eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

myView Literacy © 2025 is a core English Language Arts (ELA) program for grades K-5 that empowers teachers and transforms students. The new edition also features streamlined student navigation, more student practice opportunities, and an increased focus on foundational writing instruction.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

It allows me to share my morning message, where each student comes up to the board to write their name, circle the letter of the day, and engage in drawing and coloring activities. This simple strategy improves the transition process, and I believe you will find it very useful for managing your classroom effectively.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We felt strongly about introducing our students to technology in the classroom. And one tool helping him on this journey is GoGuardian’s classroom management software, which his district adopted in 2018 as part of their one-to-one initiative. Davis is committed to helping his teachers reach higher levels of tech integration.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. And that's really, I think, what most teachers struggle with, because if you can't manage, you can't teach. That's why I incorporate American Sign Language. We do a read-aloud.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 8, 2021

Some call Classcraft a classroom management tool but really, it’s more about injecting excitement in your teaching and touching on the important social-emotional learning that sometimes gets forgotten. You personalize it with the most popular tools desired in classroom, all lined up at the bottom of the screen.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI technologies are designed to simulate human intelligence and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language and engaging in interactive conversation. Incorporating ChatGPT into the classroom offers a myriad of broad benefits for both educators and students.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Students started to have rich discussions about what the purpose of school should be and tapped into their creativity to find unique ways to represent their ideas through writing, images, audio or video. Earlier this year, I was facilitating a series of three lessons about classroom management.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

PreK On My Way , Designed in Collaboration with UTHealth’s Children’s Learning Institute and Yale Child Study Center, Brings Together the Latest Early Childhood Education Research in Language, Literacy, Math, and Social-Emotional Development. of the Yale Child Study Center; and Jie-Qi Chen, Ph.D. , of the Erikson Institute.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

If you’ve been tasked (or volunteered) to run this activity, here are five activities that will tech-infuse participants: Write an Ebook. Many dream of becoming an author, a journalist, or another profession that focuses on writing. write the book. Break students into writing groups. Kids are no different.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI technologies are designed to simulate human intelligence and perform tasks that typically require human intelligence, such as understanding natural language and engaging in interactive conversation. Incorporating ChatGPT into the classroom offers a myriad of broad benefits for both educators and students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Classroom Management (40). Languages (2). Writing (14). Sub-category: Classroom Management. Tips are organized alphabetically by category, with the number of tips in parentheses after the category: Assessment (7). Chromebooks (14). Differentiation (6). Edit/Format (10). Email (11). Google Apps (24).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

Pulling from concepts that already exist in pockets of the early childhood education ecosystem, as well as from programs that are deeply entrenched in other industries, the five strategies are “at once exceptionally simple and frustratingly complex,” the authors write in the report. We’re not that far off.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Learn to say “Hello” and “Thank you” in a new language (that someone speaks at your school). Write a gratitude card and give it to someone who works at the school. Write a thank you note for a mentor or someone who has influenced your life in a positive way. Help a younger child with their schoolwork.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Previously, my kids struggled with writing. Minecraft Mentors Simon Baddeley and Ben Spieldenner have partnered up to create a series of literature-rich projects that allow students to explore and interact with characters to experience language functions and themes. Today, they are more creative and confident writers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

Last school year, I made drastic changes in my classroom management system. Due to a schoolwide initiative, my behavior “clip chart” system ended, and in turn, school rules were replaced with a language that promoted growth mindset. Deak ( with corresponding app ) take the science and adapt it to a student-friendly language.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

Last week, Microsoft launched the Surface Go , designed for kids in grades 3-5, along with new classroom management tools. Zach Yeskel, product manager for Google Cloud, tells EdSurge Course Kit includes two tools. Course Kit is now available in beta mode in 44 languages. In March, Apple came out with a new 9.7

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2017

Orton-Gillingham started over seventy years ago as an instructional approach intended for those with difficulty reading, spelling, and writing, like what children experience in dyslexia. Orton was a neuropsychiatrist and a pioneer in focusing attention on reading failure and related language processing difficulties.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 17, 2024

I was in a new seventh grade language arts position, one I’d started in January after a teacher retired mid-year, so I hadn’t had enough time yet to build the relationships that are the foundation of my approach to classroom management. They think they can get away with anything, I thought. I need to be tougher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Since it began, over 100 million students have participated worldwide in over forty languages (data from HourofCode.com ). IFTTT is easy to understand and use–no programming language required. 7.3a: Choose language that expresses ideas precisely and concisely, recognizing and eliminating wordiness and redundancy.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

LEGO Education designs standards-aligned sets for K-8 students and offers plenty of free support for teachers, including more than 400 online lesson plans —ranging in focus from computer science and English Language Arts (ELA) to robotics and coding— self-guided professional development and an online community where teachers share tips and ideas.

