eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. 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. This same approach would work in other classes as well.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Implement and Assess: Implement the chosen options in your teaching practice and assess their effectiveness in helping students apply and transfer their learning. Review and Customize: Review and customize the chatbot’s suggestions to meet your classroom context and student needs.

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History Art Physical Education Essay 382

Ask a Tech Teacher

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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This includes teaching test-taking strategies including: Active Reading: When I was a classroom teacher, I collaborated with the English department to teach students to become active readers, which makes it easier for them to pick out the information they really need from AP test passages and questions alike.

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Exams Essay Testing History 319

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 Language 290

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Over the last nine months, weve worked with eight fellows whose pathways in education are as diverse as they have ever been, including a trauma psychotherapist turned early childhood counselor, a physics teacher with a penchant for storytelling and a Jordan-born immigrant who moved to the United States to pursue her passion for teaching.

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Education Essay Culture Math 120

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

While AI tools can indeed generate answers or essays, this highlights the need to rethink assessment strategies. AI is unreliable and bias-laden While it’s true that AI models can perpetuate biases or produce incorrect information, these limitations present teaching opportunities. Misconceptions about AI in education 1.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 333

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Part of their concern is that incorporating these new services means they have to throw away the tried-and-true teaching techniques that they’ve mastered and love to use. Improving teaching and learning practices with technology is not about replacing traditional teaching. It is about taking what works and making it even better.

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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 341

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2024

When ChatGPT emerged a year and half ago, many professors immediately worried that their students would use it as a substitute for doing their own written assignments — that they’d click a button on a chatbot instead of doing the thinking involved in responding to an essay prompt themselves. And it’s still a concern.

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Writing Teaching Essay Languages 208

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent) expect math to be their hardest subject, followed by English (14.7 percent), and writing papers or essays (44.1 These platforms help with tasks such as breaking down complex math problems, summarizing difficult readings, generating essay ideas, and even providing personalized study plans. percent) and science (13.0

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Essay Ethics Schools Students 288

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Online technology tools can be an incredible asset in the classroom, enhancing the learning experience for students and making the teaching experience more pleasant and less stressful. They make available over 200 resources, including information on writing and teaching writing, grammar, style guides, and more. Sight Words. Boomessays.

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Essay Writing English Language 273

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2017

The university has created a way for automated software to give students in large STEM courses feedback on their writing in cases where professors don’t have time to grade hundreds of essays. Senior lecturer Brenda Gunderson teaches a statistics course that will be first to adopt the automated element of M-Write.

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 142

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

AI’s rise in popularity has brought with it questions about ethics, skills students will need for workplace success, and how to balance negatives with positives when it comes to teaching with this new generative tool. Just like the internet, AI isn’t going anywhere–so let’s teach our kids to work with AI, not against it.

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 298

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Our job is to teach them as they come. In English language arts, students need to analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot. All students have assets and strengths and goals and interests. Q: Can you give me an example?

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

Who says you can only use the flipped teaching method in your own class or with other teachers in your school or district? The pair joined forces in 2012 after Morris, who teaches sixth grade English and History at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon, Calif., Not Andrew Thomasson and Cheryl Morris, that’s for sure.

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English Course Outline Middle School Middle School 277

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

As professors and researchers in university teaching and learning programs, we’re fascinated by this question. From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.”

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Motivation Teachers Essay Languages 209

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When Wendy Schatzberg, an associate professor at Utah Tech University, was teaching introductory chemistry, she thought her students would know how to use basic Microsoft Office tools like Excel and Word. I cannot and should not assume,” says Schatzberg, who also directs the Center for Teaching and Learning at Utah Tech. “We

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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 Five years ago, Hyler created a grammar template in Google Slides to teach concepts like complex sentences. It’s a powerful and productive place to teach those concepts of writing.”

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

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. So when educators returned to teach in the fall, what did those conversations and units look like?

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 201

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Seventy percent of high school juniors and seniors believe AI-powered tools, including ChatGPT, can be a resource in brainstorming ideas for their college essays or short answer responses. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay. One state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all.

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Essay Exams Testing Reading 274

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

These edtech tools were viewed as a breakthrough technology that offered classrooms real-time reporting and analytics to track and adjust teaching as students play. Since then, online learning continues to shatter the boundaries of traditional, monolithic approaches to K-12 teaching and learning.

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Education Testing Feedback English 296

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Many writing centers are already jumping in to experiment with new AI tools, making the case both for the continued importance of writing instruction and for their place on campus as a hub for teaching AI literacy. “I Why do we need a required writing course if AI can do everything outside stakeholders want such a course to teach?,”

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Writing Instructors Essay English 206

eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

These AI tools help students fine-tune their essays before they connect with a live tutor or before they submit their assignments to teachers. Redesign teaching materials and class projects with Magic Grab. This includes on-demand tutoring along with AI tools that offer feedback on written work.

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Feedback Essay Writing Learning Styles 331

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

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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Essay Failure Writing Students 181

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

Made possible through a Wyoming Department of Education grant for after-school and extended day efforts, each K–12 student at Park County School District #16 will have 24/7 access to TutorMe’s high-quality tutors starting this fall—providing students with additional teaching perspectives and avenues for learning.

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Essay Teaching Perspectives Schools Students 246

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. For example, Larry Reiff, a high school English teacher in New York, uses Twitter to teach his students about Shakespeare by having them tweet in the voice of characters.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 216

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

It took a couple of years for me to finally figure out that teaching social skills in isolation is absolutely ridiculous. I rarely felt underprepared teaching math, but in advisory I perfected the art of improvising. I can say with confidence my students didn’t learn anything in advisory in my first two years teaching it.

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

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. Patti West-Smith.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 138

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2023

And plenty of educators are using podcasting in their teaching as well, getting students sharing conversations about ideas. What are some of the ways podcasts are now used in a teaching setting? Because let's say a student essay of 2,000 to 3,000 words, you can't easily read that out on a podcast. And I've done this myself.

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Teaching Peer Review Essay Knowledge 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

Based on the assessment system I use, many of my students were reading at a level between kindergarten and second grade, which is not ideal, given that I teach high schoolers. In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. To be clear, I don’t see John’s progress as a reflection of my teaching.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 174

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). The challenges of supporting ELLs across content areas Teaching ELLs presents unique challenges.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 168

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In an English class, for instance, teachers might give students a list of books relating to a certain theme and let students choose which book to read. They might write an essay, compile a slideshow presentation, or create a video, for instance. Choice in product lets students decide how to show what they’ve learned.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

As an English teacher with 24 years of experience, I often feel I’ve explored every possible avenue to help my students grow as writers. The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 127

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The following is the first full installment of the new EdSurge advice column about teaching in higher education. I realize that sounds completely obvious, but it was not something I have always remembered to integrate into my own teaching. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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Writing Skills Teaching Essay 155

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The population of students I serve as a teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning are interested in pursuing a career in education.

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