Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

With these engaging 7th grade writing prompts, students will dive into a world of self-expression. They’re literary detectives, diving into research and using evidence to create well-organized essays. They’re literary detectives, diving into research and using evidence to create well-organized essays.

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

Now, a dozen students from six families are suing the department for sidelining books, curriculum and cultural awareness events that conflict with the presidents goal of excising gender ideology and diversity, equity and inclusion from public life. The administration has now made that verboten in DoDEA schools.

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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 26, 2025

which is our culture's shorthand for "What to you spend your weekdays working at, which is ultimately the question, "How do you go about acquiring food, clothing, and shelter?" It's not the same, and the kids know it, because at the end of the day, they can't exchange their grades for their basic necessities.

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Essay Art Questions Writing 98

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Because the tool can assist with assignments like generating essays from prompts, students quickly integrated these technologies into the classroom. However, even after these efforts, AI systems may remain biased toward certain cultures and contexts.

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Motivation Essay Learning Beliefs 327

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

3.2 – Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. Group 2 (On Grade Level): Students read a standard-level folktale and discuss the central message.

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Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 395

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Input Relevant Information: Provide the AI chatbot with relevant details such as the subject area, grade level, and any specific requirements or preferences you have for the task. Can you suggest engaging activities for my grade class focusing on ? Please provide some project-based learning ideas for grade students to explore.

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History Physical Education Art Essay 382

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

There are resources available for grades preK-12, so teachers at every level of school can find relevant and informative materials for their students. Contest winners get to participate in behind-the-scenes experiences at iconic American historical and cultural sites as part of America’s Field Trip. From lessons focused on the U.S.

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Students History Essay High School 336

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Once my family moved to the mainland from Honolulu when I was in third grade, I don’t remember ever having any Asian or biracial teachers through elementary, middle or high school, or even in college or graduate school. We held Socratic seminars rooted in essays by Amy Tan and Daniel José Older. We analyzed Beyoncé’s Formation video.

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Culture Teachers Schools Syllabus 166

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Highlighting their achievements can boost morale and encourage a supportive school culture. Activities like creating portfolios, writing reflective essays, or presenting on their learning journey can be very effective. Transition plans : Develop comprehensive plans to support students as they move to the next grade level or school.

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Achievement Schools Counselling Feedback 296

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. Related: 4 things you should know about digital portfolios.

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Essay Failure Students Writing 207

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

One reason for that, he argues, is that it’s easier to measure how much students are learning in math and science by using standardized tests that can be quickly graded by machines. It might seem counterintuitive that the same technology threatening to hinder student learning might be used to boost it.

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Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 205

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

asked a 9th-grade boy on the first day of school. Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-based model. The transition raised multiple challenges including course placement, grading, and community communications.

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Grades Languages Language Essay 129

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Driven in part by the educational imperative to minimize student testing, what better solution than a test already heavily vetted as being inclusive and cross-cultural that many students are familiar with. In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. use academic-specific vocabulary whenever possible.

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Essay Mobile Devices Exams Writing 90

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Solution for teachers : Teachers can foster a culture of integrity by establishing trust and open communication. More focus on grades than learning When students are preoccupied with grades, they often lose sight of the learning process itself. They may view learning as a means to an end, rather than a valuable process.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 212

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

There’s an unlimited range of ways to write and things to write about here, from poetry and fan fiction (or “fanfic”) to current events and college entrance essays. Grades : 8-12. Price : Free/subscription. Rating : 4/5. Cons : Public posts could potentially lead to online privacy and safety issues; monitor with care.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 183

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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Ethics Essay Syllabus Feedback 335

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

As a case in point, Project Topeka featured an automated essay scoring tool that provided grades 6–8 students with individualized line-level feedback on argumentative essays responding to six different prompts. Proficient definition—“The essay introduces a clear claim based on the topic or text(s). See Exhibit 1.)

