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94 Intriguing Writing Prompts for High School

Teachers Pay Teachers

The slides include both psychology-specific and social-emotional prompts, including prompts about motivation and emotion, states of consciousness, and developmental psychology. Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment.

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Baked-in bias or sweet equity: AI’s role in motivation and deep learning

eSchool News

As educational AI research tries to keep up with AI development, questions remain surrounding the impact of AI use on student motivation and overall learning. Because the tool can assist with assignments like generating essays from prompts, students quickly integrated these technologies into the classroom.

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Using AI to teach persuasive writing to English learners

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His essay, Money Cant Buy Happiness, included valuable reflections on emotional fulfillment and references to The Great Gatsby, yet his ideas were scattered and the language needed refinement. For example, students can prompt ChatGPT with Help me outline a persuasive essay on solar energy, and it will provide a structured outline.

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What Motivates Teachers to Enter the Profession?

Edsurge

Society has always been fascinated to learn about the motivations of famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians and how they came to their profession. What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they will stay in the classroom?

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How to help ESL students improve writing skills

eSchool News

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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How to support student agency

eSchool News

The benefits of student agency Students are more engaged and motivated. Besides allowing students to pursue topics that interest them, the sense of ownership and autonomy that student agency provides is very motivating in itself. They might write an essay, compile a slideshow presentation, or create a video, for instance.

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How we turned around our students’ confidence and scores

eSchool News

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. After assigning a “standard” written essay based on materials that we were reading in class, I would have students read their essays at the front of the class while I recorded them.

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