Essay Failure Writing 
eSchool News
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Ninth-grade English was a paradox for me—both the best and worst year for helping me learn to write. Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay. The outcome?
eSchool News
JANUARY 30, 2023
Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Speaking and writing are about producing the language, requiring a different mental muscle from learners. Writing is essential for professional and long-distance communication.
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eSchool News
JUNE 27, 2024
It could be a video, a photo essay, a 3D rendering, or even an interpretive dance performance. Educators talk about writing across the curriculum–what about arts across the curriculum? If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. Why maker education?
Edsurge
APRIL 2, 2019
Writing is more important than ever, but many of today’s students are lousy at it. Warner has been teaching writing at colleges for more than 20 years. And he’s written two books on the topic, including his most recent, called “ Why They Can’t Write. John Warner has some ideas about why that is, and how to fix it.
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. Focus on growth, not scores.
eSchool News
APRIL 3, 2025
Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress.
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. Young students may not be able to write about their projects yet, but they can use technology.
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