eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

I spent countless hours guiding them through the writing process, giving feedback, and encouraging them to think critically. With AIs assistance, my students are able to receive real-time feedback, suggestions for grammar and vocabulary, and even guidance on structuring their arguments.

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English Writing Teaching Essay 294

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

It helps students understand what is expected and how they will be evaluated. Rubrics also provide students with feedback, helping them understand their strengths and areas where they need to improve. Second, it allows teachers to provide more targeted feedback to students based on their performance on each criterion.

Fairness 546

Fairness Assignments Feedback Language 546

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

13, 2021 — McGraw Hill today announced updates to its widely used and trusted Wonders English Language Arts program for grades K-5, building upon the program’s proven instructional approach while offering a multitude of enhancements designed to meet the needs of today’s classroom. NEW YORK, Sept.

English 256

English Language Languages Art 256

Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2019

I encourage teachers to think about the purpose of the work students are doing and evaluate whether it makes sense for them to invest their time and energy grading that work. They pass back that work and students are often left to digest the grade and feedback in isolation. Then they collect that work and grade it in isolation.

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Grades Assignments Evaluation Coaching 419

eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2015

Latest Gallup Poll reveals that many public school parents are not in favor of using student performance in teacher evaluations. The Gallup Poll released Sunday found 55 percent opposed linking teacher evaluations to their students’ test scores.

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Evaluation Teachers Testing Students 208

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. Students were getting the feedback they needed faster.

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Feedback Peer Review Teaching Writing 218

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 4, 2014

This week I was invited to join an ongoing conversation with a small group of English teachers using Voxer. Facilitate peer feedback. Students can talk through their plans for a writing assignment or share a thesis statement and receive feedback. Practice an oral presentation and get feedback. Group storytelling.

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Exams Feedback Assignments English 325

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In an effort to do all three of these things– creating transparency, teaching self-assessment, and archiving work online– AND keep parents in the loop, my teaching partner and I developed a Google Document for the first unit of the year with 10 focus standards for each class–English, science, and technology.

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Grades Feedback English Evaluation 420

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Turnitin’s software now runs alongside the existing bots on English Wikipedia, helping to screen pages and identify potential copyright violations on the site. EranBot, with Turnitin technology, now looks at edits individually, and in near real-time, whereas previous technology could only evaluate entire articles.

English 279

English Knowledge Evaluation Feedback 279

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

For instance, students must evaluate the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated information, distinguishing between helpful insights and misleading content. For example, text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools support students with disabilities, while language models assist non-native English speakers.

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Ethics Critical Thinking Essay Students 327

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

From kindergarten through college, teachers know that writers need guided practice, substantive feedback, and opportunities for deep revision. From kindergarten through college, teachers know that writers need guided practice, substantive feedback, and opportunities for deep revision.

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Feedback Peer Review Beliefs Writing 132

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 297

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. Essentially, they provide a subset to the computer and they develop a model used to evaluate future papers.”

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Essay Feedback Writing Assignments 140

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Key points: Video-based coaching offers insight on teacher practices and makes feedback more effective I’m a first-year teacher. One group had five rounds of coaching in which they recorded themselves teaching and received feedback on the video. It creates a positive environment that is more focused on coaching than evaluation.

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Coaching Teachers Achievement Evaluation 319

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

QM’s robust framework, encapsulated in the QM Rubric, evaluates various facets of online course design through eight categories, including learning objectives, alignment, assessment strategies, instructional materials, learner interaction, course technology, learner support, accessibility, and usability.

Feedback 122

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 122

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. Teachers can select how the feedback process will unfold. The system guides pupils through how to offer constructive feedback to their peers.

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Writing Feedback Peer Review Plagiarism 112

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before adding IXL Math to the state’s grant list, the Action Center and Utah Education Policy Center (UEPC) rigorously evaluated the platform to determine its efficacy. IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish.

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Math STEM Learning Textbooks 285

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? By that time, the teachable moment is gone.

Writing 189

Writing Technology Essay Feedback 189

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Student performance in math and English language arts on spring state test scores in 2023 went up by 2 percentage points from the prior year, highlighting slow academic recovery after the pandemic. District leaders also developed plans in science and English language arts that focus on new approaches to learning to boost student achievement.

Schools 268

Schools Math Testing Intelligence 268

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

Instead of spending valuable class time on lecturing, teachers can focus on providing targeted feedback, conducting informative polls, leading small group instruction, scaffolding learning, and tailoring learning opportunities to individual student needs. Flipped instruction does not need to be relegated to homework to be a powerful strategy.

