eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Ninth-grade English was a paradox for me—both the best and worst year for helping me learn to write. Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

New AI tools are emerging daily for educators and students; from AI tutors to curriculum creators, the AI education market is surging. Because the tool can assist with assignments like generating essays from prompts, students quickly integrated these technologies into the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

It’s especially true when it comes to writing assignments: With poor writing skills, students can’t deal with essays and other homework the way they need to get a good grade. Think of SAT requiring essay writing or IELTS and TOEFL measuring writing abilities. Above-average writing skills are a must here to succeed.

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Writing Skills Essay Languages 281

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers. Misconceptions about AI in education 1.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 327

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Classes have a wide mix of strengths and weaknesses, and a one-size-fits-all curriculum does not meet most children’s needs. Instead, the curriculum was compartmentalized and decisions were consistently made about students without their voice. With UDL, teachers proactively design the curriculum to eliminate barriers.

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

This lesson is part of the Constitution unit and is available in English and Spanish with several integration options, so the material can be adapted to whatever your classroom needs may be. I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom. My favorite is The “Federal” in Federalism lesson.

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Students History Essay High School 336

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

As the Curriculum Specialist with Vancouver Public Schools, I oversee Secondary English Language Arts, Advanced Placement, Running Start, and College in the High Schools. A Curriculum Specialist’s Tech Essentials. Be sure to check back every month for a new “My Tech Essentials.”]. Next page: 2 more Tech Essentials).

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

But that creates a dilemma for the teachers tasked with helping students improve their writing skills: How can they build more opportunities into the curriculum for students to practice writing, while still giving students both timely and meaningful feedback? Revision Assistant isn’t just essay grading software.

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Writing Technology Essay Feedback 189

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Each won $5,000 grants as well as the schoolwide semester’s subscription to Rosetta Stone English. I have given my students over 10,000 books.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

For the last few years, this enterprising duo has been flipping their English classes, co-moderating a weekly Twitter education chat, presenting at conferences, planning lessons, and collaborating regularly from opposite sides of the country. Thomasson, who teaches English at Forestview High School in Gastonia, N.C.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. Plus SEL lessons can be naturally woven into the curriculum. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete. For me it was Ms.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. By welcoming their passion into our curriculum, I hope to affirm students for what they value and pursue outside the classroom.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2017

Certain teacher professional development could have a positive impact on academic writing by English learners in grades 7-12, according to a study from the University of California, Irvine. During the academic writing assessment, secondary school students composed timed, on-demand essays interpreting themes from fiction and nonfiction texts.

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Writing Exams Essay Students 206

eSchool News

MAY 22, 2017

Students enter my English classrooms and see the course as a requirement for advancement. This message should be universally displayed in English classrooms throughout the country. In an age of technological advancement, it’s easy to feel obsolete. This is similar to the best user experiences with technology. I define my relevance.

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Writing Technology Education Essay 224

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Analytical Essay + Book Promo/Trailer Video There are many blog posts out there encouraging teachers to choose assignments other than essays. As a teacher coach, I’m not encouraging teachers to throw out the practice of assigning, reading, giving feedback on and correcting essays.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot. First, rarely are they appropriate for students with limited English proficiency, or any speakers of dialects other than General American English.

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Education Testing Feedback English 297

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. They needed a cohesive core math curriculum that they could roll out districtwide. Joey carefully tailored curriculum pathways to meet students’ needs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

When coding shows up in the curriculum of a liberal arts program, its primary purpose is usually pretty obvious: help students get hired. These efforts are often described as attempts to “ help non-computer science students build the tech skills required for today’s jobs ” so that they are ultimately “ more employable. ” Anderson says.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 213

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

My students enjoyed it so much that since then, we have participated in several including a one-pager challenge where students respond to a New York Times story, a contest where students submit an original podcast and a contest where students can share opinion essays on issues they care deeply about.