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Writing Essay Teachers Feedback 147

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus. After one year of using enVision, Johnston County saw real growth.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 319

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

The main drawback is that this model simultaneously holds all students to the same learning objective , preventing them from getting the proper lesson unless the teacher has built thousands of lessons and allowed students to jump back or forward to different grade levels according to their levels.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 261

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Specifically, new AI tools can be used to improve how educators measure and grade a students progress through course materials. The hope is that new AI tools will allow for replacing many multiple-choice exercises in online textbooks with fill-in-the-blank or essay questions.

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Learning Textbooks Essay Ethics 200

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. Fluent in Digital Culture — Not Academic Tools It’s understandable that many educators perceive members of Gen Z to be internet-savvy.

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Teaching Culture Internet Students 203

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. At colleges and universities, there's a culture of professors grabbing materials from the web without always citing them. Should they disclose that to students?

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Realizing this truth has led me to rethink how I define culturally sustaining pedagogy. The ways and means of learning in the classroom should mirror the culture and community of the students in it. I want them to leave my classroom with the ability to work kindly with others and care about the people around them.

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Skills Teaching Students Essay 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. Some folks commented: “I have dyscalculia…When I was in the 3rd grade, my teacher yelled at me and said, 'How do you not understand this yet?!' Learning grade-level content was a challenge for him.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 215

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In addition, many students are using AI to write coursework and essays, which has caused a lot of outrage. Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. This helps students move through material at their own pace, whether faster or slower.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 183

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I failed to appreciate the value of clear expectations and the inescapable necessity that my students needed to walk out of my class with a grade. For the next four years, I used Kevin Gannons grading contract to implement more structure and Barbara Schapiros third space to reflect on what worked for me and my students.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 74

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is Of course, there’s still a place for longform essays and formal writing, and strong writing instruction will effectively incorporate both, she says. Is it quality writing? It’s a process.

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period.

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Activities Learning Art Attention 171

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

A 2016 study of 3rd to 8th grade educators found that only 55% of teachers said they enjoy teaching writing. 9% of writing assignments in grades six to eight include long form writing. The lack of practice adds up; by 8th grade, just 27% of students are at or above a proficient level of writing. by The Education Trust, 2015.

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Writing Teaching Education Feedback 156

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period.

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Activities Learning Attention Failure 174

EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, AI assistants helped bolster first-grade students, a majority of whom were struggling to achieve high test scores in science, technology, engineering and math courses. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores.

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Teachers Teaching Assistants Intelligence Math 154

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe, an associate professor of writing, rhetoric and American cultures at Michigan State University “The question that usually comes up is, ‘I don’t have enough time and I don’t have enough money.’ As one instructor wrote in an essay last year , “everyone lost something in HyFlex courses. What’s the ‘Gold Standard’? “We

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Teaching Instructors Lecturing Blended Courses 207

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

I was intrigued to learn whether the practices and approaches used to teach CS in grades K-2, which is my area of focus, would be in any way similar to those at the university level. She reflects on her final project, saying, “I no longer felt I was learning to read and write commands and scripts.

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Science Education Learning Essay 218

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

It focuses on colleges, but it has something to say to educators at all grade levels. He passed away the other day, and you can read an essay looking back at his life and work that we published at EdSurge. From everything we’ve read about Christensen, we’re guessing he’d be happy to see his ideas debated and engaged with.

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Education History Art Essay 204

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

On April 6, she did a livestream session where she answered students’ questions, and pulled up a Google Doc on screen to show them how to write an essay. To many historians and teachers, it was also culturally offensive, or plain ignorant, to gloss over the histories of non-white civilizations before European colonization.

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Testing Exams Teachers History 155

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

By assigning digital projects like podcasts, infographics, and video essays, educators empower students to fully express themselves with new media and methods that students today find most familiar and relevant to their lives. They learn content and how to be a positive change agent in our communities.”

Skills 212

Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

It promotes student independence and creativity, but it is also an immensely collaborative tool that I have witnessed being integrated across all grade levels and content areas. Credit: EduElfie The ability to reach students across content and grade levels is astonishing. Previously, my kids struggled with writing.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Essay Discussions 167