Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Teaching 8th grade ELA can be a uniquely rewarding experience, as long as you’ve got the right tools. But is that enough to prepare new teenagers for 9th grade? We’ve gathered our favorite 8th grade ELA teacher essentials, including tips for brand-new teachers and seasoned veterans alike.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

Preschool: Full Year Curriculum {Plans and Printables} BUNDLE By Mrs Plemons Kindergarten Grades: PreK-K This bundle focuses on exposure to core subjects with summary pages, printables, and activity overviews. Use standards specific to your state, like Common Core State Standards , to choose materials that match your child’s grade level.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

He recommends using this framework to guide your thinking: break down each assignment, project, or discussion board activity into disparate steps, then decide for which parts of the process AI use is appropriate. Step 3: Carve out time to discuss and model your expectations. Instead, have a conversation with them.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

By teaching students how to refine their searches and discussing the impact of these search skills, students will be more discerning when it comes to reviewing search results. Today’s network technology provides many ways for schools to monitor and control what information or sites are available to students at different grade levels.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

Meanwhile, in my online section of the same course, students worked through carefully crafted modules at their own pace, their participation in discussion boards ebbing and flowing unpredictably. One of the most powerful techniques in my traditional classroom is the think-pair-share discussion format.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Here are just four edtech tools that can help transform teamwork in the classroom : Padlet: One of my first go-to tools is Padlet–its super easy to use and works great for grades 3-12. Students can post text, images, or videos, making it perfect for brainstorming, digital discussions, and sharing resources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 11, 2025

Today: K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum Overview K-8 Digital Citizenship Curriculum — 9 grade levels. A year-long digital citizenship curriculum that covers everything you need to discuss on internet safety and efficiency, delivered in the time you have in the classroom. 46 lessons. 46 projects.

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Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

Think-Pair-Share is a three-step discussion routine that helps students build confidence in their ideas before they share them with a larger group. You Can Use It Anywhere, With Any Grade Think-Pair-Share isnt tied to one subject, it works anywhere. What Is Think-Pair-Share? Thats when youll see the magic happen.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Highlights include new Math Talks for grades 3-5, which feature activities focused on making sense of mathematics through open-ended prompts and rich student discussions, Daily Fix-Its and Weekly Edits, which are teacher-led presentations targeting common student grammar errors, and more. The new civics-focused series, Need toKnow Jr.,

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

In a recent interview with K12 Digest, Nam Ngo Thanh discussed his experience with technology, innovation, and education. For example, when I want to foster peer dialogue, I might use technology to let students record and respond to one another in a way that feels safe and authentic, especially for those who may be shy in live discussion.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

He recommends using this framework to guide your thinking: break down each assignment, project, or discussion board activity into disparate steps, then decide for which parts of the process AI use is appropriate. Step 3: Carve out time to discuss and model your expectations. Instead, have a conversation with them.

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Critical Thinking Assignments Academic Integrity Intelligence 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Create community guidelines for discussions that include intention and impact/anti-bias language. Immediately address ableist /biased remarks in the classroom through discussion. Examine course syllabi to make sure policies (late work, absence, participation grades, etc.)

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2025

The top 10 chat topics were the same across all ages, grades and geographic locations, according to data from more than 250,000 messages exchanged with middle and high school students spanning 19 states. Alongside recently published a report revealing what worries today’s kids are willing to share with artificial intelligence systems.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

This ensured that all students at our school were included in the discussions.” The field trip was critical to strengthening the connection between what was discussed in the classroom with what goes on in the ocean,” said Sophia Yates, a Little Compton resident who is pursuing her master’s degree in oceanography at URI. “A

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Without adequate reading, students will be reluctant, or unable, to participate in class discussions and conversations for lack of understanding and fear of not measuring-up to peers (Severe, E., Preparing to join classroom discussions requires intentional preparation. Stalnaker, J., Hubbard, A., H., & Bailey, E.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Teach Hub

JUNE 27, 2025

Discuss how Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Whoopi Goldberg, etc. By discussing the many success stories of famous people who overcame great adversity through perseverance, you can make a real impact on a struggling student’s life. When you scroll through social media, you’ll see perfect grades, perfect families, perfect everything.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

The youngest Zoomers, as theyre also known, are around 13 years old and still have years left in public school systems dealing with frequent upheavals due to federal-level uncertainty , politicization of essential services like libraries and ongoing challenges to helping students get on grade level.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

