Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. link] The post Five Tips for Helping Post-Secondary Students Overcome Failure appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress. How this leads to cheating : When students are under significant stress or pressure, cheating may feel like a way to protect themselves from the potential consequences of failure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

This essay isnt about whether I agree with that principle or why people resign. No, this is about how challenging it is to deal with the shame of experiencing resignations and how I am learning to cope with moments of failure in leadership. My colleague was supportive and understanding. As school leaders, we go through this.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group. Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S. I asked them.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

In some cases the very technologies that were intended to improve writing, like automatic-essay grading software, have backfired by encouraging a kind of paint-by-numbers approach to writing. That’s why the subtitle of my book is “killing the five-paragraph essay and other necessities.” Part of the problem, he says, is technology.

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Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

The Value of Failure In this kind of classroom, you see a lot of failure, just as you would on the playground. Rethinking Assessment Evaluating play-based learning isn’t as simple as grading a worksheet or even an essay. At the social level, you see conflicts between kids who both want the same toy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow. This essay is a call to action, a reflection of my journey and an invitation to all who believe in the transformative power of math education. This shift in mindset allowed her to tackle challenging problems with confidence and curiosity.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly emerges: 2024 was the year of the personal essay. Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

When we think about this second piece, it’s easy to see how helping students shift their way of thinking can be a difficult concept to teach; after all, mindset isn’t a concrete skill that can be measured with a pop quiz or an essay. So, how exactly does personalized learning fit into the equation?

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Failure Learning Achievement Essay 138

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer. Tell students your expectations and other pertinent information. You may offer an example or rubric if those are available.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Failure to appreciate these points will result in personalized learning products more likely to hinder than help students. Psychology and the real world: Essays illustrating fundamental contributions to society, 56-64. Do Learners Really Know Best? References Bjork, E. & Bjork, R. a, Dunlosky, J., & & Kornell, N.

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Education Evaluation Failure Essay 155

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!, or another that you prefer. You may offer an example or rubric if those are available.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

In a competitive school like Latin, not being able to climb up the proficiency ladder after a year’s worth of language study is interpreted as failure. Can we have one more essay practice?” Things are bit trickier given our school’s culture. Every year when the language class placement is announced, you can feel the worry in the air.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! In our fourth year-end personal statement roundup, we’ve again asked thought leaders to share their outlooks on education, but with a twist.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2023

The use of generative AI — the type of AI that can create original content, like essays or reports, based on its training data — only intensifies this feeling. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure. Recognizing and addressing these fears is crucial in smoothly navigating a major shift in education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

That will continue the cycle of failure. For those of us tasked with overcoming massive learning gaps and bringing success to at-risk students who have known nothing else but failure, this type of compromise might be the only way to do it. Suddenly there were silver linings.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Or a policy might say failure to properly cite sources is plagiarism. Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student essays. For example, an academic integrity policy might say receiving outside assistance is cheating, but students are rarely asked about assistance from parents, tutors, or apps. link] Fleckenstein, J.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. It may be a Canva templates, Storyboard That!, or another that you prefer. You may offer an example or rubric if those are available.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the team found, small but critically timed interventions like this can make the difference between success and failure. In a field study involving schools across the United States, teachers gave students the opportunity to revise an essay they’d written. But not just any feedback.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. When problem solving followed by instruction works: Evidence for productive failure.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. When problem solving followed by instruction works: Evidence for productive failure.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

It encourages students to learn the material, relearn weak areas, and removes the fear-of-failure brain freeze that many students experience on test day. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay. Study.com allows multiple attempts to pass quizzes and exams, something I’ve been doing for years. UWorld’s Unique SAT Prep Site.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

As the team found, small but critically timed interventions like this can make the difference between success and failure. In a field study involving schools across the United States, teachers gave students the opportunity to revise an essay they’d written. But not just any feedback.

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Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer. Tell students your expectations and other pertinent information.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 76

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. It may be one like Storyboard That! Pixton , or another that you prefer. Tell students your expectations and other pertinent information.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 76

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. How to Offer Choice in Online Classrooms Project Formats: Let students choose how to present what theyve learned, a podcast, infographic, comic strip, video, or written essay. It reframed failure as part of progress and made every learner feel seen. The result?

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2022

They penned deeply moving essays that gave us a glimpse inside the experimental successes and failures that defined their careers and courageously reflected on their experiences confronting trauma, teaching inclusive sex education and drawing from Indigenous knowledge.

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Education Failure Essay Ethics 175

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

I described him as a “listening poet” in an essay and my professor called me in and asked, “Can you tell me more about this?” I was drawn in by how Hughes was trying to play with music on the page and started trying to describe that. When I got to college and then graduate school, I found other writers, most notably Sterling Brown.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2018

Sometimes teachers unintentionally set kids up for failure by making assumptions about the prior knowledge and experience they bring into the classroom like presuming that all students grow up in a home with conversation about the political climate in our country, or that they’re all born digital natives with an iPhone in hand.

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