Teach Hub

JUNE 27, 2025

When you scroll through social media, you’ll see perfect grades, perfect families, perfect everything. For example, if they’re writing an essay, help them focus on just the intro first. This saying perfectly sums up what we are trying to instill in our youth, especially in our struggling students. Instead, break things down.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) 10 8th Grade Social-Emotional Writing Prompts Social-emotional learning is a way for students to find their place in the world around them while staying in touch with their own wants and needs. Yes, even math! What would you do?

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John Spenser

JUNE 4, 2025

In this piece, I share a conversation with Mike, a fifth-grade teacher whos feeling the weight of tech distractions, AI-written essays, student apathy, and the pressure to do it all. Teaching has always been challenging, but right now it feels heavier. The usual quick fixes.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

With these engaging 7th grade writing prompts, students will dive into a world of self-expression. They’re literary detectives, diving into research and using evidence to create well-organized essays. They’re literary detectives, diving into research and using evidence to create well-organized essays.

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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. Ensure evidence of integrity before giving marks or grades.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Creative Expression of Learning: Not every child shines through essays or multiple-choice tests—and that’s okay. Learning to advocate for themselves and ask questions is a valuable skill that will serve them well throughout their education and beyond.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority. In *Collected Essays* (Ed.). It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. These habits of mind can create emotional volatility and negative outcomes. Ellington, Trans.).

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority. In *Collected Essays* (Ed.). It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. These habits of mind can create emotional volatility and negative outcomes. Ellington, Trans.).

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 18, 2025

Veterans Day Craft By TNB Creations Grades: K-6th This seven-page craft takes about an hour to complete and includes a picture for students to color, along with space to write a letter. America the Brave Veterans Day Voting and Elections By Reagan Tunstall Grades: K-2nd Celebrate both Veterans Day and Election Day by creating a lapbook.

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

MAY 28, 2025

From identifying credible sources to using information inside an essay, its a process that takes a lot of practice. This doesnt have to be a full-on essay because you havent talked in-depth about introductions, thesis statements, and so on. Or take some time to conference with students about their projects or essays.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Psychology “Do Now” Writing Prompts & Slides By Loosli Learning Grades: 9th-12th Subjects: Psychology Ideal for psychology classes or any subject focused on critical thinking, these do now writing prompts are an intriguing way to start the day. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Describe the perfect summer.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2017

When teachers used digital educational games in the classroom, students raised test scores by more than half a letter grade in only three weeks, according to a study from researchers at Vanderbilt University and partners at Legends of Learning , a research-driven educational game platform.

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Teach Hub

MAY 19, 2025

This will help you spot which students are getting it and which are not, before its time to grade something. Consider focusing less on grades and more on comments that push students to reflect and revise. Plus, it helps demystify grading. Here are a few ideas that work really well in classrooms.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2017

We started in 5 th grade when my colleague got a Khan Academy grant to purchase 12 Chromebooks to supplement the Chromebooks our school provided. We have 1:1 Chromebooks for each student in 4 th and 5 th grade, and we’re introducing 1:1 for 3 rd grade this year. Chromebook : You can’t have a 1:1 classroom without devices.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

Over the last two years, I’ve moved further and further away from traditional grading. I’ve blogged about grading for mastery of skills instead of the accumulation of points and ditching my traditional grade book in favor of an ongoing assessment document. Grade Interviews. They begin with a claim.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 24, 2015

For the last two years, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the traditional approach to assessing students and reporting grades. This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. Don’t Grade Everything.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 10, 2016

At the start of this year, I wrote a blog titled “ Grading for Mastery and Redesigning My Gradebook ,” which detailed my desire to rethink assessment in my classroom. I was tired of students always asking me about points and grades, instead of asking me about how they could improve their skills.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

This year I have posted several blogs about grading and assessment. I encouraged teachers to stop taking grading home for two simple reasons: Grading in isolation robs us of the opportunity to have conversations with students as we assess their work and, ultimately, makes feedback one-sided and less effective.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2017