I walked into classrooms where ninth graders were reading at a third-grade level. Given that we are discussing learning environments for students and families, in many ways, it is. Their brilliance wasn’t dimmed by ability, but by systems too broken — or too indifferent to see them. Where intervention was nonexistent.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

After you’ve completed the assessments, discuss your strengths and challenges, prioritize key areas and determine goals. When one of Tannenbaum’s first-grade multilingual learners discovered he could create videos using Wixie instead of doing traditional math worksheets, his entire attitude toward learning transformed.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Conference Seating: Best for whole-class discussions 2. Horseshoe: Best for class discussions and inclusivity 5. Conference Seating: Best for whole-class discussions Similar to group pods, this type of classroom seating arrangement involves having all of the desks connected to feel more like a large conference room table.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 12, 2025

Each role targets a specific reading skill, and when students cycle through all four, they’re not just reading, they’re processing, discussing, and deepening their understanding. These kinds of questions open the door to meaningful discussion and help students engage with the text on a whole new level.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

AI-enabled systems such as adaptive learning platforms, chatbots, and generative tools like ChatGPT can provide students with on-demand explanations, simulate peer discussions, offer low-stakes quizzes, and give instant feedback. AI Tools In the Flipped Classroom 2.0 In-class activities should build directly on pre-class efforts.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. ” “That’s going to guide our discussion for the day,” she explains. . “So they’re retrieving and I can actually see what they’re doing in the moment,” she explains.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Its a middle-grade math game in which aliens come to Earth to learn about decimal fractions. Her work demonstrates how teachers can encourage all students to draw on and share their interests and experiences with other students particularly those who have been historically left out of the discussions.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

AI-enabled systems such as adaptive learning platforms, chatbots, and generative tools like ChatGPT can provide students with on-demand explanations, simulate peer discussions, offer low-stakes quizzes, and give instant feedback. AI Tools In the Flipped Classroom 2.0 In-class activities should build directly on pre-class efforts.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 95

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. Monitor and Support Groups in Real Time : Circulate during group work, check for understanding, and intervene as needed to guide discussion or clarify misconceptions.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Start the year off with foundational lessons based on CCSS from the previous grade (or even the grade below that) to ensure students have the tools they need to succeed. Once reluctant learners know that success is in their control, you’ll find their grades starting to rise.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Online courses can quickly become overwhelming as the emails, discussion posts, and papers roll in like the next COVID-19 variant. We need to find ways to teach, learn, and find the often-elusive work-life balance to slow down and meet faculty needs and improve student engagement.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Online courses can quickly become overwhelming as the emails, discussion posts, and papers roll in like the next COVID-19 variant. We need to find ways to teach, learn, and find the often-elusive work-life balance to slow down and meet faculty needs and improve student engagement.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 68

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Gen ed is great, so why is it discussed as a “hurdle.” Currently, she is in a general psychology course, and although she finds the concepts interesting, she is grinding her way through online discussion boards to finish her degree. She is not being asked to manufacture responses to hypothetical scenarios on weekly discussion boards.

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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Try This: Imagine youre teaching a new ecology unit to your 8 th grade science class. You can spotlight a few responses or guide discussion using sentence starters. As they work, have them discuss their ideas and use sentence frames to explain their thinking: Both and have. with guided questions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

The rules in my room — raise your hand before you speak, stay in your seat, respect others’ opinions and values — are there to make my class environment safe and open for all of my students to discuss and debate freely. They are for everyone. Martin’s class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

English learners often face challenges in understanding lessons, participating in discussions and completing assignments , which can lead to lower achievement and increased feelings of isolation. I feel more confident when working in groups because I can understand what's being discussed and can communicate with others. an EB student.

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Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

Knowledge: Define, Identify, Describe, Recognize, Tell, Explain, Recite, Memorize, Illustrate, Quote, State, Match, Recognize, Select, Examine, Locate, Recite, Enumerate, Record, List, Quote, Label Understand: Summarize, Interpret, Classify, Compare, Contrast, Infer, Relate, Extract, Paraphrase, Cite, Discuss, Distinguish, Delineate, Extend, Predict, (..)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2025

WordPress Use a free WordPress blog, but instead convert the pages to topics discussed below. These are free/fee with lots of templates that can be customized; public domain images and videos available PorfolioGen A fee site that lets you collect all the pieces of your experience into one nicely-formatted digital place. Here’s how.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

Here’s a simple review of copyright law I use to start the discussion. Here’s a video I use in my Grad School classes to discuss copyrights and image use. The law states that works of art created in the U.S. Some may be TMI, but the important stuff for writers starts at 3:47.

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