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Lecturing Knowledge Assignments Writing 433

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Finally, the Commissioner of Education assessed the state and district reviewer evaluations, public feedback and cost of the materials before giving approval. K-12 English language arts materials were the focus of the 2020-2021 year. Members of the public were also able to review the materials online for two weeks.

Education 256

Education Blended Learning Learning Peer Review 256

Faculty Focus

MAY 7, 2024

QM’s robust framework, encapsulated in the QM Rubric, evaluates various facets of online course design through eight categories, including learning objectives, alignment, assessment strategies, instructional materials, learner interaction, course technology, learner support, accessibility, and usability.

Feedback 111

Feedback Course Design Instructors Education 111

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

There is truly nothing more powerful–or that grows your practice morethan watching yourself on video, and the use of this technology will help our teachers engage in more meaningful self-reflection while receiving targeted feedback from coaches and coordinators.

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Teaching Education Learning Interdisciplinary 273

eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

What Contributed to COVID Learning Loss in Indiana’s Schools? ,” a recently published study from Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER), utilized Indiana Learning Evaluation Assessment Readiness Network (ILEARN) test scores from Spring 2019 to Spring 2021 as a measure of learning for Indiana public K-12 schools.

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Study Testing Schools Learning 246

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience.

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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 210

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

They begin scrolling through headlines recently posted in their RSS feeds , some written in English or their heritage language, some based on their interests in soccer or technology, and others based on assigned feeds, such as YouthVoices or NPR. We do” can be challenging to enact when only one person can hold the pencil during partner work.

English 167

English Writing Feedback Language 167

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

All entries are reviewed by a diverse group of judges and evaluated on their creativity, scientific knowledge, and communication skills. Available in English and Spanish, these lesson bundles have everything educators need to seamlessly incorporate data into their curriculum. Subaru of America, Inc.

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Education STEM Grades Art 294

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

From personalized feedback to progress tracking, AI enables students to reflect on their learning journey, refine their strategies, and develop a deeper understanding of their strengths and areas for improvement. Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 169

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2024

Why do we need a required writing course if AI can do everything outside stakeholders want such a course to teach? ,” asked Melissa Nicolas, a professor of English at Washington State University, in an op-ed last year. The student could say, once they get the feedback, ‘No, that's not really what I want to do. Mills says.

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Writing Instructors Essay English 205

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Instead, we become smart as a result of hard work, productive effort, and feedback. They need to learn how to evaluate their own effort, set ambitious, but achievable goals, and come up with alternative learning strategies when they struggle—rather than simply “try harder.” But with feedback and guidance, they get better.

Schools 168

Schools Beliefs Evaluation Feedback 168

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2019

Sessions like these are often a firehose of show and tell with no time to reflect and evaluate. Are these strategies accessible to English learners and are there options for translation to languages other than English? After: Evaluating and Sharing Your Learning When the session is over, it is easy to not fill out an evaluation.

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Evaluation Feedback Participation English 158

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2023

The integration of AI tools in English language arts (ELA) instruction has emerged as a potentially transformative pedagogical approach that could redefine the traditional landscape of education. To me, the AI that is currently being developed is to English teachers what the calculator was to math teachers during the age of the slide rule.

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Language Languages Art Teachers 148

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In addition to the language generated by the students themselves in their projects, I found that a huge amount of English was being generated as students shared tips, accessed online guides and built a common understanding. The game had given them a reason and a context, not only for using English, but also for activating 21st-century skills.

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Language Languages Skills English 165

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2016

They evaluated the technology’s impact on student learning, impact on reader identity, and perceptions of the technology. percent are English Language Learners (ELL). As teacher feedback on student annotations increased, so did the amount of minutes students read on the platform. percent minority, with 88.8

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Study Middle School Middle School Feedback 175

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The theory is that courseware has the potential to improve student outcomes because it tends to offer students personalized instruction and instant feedback on their work, Jones-Davis says. Leaders of the project aim to evaluate products twice a year and then update the site accordingly. history surveys.

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STEM Instructors Study History 187

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

According to Rocky Bragg, a high school English teacher in the district, this policy has created some havoc. He’s consistently seen high attendance in synchronous online classes since the school closed, and almost all his English students submitted the epic poems they’d been working on for the last few weeks.

Teaching 218

Teaching Students Learning English 218

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

An Interactive Program Rich in Educational Content Experience AI offers a series of six lessons and additional educational resources in French and English, which are tailored to high school teaching and enable students to explore the basics of AI, understand its practical applications and acquire essential AI and computational thinking skills.

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Intelligence Exams Ethics Learning Styles 256