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APRIL 29, 2024

From the three-paragraph essay to one that lives up to the purpose of essays is a big leap both scholastically and skills-wise. Here, we delve into practical tips and strategies to transform your writing from good to great, ensuring your essays are clear, compelling, and academically rigorous.

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JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. In this blog post, we’ll unlock the secrets to successful essay writing and share 10 proven tips to help you level up your writing game. What is Effective Essay Writing?

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APRIL 30, 2024

Explore the benefits and drawbacks of AI in essay writing, including its impact on student learning. AI and Writing Essays: Pros and Cons, How Will Students Learn to Write if an AI Writes It for Them? AI’s influence in essay writing is growing, highlighting both advantages and significant issues.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

In a setting where the pace is dictated by the teacher or the curriculum rather than the learner’s needs, students may rush through the material without fully understanding it. Targeted Skill Development: Focus on specific skills that individual students or groups need to develop, guiding practice and providing feedback.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

Revising in response to formative feedback is a cornerstone of effective writing instruction. Providing substantive comments on stacks of student essays, however, is highly time-consuming for busy teachers. Despite the potential of AWE systems to support writing instruction, they have not been widely adopted by schools or teachers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. Mr. Johnson was willing to provide feedback on drafts. In most classrooms, students don’t iterate on their work.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2023

It’s like a digital Picasso, but instead of painting, it might be writing essays, producing music, or even generating feedback on students’ work. In doing so, it allows for the creation of a truly personalized curriculum, with targeted feedback and resources for each individual student. Exciting, right?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. Integrate AI in curriculum : Incorporate AI-related tasks to teach content and digital literacy simultaneously. Using AI tools for editing and feedback while ensuring students critically evaluate suggestions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Next year my course—using the same curriculum—had 150 students sign up! There is no way to give personalized feedback when I have 600 pages to grade each week. There is no way to give personalized feedback when I have 600 pages to grade each week. Use a Feedback Rubric. Writing useful feedback is hard.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Maybe you were curled up by the fire, reading a good book, and perhaps considering how you were going to integrate feedback, change up your courses, and add some jazz, flavor, and maybe a little bit of spice to your courses. For example, creating an outline that eventually leads to some type of media, such as an essay or a podcast.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Within HMH’s connected literacy solution, Writable ’s new GenAI capabilities increase the impact teachers can have by engaging more students with targeted feedback and motivating better writing in the moment. This approach to AI is teacher-guided, allowing teachers to incorporate AI-suggested feedback and scores into their instruction.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Here’s a non-comprehensive overview: Text generation : From drafting lesson plans to creating formative assessments, Gen AI can produce a wide range of written content and aid educators in curriculum development. Students often demonstrate their learning through written explanations in the forms of short answer questions and essays.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How do you know when a student has turned in a good essay? There’s no magic prescription for that,” said West-Smith, a former teacher, principal, and instructional supervisor who now heads the curriculum team at Turnitin. In other words, she said, is the essay effective in communicating its ideas? It’s simply, does it work ?”

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

And I’ve noticed that technology usage usually fits into one of two categories: independent practice or procedural support—such as writing an essay in Google Docs. Thankfully, increasingly accessible technology is allowing teachers to look beyond textbooks, worksheets, and five paragraph essays. Tackling these challenges pays off.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The goal is for students to lead with empathy to identify and define a problem, then develop a realistic solution to that problem that can be tested and refined through feedback. By pushing students to continue to look for ways to enhance their work through feedback, the idea of failure is framed in a positive way. References Dam, R.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. General preparation hints include: practice good writing with every school essay students write. Revision Assistant — practice writing over a long term and receive targeted feedback to improve skill. take practice tests. Mindsnacks SAT Vocabulary.

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Essay Mobile Devices Exams Writing 94

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MARCH 13, 2019

If they’re short answer or essay — the preferred way to check understanding — grading takes a long time. A solution that has become popular is peer feedback. What exactly is peer feedback and how is it being applied to lower grades? What is peer feedback? Why peer feedback? How does this work?

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Founded in 2016, Writable offers tools and templates that scaffold the writing and feedback process to help students become stronger writers. For teachers, Writable’s web-based tool offers customizable templates for common writing assignments (such as an argumentative or cause-and-effect essay, or a personal narrative).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As educators continue to embrace a transformative shift in classroom instruction and design, the Union City School District in New Jersey pioneers district-wide STEAM curriculum through the integration of 3D printing technology with the Dremel Idea Builder. What changed? Read more.

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JULY 30, 2024

These may include standardized test scores (SAT or ACT), high school transcripts, letters of recommendation, and personal essays. Write a Compelling Personal Essay Your personal essay is an opportunity to showcase your personality, experiences, and aspirations. A well-crafted essay can set you apart from other applicants.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

For example, to become better writers, readers, and critical thinkers, Quill.org offers low-income students an AI-powered literacy tutor that provides students real-time coaching and feedback on literacy activities that pair nonfiction reading with informational writing.

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Education Testing Feedback English 291

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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 saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

Both were focused on enhancing the learning and knowledge that their textbooks covered, and also on making their curriculums better and more engaging. We want to go beyond just brainstorming, picking an idea, doing an outline, and writing the 5-paragraph essay,” says Morris. That’s not the way professionals write.

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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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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

APRIL 3, 2025

Additionally, teachers can integrate discussions on the value of learning and integrity into the curriculum, using tools like student reflections and peer feedback to reinforce these values. written essays or multimedia presentations)–can help students feel more invested.

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JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested?

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Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 166

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

West-Smith, a former English teacher, middle-school principal, and district curriculum supervisor, is the Curriculum Content Manager at. Provide feedback that works. Feedback is more helpful on an early draft than on a final one, she adds. Patti West-Smith. Turnitin , an Oakland, Calif.-based Vague is not.”.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 135

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APRIL 12, 2021

As a young teacher, I also engaged my students in their own This I Believe essays once upon a time. The pandemic exposed our vulnerabilities and forced me to distill my practice and carefully curate my curriculum to identify the most important content to cover and to employ the most effective activities to do so.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I'm already encouraging them to use the Writing Center and giving feedback that highlights one or two specific grammar/ clarity issues to focus on. However, starting by identifying what goals our students have will allow us to provide far more powerful feedback than if we never are aware of them at all.

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Writing Skills Teaching Essay 153

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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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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. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. Should they disclose that to students?

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

eSpark, an online supplemental curriculum provider for math, reading, and writing, is bringing AI-powered phonics practice to foundational reading instruction this school year. Students have the option to freely write admission essays and receive AI-provided feedback or can brainstorm using common application prompts.

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

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JANUARY 23, 2017

It deemphasizes the role of essay writing and communication—the stuff that in fact is probably more valuable for the majority of students. making writing judgment-free and effortless to get practice and get opportunities for revision, and get feedback, is the only way to even start to close the achievement gap.

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