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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 210

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Nobody in the “learn to code” movement argues for this, and every educator would agree with Wolfram's analogy that teaching raw coding syntax alone would be like teaching English handwriting without teaching how to write an essay. This is why Code.org’s own K-12 curriculum pathway features both.) In summary.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Teacher-directed Instructional Model In this model, teachers create the curriculum themselves. Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old. More than three-quarters (77 percent) of teachers who relied on curriculum outside of textbooks created their own materials in 2023, and that pattern is likely to continue.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 259

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

When we have assignments, such as typed essays, I am not able to work on the assignment at home. Unfortunately, the digital divide is a very real barrier to success in our community,” said Audra Bluehouse, an English teacher at Hatch Valley High. “We Better internet would help tremendously in our community,” Angel said.

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Internet Essay Assignments English 157

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

That focus on design is a key theme that runs across the campus and the curriculum which, according to the school’s website , uses a design thinking approach similar to that taught at Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design. McAndrew used an example of a student writing an essay in an English class.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

This is a genuine issue for students with non-English backgrounds mainly. Firstly, they cannot participate freely in project groups with native English speakers. All Round Wring Proficiency Takes A Hit Academic writing becomes a stable grey area for students weak in English. What are the issues they face? Not only dissertations.

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Language Languages Communication English 117

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? We can not omit digital literacy from our curriculum. Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. Rather than an essay or multiple choice test, students create videos to demonstrate their knowledge. After all, the best way to learn is to teach.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

West-Smith, a former English teacher, middle-school principal, and district curriculum supervisor, is the Curriculum Content Manager at. The thing that folks don’t realize is that often times English teachers have not had extensive training in teaching writing,” West-Smith says. Prompts, Essays and More.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 135

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Since K-12 schools are required to follow standardized curriculums, Beckett says students start to think there is only one way to learn something, and if they aren’t good at it, they must not be good at that subject. Now students would likely find his writing too difficult to understand on their own. “I So they quit.”

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 199

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Although advisory was required for my students to accumulate elective credits and meet graduation requirements, I wasn’t provided thoughtful or engaging curriculum. The head and the heart are connected, and our schools, curriculum, and education technology should reflect this. Near the end of the semester, we held a formal debate.

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

I went to a liberal arts college and spent most of my undergrad years not focusing particularly closely on the computer science coursework, but instead focusing on different areas of political science, of English. They've gone back and reread their essays, they've thought about their work.

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Achievement Writing Essay Languages 164

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. That way, teachers can focus on teaching, confident that the tools are giving students a better learning experience.

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Skills Students Assignments Essay 212

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 Using a mentor text from the curriculum, students analyze a sentence and recreate it for various media and audiences. Is it quality writing? Not all the time.” It’s a process.

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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Hybrid Courses Language Languages English 81

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Oregon teachers wish they didn’t have to give their students Smarter Balanced English and math tests because the tests take too much time, have confusing directions and are unfair for students who don’t have computers at home or who have inadequate technology at school. A new survey reveals discontent with length, logistics.

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Testing Teachers Math Essay 150

1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

APRIL 19, 2025

CURIOUS TO SEE WHAT Curriculum SHE Used IN THE PAST? Curriculum We Added IEW SIS Level C (instead of Elegant Essay ) Fix It Grammar (bringing back instead of the grammar we were using) Critical Thinking Co. Vocabulary 1 (to replace the vocab we didn’t like) ENGLISH Writing : Here’s a funny story for you.

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Grades Curriculum Textbooks Essay 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. Now, he embeds lessons on Excel into his curriculum in introductory chemistry. There’s a bit of an imposter syndrome. And there are better and better can openers for exactly that purpose.

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Teaching Culture Internet Students 202

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

John Warner’s forthcoming book, Why They Can’t Write: Killing the Five Paragraph Essay and Other Necessities , addresses this question directly. There are several well-crafted books on the approach, including Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum , by Laurence Behrens and Leonard J.

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Writing Skills Teaching Essay 153

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. Under the UDL framework, we consider student variability and diversity as the norm, and the burden of adaptation is placed on the curriculum.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218