eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

To be fair, its a valid question. If youre teaching math, a local architect can expound on how angles and equations literally shape the homes in which students live. This makes the learning intensely personal while taking advantage of students natural curiosity, creativity, and critical-thinking skills.

STEM

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Key points: Encouraging reading is a top priority, no matter how the material is presented Boycotting book fairs no more Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub I love a good classic. After all, I named my son Holden.

History

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

With the national emphasis on STEM, cross-curricular learning teaches students about history, science, technology, engineering, and math (as well as art and literature), all while inspiring students to explore these subjects and make connections on their own. Next page: Gen Z curriculum in action).

Curriculum

eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2017

With the national emphasis on STEM, cross-curricular learning teaches students about history, science, technology, engineering, and math (as well as art and literature), all while inspiring students to explore these subjects and make connections on their own. Next page: Gen Z curriculum in action).

Curriculum

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

By moving through these four phases—See, Think, Me, We—participants engage in a comprehensive thinking process that takes them from initial observation to personal connection and social relevance. Teachers often use this routine to deepen students’ engagement with material and to foster complex, critical thinking skills.

Metacognitive Skills

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Cultural norms have long dictated the foundation they need to ­survive in ­society and the workforce — reading, writing, math and science. . Project-based learning and science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education give students the tools to solve real-world problems while also building their critical-thinking skills.

STEM

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. They are good at math or they aren’t. Kids are born with the characteristics that will mold their future.

Critical Thinking

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Communication is key in classrooms, and recent 21st century initiatives describe the importance of students understanding the reasoning of others and engaging in meaningful conversations using critical thinking.

Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. I want to see their creativity, critical thinking, and problem solving in action. This is great motivation for critical thinking and problem solving. On the surface, it’s not so surprising. What Game Delivers.

Writing

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The same analysis found kindergarten teachers were about 15 percent more likely to use math and reading workbooks at the end of the decade. At the same time, tools such as art centers, sand tables and dress up clothes, which encourage curiosity, critical thinking and social skills, get used less in order to emphasize academics.

Testing

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. They are good at math or they aren’t. Some of the critical thinking traits included are: perseverance.

Critical Thinking

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Or initiative to math? Grades 6-8 Earth Science, Earthquakes and Volcanic Activity, Earth Systems, Earth and Human Activity Critical thinking, collaboration, empathy, persistence Hurry to My Habitat. It usually prompts a response along the lines of: “Wow. I’d love to do that. But how do I apply service to science?

Skills

Teach Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2024

However, the pressure to perform well on these tests has made many teachers feel they need to “teach to the test”, focusing in-class instruction on test-specific content and skills rather than fostering deeper understanding or critical thinking. The main focus of these tests is on core subjects like math and literacy.

Testing

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

To be fair, kids who use technology regularly at home do have both a baseline set of skills and a fearless enthusiasm for anything with a screen and a power button. Many teachers think that a certain type of person loves tech and the rest of the world slogs through, at best tolerating it. Math is like that.

Teaching

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being. Critical Thinking Skills: AI is primarily focused on providing information and completing tasks, rather than fostering critical thinking skills.

Ethics

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

While AI can be a powerful tool to augment the teaching experience, human instructors remain essential for fostering student engagement, critical thinking, and emotional well-being. Critical Thinking Skills: AI is primarily focused on providing information and completing tasks, rather than fostering critical thinking skills.

Ethics

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Allowing students to move on when they’re ready—or revisit something when they need support—is giving everyone a fair chance at being successful.”. Now you see kids in classrooms who are so excited to learn, so excited to show what they are learning, so excited to use technology to collaborate and critically think with their peers.”.

Learning

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

AR and VR, for instance, brings a fun element to a lesson and can help students develop critical thinking skills. In March 2020, many were either starting school for the first time or in critical developmental years and had to go to school virtually. –Brett Woudenberg, CEO, MIND Research Institute , Creators of ST Math.

Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 8, 2016

The education side includes activity templates for a wide variety of subjects including math, science, technology, ESL, and languages. With the focus on student creativity, this is a great tie-in to discussions about online media, digital citizenship, plagiarism, fair use, and public domain. Education applications. FriendStrip.

Writing

k12

MARCH 23, 2025

Research shows that by middle school, many girls can begin to lose confidence in math and science , even when they perform just as well as boys. STEM Curriculum at K12 K12s STEM curriculum is designed to spark curiosity and keep students engaged through real-world applications of science, technology, engineering, and math.

STEM

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

I don’t love math. And that gets very, I think, cloudy because it’s just creating a huge, inequity. Dr. Brandee Ramirez Like if you have if you have one, one teacher who’s not using it and one teacher who is, I just don’t think that’s fair. I did that for a year and realized, you know what?

Schools

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

AR and VR, for instance, brings a fun element to a lesson and can help students develop critical thinking skills. In March 2020, many were either starting school for the first time or in critical developmental years and had to go to school virtually. –Brett Woudenberg, CEO, MIND Research Institute , Creators of ST Math.

Hybrid Learning

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

They value critical thinking, adaptability, independence, and real-world skills, all traits that online learners often cultivate in abundance. A strong math SAT score, for instance, can confirm academic strength if the student is applying for engineering. It positions them as self-driven learners, a highly desirable trait.

Essay

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2022

The camera may not record teachers cheering on their students at basketball games, choir concerts and science fairs. In a time of shifting definitions and “alternative facts,” we want math to be math (or maths if you’re British). But we must examine what lies underneath it all. My students already live in the real world.

History

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

He rattled off some examples: a class that teaches critical thinking through Dungeons and Dragons. Where middle school math might have failed to inspire students who were learning remotely over the last year-and-a-half, classes on theatre arts, animal science, sports history or yoga managed to do the trick.

Internet

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Poor schools are told not to wander too far from the standards, there’s little time for student questions and critical thinking. girls, poor kids, students of color can’t do math & science). In wealthy neighborhoods in New York, there are strong parent movements to opt out their kids from the exams. Microplurality.

Education

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

News literacy is fundamental to preparing students to become active, critically thinking members of our civic life — which should be one of the primary goals of a public education,” Kim Bowman, News Literacy Project senior research manager and author of the report, said in an email interview. “If

Study

eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Department of Education , remove woke ideology from public schools, and return to the basics of reading, writing, and math. I dont think we should reduce standards, but the certification process can be more flexible for someone with, for example, a bachelors degree in history or math. Our schools need more nerds in them.

Teachers

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

Using these materials and others like it will continue to strengthen students’ growth and critical thinking skills. “When we design the same learning pathways for all learners, we might tell ourselves we are being fair, but in fact, single pathways are exclusionary.

Teaching