k12 Digest

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

What drives your passion for education and leadership, and how do you stay motivated? My passion stems from a deep belief in the power of education to transform lives. Leadership, to me, is about service, and when I focus on supporting others, I find endless motivation. What do you love the most about your current role?

Students 130

Students Motivation Ethics Beliefs 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2019

I have recently become very interested in these questions because the Protégé Effect is something we are now trying to leverage at the nonprofit I work for, PowerMyLearning , which strengthens the triangle of student-family-teacher relationships. That’s going to be motivating to see themselves as competent learners.” Why is this?

Teaching 168

Teaching Learning Students Assignments 168

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? Here are a few trends I see from working with teachers and students.

Schools 337

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

There’s a bigger question about the role design can play in advancing education. That’s an important question, because I often forget to situate that. We put all those people and skills together in a room with a question, and say, “With your creative genius, find what matters and design a direct response for it.”.

Multidisciplinary 168

Multidisciplinary Schools Questions Beliefs 168

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

Be intentional and nurture relationships with motivated friends and professionals who support your goals but who are also constructively critical. 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.

Students 153

Students Failure Beliefs Skills 153

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

On the contrary, trustees may already question the academic wisdom of shrinking from the digital economy when nearly all of industry underwent virtual transformation long ago. Our motivation was to serve students where they are—which is online—a different population than our traditional undergrad.”

Science 187

Science Secondary Education Beliefs Art 187

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.

Culture 126

Culture Beliefs History Students 126

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 141

Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 141

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2023

Yes, ChatGPT could write it and it might look a little like this: My philosophy of teaching is centered on the belief that all students have the potential to learn and succeed. Questions or thoughts to consider: Does your philosophy align with the practices you employ? What is working? What is not working?

Teaching Philosophy 111

Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Universal Design 111

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Third, these new models, which are predicated on the belief that students should not carry significant debt, must consider the many forms of financing now available. At a time when the needs and motivations of learners are increasingly differentiated, so too should be the programs that serve them.

Motivation 148

Motivation Beliefs Coaching Learning Outcomes 148

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).

Syllabus 103

Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 103

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2016

We will use it to address the question: Is handwriting or keyboarding faster? I post each step on the Smartscreen or whiteboard and show students how our experiment will work: Ask a question : Is handwriting or keyboarding faster? This is an epiphany and a motivator that learning to keyboard is worth the effort.

Beliefs 102

Beliefs Writing Essay Testing 102