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MARCH 12, 2025

This school year is unique as we just opened a new building with over 450 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, consolidating three different elementary and middle campuses from different neighborhoods across New York. This essay isnt about whether I agree with that principle or why people resign.

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Failure Teachers Schools Learning 93

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

They may have set goals such as getting a high grade in a course, graduating with honors, landing a specific internship, or getting accepted into a graduate program. 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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Failure Students Achievement Evaluation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

They may have set goals such as getting a high grade in a course, graduating with honors, landing a specific internship, or getting accepted into a graduate program. 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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Failure Students Achievement Evaluation 98

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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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 158

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. Warner: Students may have gotten good grades on the kinds of writing they've been asked to do, either in school or on a standardized assessment.

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Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. Some folks commented: “I have dyscalculia…When I was in the 3rd grade, my teacher yelled at me and said, 'How do you not understand this yet?!' She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

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

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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Failure Art Essay Math 166

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. Should States Force Schools to Enroll Them?

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Essay Disabilities Multiple Choice Questions Math 115

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. Tell students your expectations and other pertinent information. Teams score one point per correct answer.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

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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 lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The pressure students feel to get high grades and the pressure for teachers to give them are both real. In classrooms where teachers emphasize performance goals (errorless performance on tasks, points, and grades), students are more likely to cheat. Or a policy might say failure to properly cite sources is plagiarism.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Failure to appreciate these points will result in personalized learning products more likely to hinder than help students. satisfaction, engagement, grades, mindsets, attitudes, persistence, views, logins, clicks, etc. Psychology and the real world: Essays illustrating fundamental contributions to society, 56-64.

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Education Evaluation Failure Essay 159

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

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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Two weeks into the school year, I have students who are still struggling with the diagnostic test, which is designed to see where the students are in reading comprehension and writing for 11th grade literature. That will continue the cycle of failure. This was due to my own growth in mastery-based grading and curriculum development.

Failure 111

Failure Learning Testing Assignments 111

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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 lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 122

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Frequent assessment, on the other hand, offers students the opportunity to practice applying knowledge regularly, knowing that a poor grade on a quiz won’t jeopardize their ability to pass a course. As the team found, small but critically timed interventions like this can make the difference between success and failure.

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Study.com also offers a special (fee-based) Teacher Edition where educators can set up five virtual classrooms with up to 50 students in each, share class-themed videos, assign lessons and quizzes as homework, grade student work, print out worksheets, and get detailed reports on student progress. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay.

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 83

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Frequent assessment, on the other hand, offers students the opportunity to practice applying knowledge regularly, knowing that a poor grade on a quiz won’t jeopardize their ability to pass a course. As the team found, small but critically timed interventions like this can make the difference between success and failure.

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Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

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. Students cheat for good grades. References Anderman, E. 2015, May 20). The Conversation.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

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. Students cheat for good grades. References Anderman, E. 2015, May 20). The Conversation.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

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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 lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success.

Activities 76

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 lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect. If I had time, I’d play it every grading period. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Failure 76

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

When students feel they have control, learning becomes something theyre doing for themselves, not just for a grade. Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. Real School Example At K12 Schools , a Grade 6 English teacher introduced a Book Trailer project. ” Students laughed, but the analogy stuck.

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

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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Technology Teaching Failure Essay 121