Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

I am concerned about the impact that the imbalances in education have on teacher engagement and job satisfaction. I know firsthand the toll that the imbalances caused by traditional workflows in education can have on a teacher. First, I do not want the teacher to do the lion’s share of the work in the lesson.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Beliefs 521

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers. We would conclude each class with an observation/ feedback session, allowing the pre-service teachers to share their experiences and learn from each other.

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 280

eSchool News

MAY 11, 2020

And as educators seek to understand students from a motivational and psychological point of view, grit pays an important role. So far, the best idea has been the growth mindset—the belief that ability to learn isn’t fixed, that it can change with your effort,” Duckworth says during her talk.

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Beliefs Students Motivation Study 341

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

They are distant during class, uninterested in engaging with the material, and their beliefs confirmed every time they get a question wrong – “I can’t do math.” How can teachers combat this belief? Picture this: a student enters your classroom, a negative attitude at the ready. Make math relevant.

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Culture Math Beliefs Achievement 297

eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2025

Boosting student achievement Preventing teacher burnout Closing equity/access gaps Supporting student mental health Δ To help students truly thrive, schools must go beyond emotional support and daily well-being; they need a more comprehensive approach that fosters a clear sense of purpose, direction, and meaning in both school and life.

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Students Counselling Beliefs Achievement 158

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2022

WILMINGTON, DE – August 4, 2022 – A new survey reveals that while teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on them in the classroom. Nearly 60 percent of teachers said that the pandemic impacted their students’ motivation to learn.

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Teachers Beliefs Motivation Learning 243

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 103

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2019

Teachers, school counselors, and school leaders impact student social-emotional learning (SEL) to the degree that they transform each student’s mindset by empowering the self of the student. SEL is more than simple observable changes in behavior or short-term boosts to motivation.

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Beliefs Motivation Achievement Teachers 275

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Personalized learning defines a learning experience for the student and teacher that is intrinsically motivated and student empowered/owned. True personalized learning occurs when the student is a partner with the teacher, not only in student voice and choice, but a partner in content and curriculum creation as well.

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Beliefs Learning Students Motivation 333

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 motivation doesn’t lend itself to easy answers or surefire solutions. It’s hardly a new subject.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As novice sixth grade math and English teachers, weve learned to approach our mid-year benchmark assessments not as final judgments but as tools for reflection and growth. A growth mindset is the belief that abilities grow through effort and persistence. This mindset shapes how we view data.

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Interdisciplinary English Math Failure 308

eSchool News

JULY 5, 2024

. — MIND Education , an organization dedicated to ensuring that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world’s most challenging problems, today released the results of its annual ST Math Teacher Survey, conducted by MIND Research Institute, its social impact organization specializing in education and neuroscience research.

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Math Education Beliefs Motivation 264

eSchool News

MAY 11, 2018

And as educators seek to understand students from a motivational and psychological point of view, grit pays an important role. So far, the best idea has been the growth mindset—the belief that ability to learn isn’t fixed, that it can change with your effort,” Duckworth says during her talk.

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Beliefs Students Motivation Study 273

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Instead of labeling them bad, the teacher sees them as a work in progress. Instead of giving up or resorting to punishment, the teacher becomes a coach and mentor, guiding the students toward better choices and showing them the good within them. It means being patient, persistent, and unwavering in our belief in their potential.

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Beliefs Motivation Coaching Writing 281

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2018

Make sure all teachers are becoming their students’ reading cheerleaders throughout the day. Motivation in class and the hallways, through notes, and over announcements will give students the boost they need to start believing in themselves. Be a reading cheerleader. Build students’ self-esteem.

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Reading Beliefs Culture Motivation 274

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

K-12 teachers, counselors, and other front-line educators all need an effective framework with a set of tools to assess, intervene, and empower our students to see and achieve their own unique potentials, whether in the classroom, guidance counseling sessions, student orientation, or community service opportunities.

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Achievement Counselling Beliefs Students 263

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Unfortunately, says Guthrie, students’ reading motivation is often "shockingly low." After spending 45 years studying how to motivate and engage students, Guthrie has learned that the secret to developing successful readers lies in understanding the right—and wrong—ways to motivate them. Not the books and the content.