Since January, I have not brought a single stack of digital papers home to grade! During that window of time, I was able to give every student written feedback on the section of his/her essay they were currently working on. ” I’m here to update everyone. It’s been amazing!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

More than that: If students often ask ChatGPT to generate essays or make those essays longer , their writing and communication skills will suffer. Possessing the ability to craft coherent essays, students negate the value of writing as a process responsible for critical thinking. Will it have the potential to get a high grade?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2024

Creative writing techniques can make essays more engaging and original while maintaining the required objective structure. However, it’s possible to use creative writing ideas to help you come up with a unique essay. However, essays are more objective, as they require facts and evidence to support your claims.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

You can allow them to write an argumentative essay, 2) prepare and engage in a live debate with a classmate, or 3) record an argumentative speech. argumentative essay, live debate, or recorded speech). Suppose you align the criteria with the learning objectives you crafted from your target standards.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

Exploring diverse writing exercises, experimenting with different perspectives, and seeking inspiration from various sources can cultivate creativity and enhance essay writing skills, with the option to have professionals write me an essay providing valuable insights and further honing one’s craft. Start small.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the time it takes to score and give feedback on student work deterring many writing teachers from assigning lengthier writing tasks, and with the long turnaround time most students wait to receive grades and feedback, there is significant timesaving and learning potential in an AI helping grade student work. Figure 1: Teacher v.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. In this blog post, we’ll unlock the secrets to successful essay writing and share 10 proven tips to help you level up your writing game. What is Effective Essay Writing?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 25, 2017

In my last blog post titled, “ Stop Taking Grading Home ,” I explained how I use the Station Rotation Model to provide students with real-time feedback as they work instead of taking grading home. I remember saying to my co-teacher, “We should email the parents of students who’ve fallen behind on their essays.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2023

Teaching Critical Thinking Through Essay Examples: Unlocking Minds We’re exploring a fun classroom adventure where teachers teach us to think carefully and write good essays using examples. We’ll see how these great teachers turn simple essays into smart thinking tools. Why Essays? It’s a way of life.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Using technology to score essays is nothing new. 20 years ago as a student.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Key points: ChatGPT is here to stay, and it’s wise to now consider it a part of learning In fact, every assignment moving forward must be graded with ChatGPT in mind See related article: How educators can navigate AI-driven plagiarism You may have heard of ChatGPT. How are teachers supposed to grade these efforts?

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Historically, we’ve mandated students attend school, but we’ve incentivized them to do well by rewarding them with grades, GPAs and class rankings. In a pre-COVID-19 world, the logic was simple: You get good grades to get into a good college. But thanks to COVID-19, grades have suddenly lost their meaning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2023

Many students dread IB essays. Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. One of them is the extended essay. Hence, you need all the help you can get.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

Many teachers collect homework and take piles of student work home to grade. Homework is designed to be practice, so I’ve never understood why it is graded and often becomes punitive. If they are writing a formal essay, they might bring their introduction paragraphs. 3 Homework Check & Review. 4 Real-Time Feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Teacher 1 provides targeted instruction based on each group’s needs: Group 1 (Below Grade Level): Students work on identifying key details in a simplified fable with additional visual supports. Group 2 (On Grade Level): Students read a standard-level folktale and discuss the central message.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback. We evaluated one writing platform that gave students immediate, AI-generated feedback, with unlimited opportunities to use the feedback to revise and resubmit their essays for better scores.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2020

Sometimes, teaching is more like bombardment: Grading hundreds of essays, placating disgruntled parents, accommodating learning needs, sweating out the principals’ nerve-wracking classroom observation. And then there are the stressors of life beyond the classroom. Being a teacher can be tough.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Input Relevant Information: Provide the AI chatbot with relevant details such as the subject area, grade level, and any specific requirements or preferences you have for the task. Can you suggest engaging activities for my grade class focusing on ? Please provide some project-based learning ideas for grade students to explore.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 9, 2019

Sometimes I didn’t even know what the format of the final exam would be…essay, multiple choice, or short answer. It also saves teachers time because they do not have to grade every question they develop for every child. I spent hours reviewing notes that spanned an entire semester because it was all “fair game.”

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