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From the Pond

JANUARY 28, 2025

As teachers, we know the importance of incorporating movement into the classroom, especially when its quick, easy, and supports lesson goals. This playful brain break combines language skills with movement, helping students stay engaged while reinforcing listening and syllable awareness. Thats where Hey Snowman ! CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.1.2:

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I teach a course for faculty on how to write multiple-choice questions. Professors work with research-based guidelines to write multiple-choice questions for their courses, including questions that target higher-order thinking skills. wrong answers), and to write multiple-choice questions that target higher-order thinking skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Learn to say “Hello” and “Thank you” in a new language (that someone speaks at your school). Write a gratitude card and give it to someone who works at the school. Write a thank you note for a mentor or someone who has influenced your life in a positive way. Help a younger child with their schoolwork. Service Projects.

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Elementary School Elementary School Writing Culture 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 22, 2018

Now, everyone is a stakeholder in classroom management. Post a timeline of class events high on the classroom wall. Working in groups of five, each student will write five parts of a story, one for each classmate. There, they write Part two. Ask students for suggestions. Create a timeline of class events.

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Activities Schools Mobile Devices Writing 84

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Thus, an instructor’s body language is important during class. Walking throughout the classroom makes an instructor more accessible. She teaches communicative English and English for research paper writing. Timing is Everything: Using Short Student Attention Spans to Your Advantage in the Classroom”.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2016

Students can write interactive digital stories, easy-to build presentations, and more. Greeting cards and fliers are quick, authentic projects that reinforce student writing skills. Teaching languages. Teachers can write anything from words to formulae and then decode them with a voice-over. Whiteboards.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

” Sometimes we’d help them clean out their lockers or set up a system where they had to write down their homework in their assignment book and get it checked by every teacher throughout the day, and sometimes those interventions worked for a while, but looking back, I don’t remember any of it being particularly effective.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I teach a course for faculty on how to write multiple-choice questions. Professors work with research-based guidelines to write multiple-choice questions for their courses, including questions that target higher-order thinking skills. wrong answers), and to write multiple-choice questions that target higher-order thinking skills.

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Multiple Choice Questions Plagiarism Writing Questions 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2020

In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks. The acronym VARK refers to four learning modalities — Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, and Kinesthetic.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

” This involves establishing norms, values, and language around the application of social media, socialization, and learning. They are deeply involved in role-play writing communities, finding them central to their social life. Digital Literacies in the Culturally Responsive Classroom. The Write Center. in press).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2015

language skills. writing skills. It also has an audio component that reads to those who have difficulty comprehending words and spoken language. More about apps: 252 Favorite IPad Apps for your Classroom. 3 Classroom Management Apps You’ll Love. academic excellence. how to read a book. logical thinking.

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Reading Students Grades Testing 129

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2019

This includes topics like how to build your tech-infused classroom, using tech to differentiate for student needs, teaching reading and writing with tech (you can learn more about that in the class, Teaching Writing with Tech ), and favorite digital tools. Teach Writing with Tech. Teach Writing with Tech.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2017

It’s adaptable to more than 120 languages and scalable to small groups or large schools. The most popular plugins with schools include: Student blogs to encourage writing, collaborating, and perspective-taking. Peer review of student writing to encourage collaboration and perspective-taking. It’s free.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

In these situations, it is important to analyze who is allowed in the space, what language is being used, and whether the organization values lived experiences as well as school-based knowledge. Activities such as singing, dancing, and writing give you creative outlets to fight imposter syndrome. Practice joy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

This includes topics like how to build your tech-infused classroom, using tech to differentiate for student needs, teaching reading and writing with tech (you can learn more about that in the class, Teaching Writing with Tech ), and favorite digital tools. Teach Writing with Tech. Teach Writing with Tech.

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Authentic Assessment Plagiarism Internet Writing 74

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Thus, an instructor’s body language is important during class. Walking throughout the classroom makes an instructor more accessible. She teaches communicative English and English for research paper writing. Timing is Everything: Using Short Student Attention Spans to Your Advantage in the Classroom”.

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Attention Teaching Instructors Minute Papers 93

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Write a letter. Tests were administered via digital devices (though there are options for paper-and-pencil). Besides measuring student achievement, they also were an indicator of school facility to administer green digital tests instead of the traditional paper-and-pencil versions. That’ll do it. Basic computer skills. Compare-contrast.

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