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Motivation Reading Beliefs Grades 129

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 motivation doesn’t lend itself to easy answers or surefire solutions. It’s hardly a new subject.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Key points: Students who feel supported feel empowered to learn and achieve 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation Expanded learning can improve student well-being For more on student achievement, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they dont.

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Failure Math Achievement Beliefs 296

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2022

Students of all races, genders, religions, languages, abilities, interests, and beliefs should have opportunities to have affirmative literary experiences, where they see themselves reflected in the books they’re reading. Such access increases motivation, which is likely to have a positive impact on reading comprehension.

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Accessibility Beliefs Disabilities Students 255

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

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. How could it impact education? And we’re already seeing it.

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Failure Beliefs Math Intelligence 276

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

The foundational belief that intelligence is malleable and that each child’s “true potential is unknown and unknowable.” Our mantra through this work has been “the relentless belief that every child has an unlimited capacity to learn.” We needed to foster a growth culture that fostered high expectations and support for the whole child.

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Beliefs Ethics Achievement Culture 278

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

As a parent, guidance counselor, or teacher, you can help students navigate college majors by doing a little research of your own. Focus on learning more about the student’s goals and motivations, and look into potential professors before the semester starts. What questions keep them up at night?

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Students Beliefs Motivation Lecturing 270

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Yes, TikTok has become the new American pastime of millions and public enemy number one of many teachers, parents, and some lawmakers across the country. Meanwhile, 80 percent of teachers across the nation are reporting critically low student engagement, signifying a lack of connection with the material, the methodology, or both.

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Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 315

eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2025

Despite this growing belief, 97 percent of surveyed teachers say they lack the necessary resources to integrate emerging technology like AI and concepts like entrepreneurship into their curriculum. public middle and high school teachers. The survey also revealed a range of teacher concerns about AI in education.

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STEM Ethics Beliefs Plagiarism 214

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

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Sometimes self-confidence and the belief in one’s self as a reader gets waylaid by a less than ideal reading environment, such as parents who don’t read at home or classroom instruction in reading that centers on worksheets rather than rich texts. Students need a support system to bolster self-belief.

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Motivation Beliefs Reading Assignments 133

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

walked into his first teacher education course at Clemson University, he experienced a shock. public school teachers (men overall compose 24 percent). Outside of class, he belonged to a brotherhood of fellow teachers-in-training, all of them members of a longstanding leadership development program known as Call Me MISTER. “It

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Teachers Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School 194

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’ve learned leadership is about using the privilege of our position to build collaborative teams of talented and motivated individuals who can help us stay ahead of any problems and drive innovation that brings impactful change.

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STEM Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School 295

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Culture is the collective beliefs and commitments that enable individuals, who might otherwise only be loosely connected, to rally around an effort. The best way to obtain teacher buy-in is by incorporating teacher voice from the onset. Plan systems to motivate positive choices. Conduct a school culture audit.

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Culture Beliefs Schools History 189

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

The teachers and counselors in my school have been working harder than ever it seems, but despite our best efforts, the effects of the past two years are palpable. Personally, I have gained an incredible sense of purpose over the last year and that motivates me a great deal.

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Counselling Teachers Schools Middle School 201

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Free AI tools out there, from large language models like ChatGPT to image generators like Bing Image Creator, mean that every student (depending on age) can leverage AI to help them complete whatever learning tasks the teacher has given them. Our beliefs about what is “real learning” are clouded by our own personal experiences.

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Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 311

eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2018

And as educators seek to understand students from a motivational and psychological point of view, grit pays an important role. So far, the best idea has been the growth mindset—the belief that ability to learn isn’t fixed, that it can change with your effort,” Duckworth says during her talk.

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Beliefs Students Motivation Study 218

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

This might look like having students move through stations with their groups, including one station using a device and one station meeting with the teacher. We know from research that choice increases students interest and ownership of learning, leading to more motivation to complete work (Flowerday and Schraw, 2000). & Schraw, G.

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Blended Learning Learning Assignments Beliefs 253

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. Therefore, teachers can help students meet the physical activity recommendations by incorporating movement breaks in the classroom” ( Get The Facts: Movement Breaks in the Classroom Grades K-5 , 2023). .

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Beliefs Classroom Management Reading Elementary School 239